If you want to get a good feel for the River of Cradles, the Lower Colorado River from Page to Yuma is probably one of your best real world sources, and certainly…
Month: December 2025
New Pavis City Council
The city government was instituted by the founders of the city and has been little changed since 1579, when Dorasar died The government is run by the city council, whose members are…
New Pavis after the Liberation II
New Pavis after liberation is a thriving trade city of guilds, temples, and councils—yet also the armed camp of Argrath‘s growing army. The king’s personal warband, his mercenaries, and Praxian allies fill…
Lunar Ideology of Power
Since yesterday I talked about the Orlanthi concept of “freedom”, lets look a little bit at the Lunar ideology of power: Like the Orlanthi, the ideology of power in the Lunar Heartlands…
Orlanthi Freedom
Orlanthi “freedom” isn’t a modern liberal ideal of individual rights protected by impersonal laws and institutions. It’s a much older, fiercer conception: the freedom to choose whom you follow, whom you fight,…
Dorasar and Ancient Greek colonies
Dorasar was what the ancient Greeks would have called an oikist, the founding leader who held near-absolute authority during the establishment phase, only for the colony to transition to an oligarchic system…
Arkat the Bodhisattva
This is a DEEP background post and irrelevant for most games. But I know some of you will enjoy it a lot, so I’m posting it anyway. Let’s start with I don’t…
RuneQuest Warlords – Setting
So let’s talk a little about the setting of RuneQuest: Warlords. The game is set in Dorastor and Talastar, and chronicles one of the wars between Talastar and the Chaotic hordes of…
RuneQuest Warlords
I am so happy to be announcing that RuneQuest: Warlords is now available on Steam! I absolutely URGE you to get this! The team at Slitherine and Volmi have done an incredible…
Scale of Empire
The Lunar Empire covers about 410,000 square km, plus or minus 50,000. That makes it is a little larger the state of California or about the size of the modern nation of…
New Pavis after the Liberation I
When Argrath and his alliance of nomads and exiled Sartarites breached the city walls, those Lunar soldiers that did not surrender were killed. Those that surrendered were disarmed and stripped of everything…
RuneQuest Adventures – Design and the role of combat
Enough on heroquests for the moment. Let’s talk a little about adventure design and the role of combat in RuneQuest adventures. In most video games and in 5e and Pathfinder 2, combat…
Devoting Yourself to a God
One more thought. In RQ, a character can really only overcome setting physics through magic, spirits, good equipment, and maybe the special abilities of a rune lord (multiple actions in a round)….
The RuneQuest Playloop
So now that we’ve dived down deep into heroquesting, lets pan the camera out and look at what actually is going on at the table in RuneQuest, or for that matter most…
Some HeroQuesting Thoughts IV
So how to do it? Well start with the RQ rules themselves. Let’s imagine we have a group of characters that are investigating the Old Vampire Cave on the darkest day in…
Some HeroQuesting Thoughts III
Now sometimes people just want cool powers. And maybe that’s what we should focus on: Now the trick with these is you either need players that say – I want X cool…
Some HeroQuesting Thoughts II
Because I am enjoying this, I’m going to continue on the heroquesting discussion. So lets first clear the table: The annual Sacred Time rituals or High Holy Day ceremonies are NOT the…