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Nick Eden
pheasnt1
Oct 2, 2004 12:15 pm
... Definitely. This is chaos we're talking about. Sometimes those broo will be writhing about and bursting out in much the same way as John Hurt's alien....
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Rob
lamorak33
Oct 2, 2004 3:48 pm
Hi all I fancy myself as a bit of a Glorantha fan - but what is the difference between a Lunar and a Dara Happan? Cheers Rob...
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indrodar
Oct 2, 2004 4:00 pm
... At the risk of opening a completely different can of worms, "What's the difference between a Russian and a Soviet?" Dara Happan is a geographical/racial...
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Rob
lamorak33
Oct 2, 2004 6:05 pm
Well, you see thats what I thought. But when I open the ILH1 and look at the imperial census I see 12% Lunar and 50% Dara Happan, which gives me a bit of a...
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Matthew Cole
morkhelek2000
Oct 2, 2004 6:12 pm
What Gloranthan publications do you have access to? ... From: Rob [mailto:robert_m_davis@...] Sent: 02 October 2004 19:06 To:...
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Jens Haeusser
jhaeusser
Oct 2, 2004 6:17 pm
On that line of thought, I've been wanting to play an actual Lunar (as opposed to Dara Happan) character from Silver Shadow/Glamour. Does anyone have a Lunar...
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Rob
lamorak33
Oct 2, 2004 6:20 pm
All of them!...
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Bruce Ferrie
dbferrie
Oct 2, 2004 6:22 pm
... I always what the 12% is referring to is the people who are in explicitly *Lunar* cults - things like the Seven Mothers, Rufelza, etc. as opposed to Dara...
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Rob
lamorak33
Oct 2, 2004 6:23 pm
Hi Jens Does page 17 of the Imperial Lunar Handbook 1 answer your question? The bit on being an Imperial Citizen. The first paragraph. Regards Rob ... (as ......
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Rob
lamorak33
Oct 2, 2004 6:27 pm
... etc. ... So the 12% is the percentage that would refer to Imperial Citizens? That works I guess. Regards Rob...
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Bruce Ferrie
dbferrie
Oct 2, 2004 6:31 pm
I just noticed a typo. Please insert "thought" into my last message between the "always" and the "what". Please accept my apologies for this thoughtless...
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Jens Haeusser
jhaeusser
Oct 2, 2004 6:31 pm
I assume that the Lunar Homeland Keyword skill are actually different from Dara Happan skills, incorporating the ones for being a Lunar Citizen. I'd think that...
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Rob
lamorak33
Oct 2, 2004 6:42 pm
... Spot on Jens. I await the answer then of the cognoscenti as I run a Heortling game in Dragon Pass so I don't know the lunars in terms of character...
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Mark Galeotti
theunspokenword
Oct 2, 2004 7:58 pm
There is and will be no 'Lunar Homeland Keyword' -- membership of the Lunar Way is a conscious decision (OK, many will have been brought up in it by Lunar...
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Nick Brooke
moonbroth
Oct 3, 2004 11:40 am
... Not quite. See the first half of my brief piece on "The Old Gods and the Lunar Way", at: http://www.etyries.com/moonie/oldgods.htm You don't *have* to...
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Nick Brooke
moonbroth
Oct 3, 2004 11:42 am
... You can certainly steal my flavour text from "Life of Moonson": http://www.etyries.com/moonson/cultures.htm#silvershadow Cheers, Nick...
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Nick Brooke
moonbroth
Oct 3, 2004 11:47 am
... What about the Seven Mothers' Orphanages? (NB: I wanted to do a "What The Mothers Told Me" piece for HQ Voices, but we went with Tarshite Dad instead, who...
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Mark Galeotti
theunspokenword
Oct 3, 2004 12:11 pm
Hi Nick ... Absolutely, that's a nice example of these exceptions. Even then, though, the TN orphanages are not homogenous units; there will be all sorts of...
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markmohrfield
Oct 3, 2004 4:41 pm
... to ... What about the Silver Shadow satrapy and/or Glamour? If it doesn't have it's own keyword, shouldn't it at least have an "additional native ability"...
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Henk Langeveld
hla
Oct 3, 2004 5:55 pm
... Not necessesarily a long time in this particular case... ... Henk...
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donald@...
donaldroddy
Oct 3, 2004 11:29 pm
... What's the consensus on how difficult it is to progress within the Empire without worshipping the Lunar gods. There's quite a bit of stuff about which...
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Roderick and Ellen Ro...
rjremr1
Oct 4, 2004 12:04 am
... It is quite common for people to be "initiate level" in both a "native god" (Dara Happan, Rinliddi, whatever) and a Lunar god appropriate to their ...
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Paul Andrew King
strangemask
Oct 4, 2004 7:42 am
... It seems pretty clear to me that the nations that are combined into the Lunar Empire have a good deal of autonomy in internal affairs. So the top rank...
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Mark Galeotti
theunspokenword
Oct 4, 2004 2:03 pm
It's also worth noting that there are some circumstances in which following the Lunar Way may be anoutright disadvantage: remember that the DH culture in...
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Oliver D. Bernuetz
bernuetz
Oct 4, 2004 9:08 pm
Hi there, Saw the movie Hero, starring Jet Li on Saturday. Very pretty movie, the sets, costumes (well, except maybe the obviously styrofoam shields in one...
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Jeff Kyer
jeffkyer
Oct 4, 2004 10:33 pm
Brand Robbins has an excellent example of how Ranged Combat can be resolved. It is located on the Issaries website at ...
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Matthew Cole
morkhelek2000
Oct 5, 2004 11:56 am
I'd like to back Jeff up on this. I believe that Narrator Advice should be a permanent section and that it could link with the burgeoning narrator help section...
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Nils Weinander
nils_w
Oct 5, 2004 8:38 pm
... That is the intention. Provided of course that Issaries get more good submissions for it. ... Will check that out! ...
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Rob
lamorak33
Oct 6, 2004 9:43 pm
Hi all We are discussing Tatius on the Whitewall group. We know from KoS that he is a Yelm Imperator type guy. Does that preclude him from being an Imperial...
