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Converting Thunder Rebels
from Hero Wars to HeroQuest
Specific Notes
| p. 65 |
The ability to seek divine aid through the medium of a god-talker is special
magic available to Heortlings, and works as described on page 66, with the
god-talker matching an appropriate ability (with ritual modifiers) against a
resistance determined by the narrator. (If the god-talker does not have an exact
Pray to [God] ability, he takes an improvisational modifier for using his Worship
Storm Pantheon ability.) |
| Page 68 |
Subcults and Magic. To clarify the effect of Thunder
Rebels on the rules for Theism in HeroQuest, a
devotee must increase his subcult affinity and both of his aspect
affinities to a level of 1W2 to learn the subcult secret. |
| p. 69 |
In the example, only feats improvised from Fight Elements and Storm suffer an
improvisational modifier. Using the affinities for a bonus (augmentation) does not
take this modifier, in accordance with HeroQuest. |
| p. 85 |
Protection: While the alien world modifier has changed, the -10 may
still apply to foreign priests as an improvisational modifier to an appropriate
ability, at the narrator's option. |
| p. 101 |
Although wyters use the rules for guardians in HeroQuest (page 92, or Hero's Book page 29), they use
their functions as if they were affinities, rather than as individual abilities.
Because most clans are old and well-established, they should determine their
Awareness, Blessing, and Defense ratings as described in Thunder Rebels. |
| p. 153 |
The Storm Pantheon and Common Magic keywords should be added to both Male
Heortling and Female Heortling lists (near the bottom of the page). |
| p. 155 |
Players of existing Heortling heroes may add all the abilities from
the Storm Pantheon keyword at a rating of 17 (unless the hero already has one of
the abilities at a higher rating). New Heortling players should use the Heortling
Homeland keyword from HeroQuest (p. 48), but narrators may allow the hero to add
the additional abilities listed here (Housework for women; Fyrd Mass Combat,
Javelin throwing, and Running for Men), at her option. |
| p. 160-168 |
New Heortling players should use the Entertainer, Farmer, Healer, Hunter,
Merchant, and Warrior occupation keywords from HeroQuest (pages 31-35) rather than
the versions in this book, although narrators may allow them to use these keywords
instead as being more "Heortling-specific" versions. The other occupations
provided in Thunder Rebels (Beggar,
Craftperson, Fisher, Gardener, God-talker, Herder, Steadwife, Stickpicker) are
available to new Heortling players as well, as are advanced occupations
to appropriate heroes. |
| p. 191 |
The Narrator may allow players to use the Skovara keyword in this book or in
HeroQuest (page 126), at her option. |
| p. 193 |
Add the feat Heal Impairment to Ernalda the Healer's Heal People affinity. |
| p. 194 |
Bevara's Heal Self Fully feat is not major magical healing (see
HeroQuest, page 81 or Hero's Book page 24), but it may act as one at the narrator's option since it only
affects the caster, and so is already hindered in ways that a secret most likely
would not be. For example, it is not much use during an extended contest since a
hero cannot transfer AP to himself. Also, once the contest is resolved, the hero
may still suffer an appropriate penalty to the ability if she fails, so an injured
hero will have her rating in the feat halved. Alternately, this feat can be
considered "pompous magic" (see HeroQuest, page 99) and so might not necessarily
heal the hero fully without a complete victory (i.e., a marginal victory might
only stabilize the hero, while a minor or major victory might only reduce the
wound "level" by one or two respectively). The narrator should decide. |
| p. 199 |
Kadone the Grounder's Dismiss Air Elemental feat should actually be
Dismiss Air Essence. |
| p. 203 |
A Grain Goddess or Animal Mother follower using her affinities does not take
an improvisational penalty when using it as an automatic augment, even if not used
on her subcult plant or animal. |
| p. 229 |
A follower of Varanorlanth who knows the Survive Anywhere secret suffers no
alien world penalty anywhere in the God World, and only half the normal penalty
(i.e., -10) in the other Otherworlds. |
| p. 235 |
When a devotee of Orlanthcarl who knows the cult secret plows a field, he has
two choices. He can use a mundane ability to initiate the contest, augmented by
the secret's rating. The narrator then sets the resistance based on the terrain.
Alternately, the devotee can use the Plow Any Field secret itself. In this case,
he will face only a resistance of 14 (the default resistance for magic) unless
there is an active and/or supernatural resistance (as described in HeroQuest,
page 99 or Hero's Book page 25). |
| p. 239 |
The Conquer Elements secret now provides a bonus rather than an edge. |
| p. 247 |
Ignore the portion of a manmolaning's description referring to a passion
spirit. The rest of the description is accurate in that a victim overcome by a
manmolaning suffers a penalty of -1/10 of its Steal Breath rating. |
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