Official Answers from Chaosium This covers the first part of Chapter 16, pages 381-390: For the Sorcery spells section see : Chapter 16 Sorcery Spells Q&A Sorcery Use (page 381) Spell Strength…
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The Third Magic System – Sorcery
Sorcery is the third major magic system, after spirit magic and Rune magic. It is fundamentally concerned with understanding the source of everything and the ultimate principles underlying reality. In the core…
CHA4028 RuneQuest: Roleplaying in Glorantha – Chapter 16 Sorcery Spells Q&A
Official Answers from Chaosium This covers the second part of Chapter 16, pages 390-401. For the Sorcery rules section see : Sorcery Q&A Boon of Kargan Tor (page 392) Boon of Kargan…
Sorcery serves only mortal will
I’ve posted a few thoughts on the dilemma of how mortals interact with the God Time, and how to understand the gods so that mortals might wield a fraction of their power…
Lhankor Mhy Sorcery
Several Dragon Pass cults routinely play around with sorcery – Lhankor Mhy in particular. But the Knowing Priests are largely self-taught amateurs when it comes to sorcery. Temples tend to know a…
Sorcery
So let’s talk about sorcery. First thing is obvious – it is very different from other magic systems. With spirit magic, you have a spirit that you know how to concentrate on…
Sorcery Plans
I have lots of plans with sorcery. But I see no point in releasing a whole series of “generic” sorcery spells until we really have a vehicle where sorcery is more than…
Malkionism And Sorcery
Malkionism provides a set of beliefs, practices, and traditions that support the development of magical specialists in sorcery. Whether that was its original purpose or merely something that it made possible is…
Understanding the Malkioni approach to sorcery, runes, and gods
For understanding the Malkioni approach to sorcery, runes, and gods, the Xeotam Dialogues, written by Greg back in the 1970s, is absolutely invaluable. Read it in: This was originally posted on Google+…
Sorcery Spell list
Presented here for completeness. Unprefixed page numbers refer to the Core Rules, SR is the Smoking Ruin, LW is the Lunar Way. Name Page Notes Accelerate Healing 391 Animate Dead 391 Attract…
Magic Systems I
In RuneQuest there are three nearly universal approaches to magic, as well as several less common and rare magic systems. The following are nearly universal: Spirit Magic: Nearly universal, this is the…
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Sorcery cost
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Old School Sword and Sorcery Art from the 1970s
Here’s another original from the Berlin Vault – a picture of a warrior by early Gloranthan artist Swenston from around 1976. Note the trippy geometric shapes he is running through, the general…
Torvald
The Torvald Fragments are the source of Lhankor Mhy sorcery Write up Page Year Runes PersonalGlyph Notes Cults of Glorantha Preview 294 2019 Torvald Fragments RuneQuest Glorantha 389 2018 Torvald Fragments HeroQuest…
Hero Wars Glossary (2000)
last updated 10 May 2000 Words in boldface indicate other entries within this Glossary. Indicates an augmentation. D+x Indicates the difficulty of an attempted action. Indicates an edge or handicap. Indicates one…
CHA4034 Red Book of Magic – Chapter 02 Rune Magic Spells Q&A (A-M)
Official Answers from Chaosium This covers the second part of Chapter 2, (A-M), pages 10-67: It also contains the Q&A for Rune spells in: For the Rune Magic rules, see Chapter 02…
History of Malkioni Thought – Brithini and First Age
The following is an attempt to define Malkionism by looking at the key “core texts” . By the definition I am using, a “core text” is the ultimate source text for a…
Magic Systems II
The main magic systems in RuneQuest are: Rune magic (wielding a fraction of the power of the gods), Spirit magic (communication with the spirits that reside in the natural energy currents of…
Machine City and God Forgot
As we all know, magic is the result of drawing upon the timeless and eternal “God Time” to affect the material world of Time. And so sorcery as a magic system is…
Magic Systems II
Thinking about the three basic types of magic (there are more, but these are the most common): Spirit magic is a song, blessing, chant, trick, talent, etc., that gives you an advantage….
Anaxos the Horali
When Tarlyra – a Humakt initiate – goes into combat, she wields some of the power of Humakt, standing in for the god in the mundane world. That’s what Rune Magic is,…
Malkioni Wizardry
Here’s a little primer on Malkioni wizardry from the Guide: The Malkioni venerate the Invisible God who created the Runes, worshiped as gods by the barbarians. The Runes, in turn, created lesser…
Mortal Approaches to the Cosmos
Core to Glorantha’s cosmology is that the world we mortals live in is the result of the gods and their deeds and conflicts. This so-called Gods War let Chaos into the world,…