So while I am on this whole “through a heroquest into your RuneQuest campaign” kick – here’s some ideas: Pay attention to the calendar. If the characters decide to adventure on a…
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How The God Learners Learned About The Gods
So we know that the God Learners assembled the monomyth – that is the cohesive framework for understanding the events of the God Time. Furthermore they created several maps of the God…
Turning an Adventure into a Heroquest
Turning an adventure into a heroquest is easier than you might imagine in RuneQuest. Let’s remember what a heroquest is at its most elementary – a heroquest is a commingling of the…
Saving the Cosmos at all Cost
Many old lorehounds often make a common mistake regarding the Lightbringers Quest. Anyone who thinks “I’m going to perform the LBQ so X and Y happens” is setting themselves up to fail….
Layout of the Big Rubble
The Big Rubble is about 15 square km or 1500 hectares. That’s basically the Upper Westside of Manhattan or little bigger than Kensington plus Chelsea in London. Another way of thinking about…
The Fall of Lunar New Pavis
This is something I put together for Andrew Cowie (and also Tiffany Rose Nickel, Dan Zappone, and Andy Cowley), but realized it might be interesting for the rest of you all. In…
Old Seshnela
Old Seshnela in the far west of Genertela is about 240 km wide from north to south and about 320 km long from east to west. It is about twice the size…
Great Gods and Elemental Runes
In Glorantha, many of the great gods embody one of the elemental Runes (and usually include a Power Rune or two or even a condition rune). All of the elements have both…
Humakt and Orlanthi society
The relationship between the cults of Orlanth and Humakt also help show the relationship between the initiates of Humakt and the rest of Orlanthi society. Most adults in Orlanthi society participate in…
So what are the Thunder Brothers?
Now I rather thought the description in the Lightbringers book is enough, and if you don’t have a copy your should order it right away! But let’s assume you have that book….
The Size of Sartar
At the time Argrath is acclaimed Prince in 1627, Sartar covers some 16,000 to 20,000 km2 (kind of depends on what you want to measure). Pavis is an allied/associated city-state, and is…
Sun County, Prax
There’s about 19,000 people in Sun County, with some 4350 initiates of Yelmalio centered on the Sun Dome Temple. Throw in another 1000 Yelmalio cultists and lay members in Pavis County, and…
Hey that’s cool Jeff, but what the heck am I supposed to do with that in my Runequest game?
I posted two “deep” background articles on the nature of the Lunar Empire and Argrath’s role as a driver of change in Glorantha. Now a sensible question would be something like, “hey…
Introducing Gloranthan Gods and Cults
Gaming a lot of RuneQuest in a lot of different countries and with a lot of different cross-sections of the population as I do, a lot of people can easily get hung-up…
Argat / Arkat / Argrath
Here are a few more notes for Discord. Now from time to time, we get folk wanting to proclaim how much of a brutal extremist Argrath is, but to me those threads…
The Cycle of History
Some notes from a discussion on the Chaosium Discord channel where I discussed what I consider one of the key dynamics of the setting: The brutality of the Lunar Empire to its…
Magic Items and Runequest
So. Lets think of some of the categories they might come into: See also
The Grasslands of Prax
Something to keep in mind about Prax. The grasslands of Prax are fertile enough to support only about 70-80% of the requirements of the various tribes, but not all of them. That…
Praxian Kinship Groups
Praxian tribes are divided into smaller kinship groups or clans, with their herds. This is the basic unit for nomadic migration, although if resources permit, multiple clans might travel together, sharing grasslands….
Lunar Resettlement of Tarsh after 1460 ST
After 1460, large sections of Peloria (especially east of the Oslir River) were depopulated grasslands. To resettle and repopulate, land was assigned to nobles and temples with low initial taxes (who then…
The Spread of the Lunar Way
In the Lunar Provinces, about 26% of the total population follows the Lunar Way. The Lunar Way was introduced to the Provinces between 1330 and 1350 with the campaigns of the Conquering…
Gods of Fire and Sky and the Lunar Way
The Gods of Fire and Sky co-exist alongside the Lunar Way in a pluralistic religious landscape in the Lunar Heartlands. Rituals honoring Yelm, Dayzatar, etc. are dominant in formal, elite, and rural…
How Much Land is a Hide?
So in RQ, a “hide” is a unit of accounting and not really of area. It represents the amount of land sufficient to support a household or meet certain fiscal duties. The…
Agricultural Data for RuneQuest
Back in the late 70s and early 80s, Greg‘s only good source of agricultural data was based on the Domesday Book, and at some point he even got a computer printout of…
Farming in Dara Happa
In anticipation of the Fire/Sky Book, here’s a few notes on farming in Dara Happa. Dara Happa supports a diverse agricultural system shaped by its river systems, wetlands, and varied climate. The…