A Bag of Runes:

A Bag of Runes:

A Bag of Runes:

A bag with mystical runes engraved on pieces of bone on one side. The owner may cast the rune into the air three times a day and ask a yes or no question. The runes will answer yes by all returning to earth on the rune side and no by all returning to earth on the blank side.

From the Neil Gaiman film Stardust.

14 thoughts on “A Bag of Runes:”

  1. Another way to go would be roll whenever casting the runes:

    On a +10 the runes answer three questions

    On a 7+ the runes answer three question and inflict 1d6 damage on the caster

    On a 6 or less the runes inflict 1d6 damage and provide no answers

  2. What about Gregor’s runecaster move from Sagas? Its pretty sweet.

    Bonecaster: When you roll the runecarved bones to read the future, roll +WIS. On 10+ answer 3 questions about

    it, on 7-9 answer 1, the MC answers the rest.:

    • who does it concern or involve?

    • how will it occur?

    • what place does it involve?

    • what will happen?

  3. Maybe something like this: when you take some time to prepare your rune set, roll +wis. On a 10+, hold 3. On a 7-9,hold 2.

    At any time, you can throw your runes and Spend your hold, one on one, to ask one of the following questions about something:

    (use the questions from the sagas move)

  4. Really cool man.

    My take would be:

    When you throw the runes into the air you may ask a simple yes or no question and receive an honest answer. When you do you anger the Norns, matriarchs of destiny, and take -1 forward.

    The runes will answer yes by all returning to earth on the rune side and no by all returning to earth on the blank side.

    Continued use of the runes will bring you ruin, but just how many times you can afford to use them is unknown.

    Do we get the word ruin from rune by any chance?

  5. Tony Ferron Ruin is from Latin/French roots and Rune from Old English/Norse, with originally different meanings.

    I do hear lots of Americans pronounce them the same, confusingly.

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