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2354
... Weave Rug? Is that supposed to be a magical ability? Are you sure about this? If this is so then magic defence is usually much, much lower than offence. I...
valkoharja
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Jun 1, 2007
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2355
... Doesn't have to be - the rules state "beings resist enemy magic with their best relevant ability or keyword, whether mundane or magical." Even if Weave Rug...
Roderick and Ellen Ro...
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2356
History of the Heortling Peoples is now available from Warehouse 23. Go here to order: http://www.warehouse23.com/item.html?id=ISS3009 --Peter Metcalfe...
Peter Metcalfe
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2357
... Robertson" <rjremr@...> wrote: <snip> ... Thanks. I wonder if I was remembering Hero Wars logic, or just confused... -Adept...
valkoharja
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... Probably confused by one of the many house rules people have posted. RR He was born with the gift of laughter and the sense that the world was mad R....
Roderick and Ellen Ro...
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2359
Speaking of which, (and this may need to to the Rules list)... is magic only supposed to ever be resisted by a personal ability (best relevant) or 14? For...
L C
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2360
... Long answer moved to the HeroQuest Rules list: HeroQuest-rules@yahoogroups.com Short Answer: Usually, yes. RR. He was born with the gift of laughter and...
Roderick and Ellen Ro...
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2361
Does anyone know what sort of warships the Holy Country uses? Men of the Sea says on p47 that the Esrolians use triremes. However on p43 in the section on War...
danhalberd
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Jun 3, 2007
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2362
... At a guess someone is using "trireme" inaccurately to describe galleys with multiple decks of oars. However a galley with only fifty oarsmen to ten...
donald@...
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Jun 4, 2007
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2363
... If you say that you know for a fact that in Glorantha, there is no such thing as fire-loving trees, and that aldryami has about the same relationship to...
danguillou
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2364
Hi ... such thing as fire-loving ... uz, then IŽll take your ... in common with our ... the cycle of life and death. I agree with Dan. Even if only in a...
Rob
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2365
YGWV ... In my Glorantha there are no fire-living elves, but they nearly all accept the fact that fire is part of the life and death cycle. Fire is a power of...
Greg
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Jun 4, 2007
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2366
... I think Greg meant to type "love", not "live" above. In which case, wow, I would have thought Greg had met an emo goth kid by now. Mike Dawson...
Mike Dawson
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2367
... There are creepy fire-using Uz (Zoraki), and creepy death-worshipping humans (Humakti, Sharsgashi, etc.). Creepy fire-living Aldryami doesn't seem any...
Andrew Solovay
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Jun 4, 2007
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YGWV ... That is correct. ... I have, of course, and they are all posers. :-) They have nothing on my youth when I truly loved Death dearly. -- Sincerely, Greg...
Greg
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2369
Reasonable? This all sounds like great fun!...
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2370
YGWV ... As I said, anything is possible. And, just as with ZZ or Humakt, such elves would be in a tiny minority--i.e.- creepy and strange oddballs if they...
Greg
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2371
... By "there" do you mean The Green Age? ... I have this notion that Aldryami dread (not fear, really) fire because to them it is like Nysalorean...
Brian Curley
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2372
... I've often wondered about how the Aldryami manage to maintain both some kind of identification with "their" breed of tree (white oak, yellow pine, redwood,...
Mike Dawson
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2373
Brian Curley ... Glarking from context, I think by "there" he means "death". In Glorantha, plants die every winter (for deciduous plants) or every night (for ...
Andrew Solovay
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2374
... Hmmm, I am very unsure about this. Little plants do not depend on fire for reproduction, AFAIK (but it has been 20 years since I took my last Botany course...
Paolo Guccione
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2375
... Probably in Hegua or Bogani (both on the Pamaltelan Coast). What I was objecting to was the idea of a major forest having an unaldryami attitude towards...
Peter Metcalfe
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Jun 5, 2007
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2376
... Firewood Aldryami is a better name. The Redwood Aldryami are in Prax and nobody seems to have noticed their fire-loving behaviour before. On the...
Peter Metcalfe
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2377
Dan ... Plague, Floods and Famine are all part of the average gloranthan's cycle of life and death. Do they love it or even like it? No. Elves have even less...
Peter Metcalfe
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2378
... They fight. If it's not "elf Fights elf and Dryad chokes runner" then the warfare is ecological in character, with promotion of parasites and blights to...
Peter Metcalfe
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Jun 5, 2007
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2379
YGWV ... No, I mean the Underworld. ... This is not how I envision it. I am not sure what you mean here about Nysaloran illumination, but nonetheless, fire is,...
Greg
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Jun 5, 2007
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2380
YGWV ... There is always a parallel between death and sleep, though they are not exactly the same. Think of Hypnos and Thanatos as brothers, etc. But the...
Greg
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2381
YGWV ... I think the answer to this apparent duality is that it's not really a duality. The collective is foremost--individuality is secondary. Note that...
Greg
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2382
YGWV ... I did not intend to imply that little plants depend upon fire for reproduction. Just that their life cycles are short, and their expectations (if ...
Greg
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2383
YGWV ... As do the deep Gloranthan forests ... Indeed, of making them as well ... AGreed -- Sincerely, Greg Stafford Issaries, Inc. 1942 Channing Way, #204 ...
Greg
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