I've been reading a lot of Gloranthan material lately in preperation for a Heroquest game. I've seen some mentions of Dream Magic and Mysticism. I was just...
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Hi folks, just thought peeps here might be interested in the latest show in the BBC Radio 4's wonderful In Our Time series about the history of ideas. It's on...
Guys, you'll want to see this movie! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arn_%E2%80%93_The_Knight_Templar It's sort of like what Kingdom of Heaven could have been if...
Hello, I'm asking for the collective memory of the lists to help me out. Way back about 95/96, Ian and I wrote a small freeform about the Cinsina tribal...
Where did the Lanksti Orlanthi come from? Sources seem to vary on this. Are they Vingkotlings? Did they come from Talastar? Or perhaps they migrated northward...
... I let augment only/common magic be "used" as a defence (i.e. the Blindness Averting Gesture feat which opposes any magical attempt to blind the possessor...
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the 2nd version you mentioned many moon ago. I still play KoDP, it makes me happy. Such a great game. You really have talent and you should try your hand at it...
Following up an idea for a scenario I started wondering about how the followers of Great Sister fit into the Chain of Reverence and the rest of the Lunar...
The last three messages (dated late Feb.) were just brought to my attention by Yahoogroups, which is why they appear a week and a half late. RR He was born...
Dear Gray Sages, In my attempt to build a sartarite campaign on the architecture of "Orlanth is Dead", my ramblings lead to this esoteric question : If Orlanth...
... I find this an interesting topic in and of itself so I thought I'd split it off from the Lodril discussion. I'm quite curious about what trends there are...
Hey, all! I managed to pick up a second-hand copy of Runequest Cities. Avalon Hill version, 4th edition. Turns out my copy has some blank pages. 26/27 30/31 ...
... The privilege of idleness for the upper-class members of a society has added importance to the dragon-newts perhaps? Does this mean that they lack...
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Different question - why is Umathela named Umathela? :) I am guessing there is a mythic reason, but I don't know what! cj x [Non-text portions of this message...
I'm increasingly finding pdf's of books useful for rapid searching.Are there are any plans ot make these books from the Stafford Library available on pdf...
An excellent image of the Red Moon: http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080222.html -- ____________________________________________________________ Nils...
Hello all, I was wondering about what went on in Darra Happa during the Silver Age (i.e. when Heort did his thing amongst certain Orlanthi peoples, "before" I...
Dear potential Tentacles guest, we know that a lot of people out there have found various reasons to NEVER attend a Tentacles Convention. For all of you who...
My dear fellow gloranthian geeks, I've got a simple question for your omniscience : can you tell me who / what are : a) the "Four Fighting Storms", b) the...
(I'm talking capital-H-Heroes here, not euphemism for player character). In the HQ core rules it talks about typical magical abilities/levels for children of...
Hello. Hmm. I was just reading about the Lambton Worm, a myth I'd not thought about since childhood. It struck me as rather a nice central conceit for a...
Hello Friends Today (February 9th) is Gregs 60th birthday! Happy Birthday, Greg! Makes you that fact to a "Gloranthan Elder" or a "Gloranthan Great Old One"? ...
