Welcome Stranger!
> First session of a new game, and the players are getting into
> it more than I expected. Of course, they ask questions I don't
> know the answers to... Is there a more appropriate place to ask
> these questions?
Not in my opinion. You are in the right "place". And the premise of your campiagn is good enough and similar to our own.
> When an Ernaldan swaps from sub-cult to sub-cult over the
> course of their life, do they lose the affinities and/or feats
> that they might have from the earlier sub-cult? If they became
> for instance an "Enferalda the Supporter" devotee, and then get
> married and have children, could they move to becoming a
> "Mahome the Hearth Goddess" devotee? or is that sort of thing
> only available to initiates? If they do, then do they lose
> their incompatible affinities?
I leave these answers to other people, more expert in orlanthi cults than me.
> I have a humakti who wants to use two swords (because it's
> cool) - from SCA experience, I figure it's probably more
> effective than just one sword, but less effective than sword
> and shield. Are there any rules about that?
I figured my own opinion about two swords technique in regard to
Drizzt Do'Urden (I am no SCAer, myself).
Two swords are better than one and shield if you are trained to use
them.
You could imagine this fact in heroquest simply by giving a fancy
name to the tecnique your player wants to use: something like "X Wing
style" or "Twin Whirling Tongues" or "Wheels of Blood". Emphasis and
personalization is important in Heroquest. Have you read the HeroBook?
> Do re-sheathed humakti have normal "relationships" with their
> clan? or do they continue to have no relationship? I'm guessing
> they have some sort of relationship, although I wouldn't be
> surprised if it were lower than normal.
This one I leave to others too.
> One of the players wanted the "knife that cuts anything" and I
> was happy to let him have it;
good.
> afterwards I thought about it a
> bit, and asked myself - could you use such a thing to sever
> relationships?
Yes, why not?
> Why does the Orlanthi Hunter have this instead
> of the Humakti?
Intriguing question!
> Will the Humakti get jealous....
This last option is tempting: food for good roleplaying, probably.
> Oh, and I'm having difficulty getting my head around the
> archery "contest" - does anyone have any hints?
I use only Simple Contests for Archery. I suppose it serves me better than the extended contest rules. Just consider any level of defeat as "dead counter" and pay the archer with counter shooting. The players will give you hints on how to save narrator characters the next time *they* are shooting at a moving target/hidden target/armored target etc.
Hope the above helps just a bit.
Ciao,
Gian
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