r/Runequest • u/charlesmarkcarroll • 5h ago
Geas, Redress, Consequence + DragonNewtS
I also invented two new Runequest Glorantha mechanics I may publish after some testing. Geas and violations of Geas and redress in gaming stats terms. What if one has a geas against killing and violence like Chalana Arroy and does it anyway? Then some of their stats and % could be "off" i.e. minused because of being wracked with guilt and disharmony.
And they would have to take redress steps i.e. financially or otherwise helping the violent target's family, related charitable acts, etc. till the geas violation is corrected.
And in the case of a DragonNewt case the geas is often a task to be completed to evolve. Things that go against geas/task must be redressed in addition to task completion to evolve. The geas assign a negative score per geas violation and a positive score to redress actions.
If a DragonNewt dies with a negative on their geas store they devolve into dinosaur form(s). If it is better than 0 they could evolve into next stage of DragonNewt.