> The most obvious method that comes to my mind is
> providing your own "opposition" for various stations.
> Whether this is "cheating" or cunning tactics is a
> matter of opinion, and it can be used to either raise
> or lower the stakes.
In my Glorantha at least, this is going to be pretty hard, because opponents of suitable power will get 'drawn in' whether you want them to or not, and regardless of any planning you might attempt. Unless you're doing a Practice Quest, of course, in which case there shouldn't be much of a problem.
> I can see one other "cheat", though have never seen it
> doen in practice. Suppose you're doing a myth of deity
> X. And your lead hero isn't primarily a worshipper of
> X, she follows Y (who's close enough, and there aren't
> any X specialists around). You get to a station that
> should be very hard for X, but happens to fit Y's
> skill-set perfectly. So you use skills from the
> "wrong" god to get past this station.
The problem here, I suspect, is that the Quest is quite likely to test you on the things the god *is* supposed to be good at, and which you're probably not. Now, if, as you say, there are no X specialists around, that may still be your best bet, but I'm not sure I'd count it as a 'cheat', since the overall chance of success in the quest is unlikely to be improved.
-- Trotsky Gamer and Skeptic ------------------------------------------------------ Trotsky's RPG website: http://www.ttrotsky.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/
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