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In article <699@k.cs.cmu.edu> tim@k.cs.cmu.edu (Tim Maroney) writes:
>It's pretty easy to design your own.  Cults of Prax is rather
>Glorantha-specific anyway.  You do not need to write up a cult in as
>detailed a fashion as recommended in order to play it, particularly since
>beginning characters will be only lay members.
>
>The most common problem in designing a religion for RQ is excessive
>complexity, with tons of different grades and offices and so on.

Actually, the biggest problem in writing Glorantha cults is making
sure that it doesn't interfere with all the other cults that Greg
has written.

Look for Gods of Glorantha, coming soon to your local game store.
This product contains cult writeups for 60 deities.  Also included
is a Gloranthan calendar with the High Holy Days of the 60 cults
on it.  Also is a Prosopaedia, an objective short writeup of almost
all the deities in Glorantha.  Last is a set of one-page sheets
very much like the "What the Priests/Shaman/Sorcerer Says" in
the RuneQuest Magic Book.  These sheets cover the major pantheons
(Elf, Dwarf, Eastern, Lunar, Malkioni, Orlanthi, Praxian, Pamaltelan)
and are very subjective.  It is quite an enjoyable sight.

The beauty of the sheets is that if you have a player who doesn't
know the first thing about Gloranthan mythology, and he joins, say,
the cult of Orlanth, you give him the Orlanthi sheet and he can read
what his cult thinks about the other cults, and some of the major
deities in his(Orlanth's) pantheon.  This can lead to real role-
playing when he meets his first Lunar worshiper.


The New Number Who,	okamoto@BERKELEY.EDU
Jeff Okamoto		..!ucbvax!okamoto