From: RuneQuest-Request@Glorantha.Holland.Sun.COM (RQ Digest Maintainer) To: RuneQuest@Glorantha.Holland.Sun.COM (Daily automated RQ-Digest) Subject: RuneQuest Daily, Wed, 06 Oct 1993, part 3 Reply-To: RuneQuest@Glorantha.Holland.Sun.COM (RuneQuest Daily) Sender: RuneQuest-Request@Glorantha.Holland.Sun.COM Precedence: junk The RuneQuest Daily and RuneQuest Digest deal with the subjects of Avalon Hill's RPG and Greg Stafford's world of Glorantha. Send submissions and followup to "RuneQuest@Glorantha.Holland.Sun.COM", they will automatically be included in a next issue. Try to change the Subject: line from the default Re: RuneQuest Daily... on replying. Selected articles may also appear in a regular Digest. If you want to submit articles to the Digest only, contact the editor at RuneQuest-Digest-Editor@Glorantha.Holland.Sun.COM. Send enquiries and Subscription Requests to the editor: RuneQuest-Request@Glorantha.Holland.Sun.COM (Henk Langeveld) --------------------- From: gal502@cscgpo.anu.edu.au (Graeme A Lindsell) Subject: Comments and Errors Message-ID: <9310060304.AA09744@cscgpo.anu.edu.au> Date: 6 Oct 93 13:04:22 GMT X-RQ-ID: 1923 This post contains a couple of small spoilers for "Dorastor: Land of Fun^H^H^HDoom" and "Shadows on the Borderlands". C442196@MIZZOU1.missouri.edu (Newton Hughes) writes: >A couple more apparent errors in the Dorastor book: >1) There's a Humakti (Platewalker) listed as having the Berserk spell. What's wrong with that? Both GoG and the long Humakti cult write-up in TOTRM 5 list Berserk as a cult spell, though the latter restricts its use to favoured initiates or Swords. Have these rules been changed recently? >The reviews posted here haven't done justice to the interior illustra- >tions, especially the woodcuts, which are terrific. I was disappointed >in the cover art; I would much rather see good b/w art there than this >crummy Dobyskian stuff. Agreed, the interior illustrations are very good. I thought the cover was crummy too until I read it was meant to be a picture of a stained- glass window: once you know that you can see how much effort went into making it look like one. I'm not sure it was a wise choice for the cover, since most people react badly on first seeing it. >I never heard of a Real World god who drew such a distinction; usually >their cultures consider both trading and thievery to be dishonorable >activities. This is why I asked if there were any Real World trading gods, trading has usually been frowned upon by aristocratic cultures, presumably because wealthy merchants are seen as threats to their power. Here are a couple of magic related errors I saw recently in Dorastor and SotBL: i) The Slime Broos in Dorastor mostly have Tap Power, and those that have are given MP = 2 x POW, the maximum you can Tap up to. However, none of them have more than 1 Free Int, and none of them know Duration, so accoding to the write-up of Tap, the MP's they have in excess of their POW would only last 10 minutes, the duration of the spell. Are the Slime Broos meant to keep victims around for Tapping, and then cast 7 or 8 Tap Pow 1's before an ambush, or was it a mistake? ii) The Lamias (or is Lamia plural?) in Shadows on the Borderlands are all given spirit magic. Lamias, like vampires, have no characteristic POW, and so shouldn't be able to cast spirit magic. If haven't seen these posted before. If they have been, my apologies. Graeme Lindsell a.k.a gal502@huxley.anu.edu.au