I think that's so. At least in the sense that one can go quite a few raids without fatality, not that they _can't_ get very nasty and bloody, either by intent or by cock-up. Partly this is they can be deliberately sneaky, hit and run type affairs (what KoDP calls Cattle Raids, mildly confusingly), and partly as the showier affairs may indeed be a lot of bluff and posturing, relative to the degree of actual mayhem. (This is almost a redundant statement, as applied to almost any theatre of human physical conflict...)
Lastly, perhaps combat in Glorantha is as mild-mannered as HW portrays it to be? <gdr>
Cheers,
Alex.
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