“Come, tum the page. You know it’s the right thing to do, the only thing to do. The knowledge you seek, the power you need, are contained within its unfriendly pages. Learn what has been forbidden, not for your protection (as those who would control you claim) , but because they wished to keep these secrets for themselves.”
“What is the cost, you ask? Only a token, the smallest portion of your essence. Nothing you can’t afford to pay, surely. After all, of what use to you is your soul, really?”
In those fell days we dwelled in the places between holy Lake Nralar and the People of the Colossus. Those monstrous enemies caused the very earth to rise against us in forms horrible beyond sight and speech. So terrible were these forms that none of our gods would fight them after Galanin himself was so sorely wounded. Thus did kind Urtiam, God of the Bones of the Earth, raise the impassible Walls of Rock [Rockwood Mountains] between us and them to preserve peace. Else we would surely have fallen beneath the hungering perils which rose from within the doomed land.
From Farnhan’s “Ancient Treasures of Dorastor”
Welcome to The Book of Drastic Resolutions, yet another fanzine dedicated to the world of Glorantha. Inside you will find four chaotic cults and twelve cult outlines (like those in Lords of Terror), two fully-developed chaotic NPCs, and notes on Scorpion-men, Walktapi, Thanatar, Krarsht, and the Crimson Bat, among other chaotic creatures and daemons. Articles on chaos runes, the nature of chaos, death, and betrayal are supplemented by statistics for thirteen new creatures, as well as twenty-eight new spells and skills , most of which have never been published before! For those who needed more Chaos than was provided in Dorastor: Land of Doom and Lords of Terror.
What is The Book of Drastic Resolutions?
The Book of Drastic Resolutions is the most Infamous of Gloranthan texts on chaos. Destroyed by Arkat in the 1st Age, it was Rediscovered or Rewritten in the late 3rd Age. Its Author was Excommunicated for Corruption of Chaos, for it contains extensive information on the Creatures and Cults of Terror. It is illustrated with ancient Star Maps and arcane Symbols, and many Blasphemous Spells are rumoured to be held within its Unfriendly Pages.
Details
- Production, Development, All Uncredited Work: Stephen Martin
- Proofreading and Error-Trapping: Shannon Appel, Sara Martin, Eric Rowe
- Fragments, Boxed Text. Etc: Shannon Appel. Chaosium. Inc., Rudy Kraft. Stephen Martin, Loren Miller, Paul Reilly, Ken Rolston, Eric Rowe and Greg Stafford
- Cover Painting: Dan Barker
- illustrations, Back Cover Painting Bill Filios: (except page 4 by Greg Stafford)
- Maps of Dorastor based on originals by Ken Kaufer, Charlie Krank and Greg Stafford
- RuneQuestCon II transcriptions (including “Greg Stafford on Chaotic Tricksters”)
- David Camoirabo, Martin Crim. Peter Michaels, James Polk
Contents
- Introduction
- The People of Bagog
- Stephen Martin (w/thanks to Paul Reilly and Ken Rolston)
- Chaos in the Sky
- Cult of the Urain
- A Letter from Ratios
- Greg Stafford
- Myths of Dorastor
- Greg Stafford and Sandy Petersen
- The Sword of Life
- Based on material by Chaosium, Inc
- Near the End of the World
- Greg Stafford
- What is Chaos?
- Shannon Appel. Nick Brooke, Stephen Martin, Eric Rowe
- Yaransor the Sage
- Devouring Diseases
- Creatures of Chaos
- Based on material by Chaosium, Inc
- Walkapi
- Based on material by Chaosium, Inc
- Notes on the Cult of Pocharngo
- Based on material by Ken Rolston
- The Voice of Treason
- Paul Reilly
- Notes on the Cult of Thanatar
- Notes on the Cult of Krarsht
- Based on material by Chaosium, Inc
- F’ghel
- Michael Derry
- Chaotic Features for Plants
- Eric Rowe
- The Land of Doom
- Map: Extent of the Ash Flat Sump
- Map: Dorast
- rLand of Doom
- Map: Tne Great Rain Year
- Entering the Hellwood
- Based on material by Chaosium, Inc
- Notes on Chaos in the Hellwood
- Map: Extent of the Slimestone Gorp
- Spirits of Chaos
- Cult of Hungry Jack
- Path of Infinite Mutations
- Lance J. Purple
- Cult of Taeterisus
- Designer’s Notes for Lords of Terror
- Who was Gbaji?
- Jeff Okamoto
- TheEightfoldWayofChaos
- Possessing Passions
- Stephen Martin, Finula McCaul, Paul Reilly
- OtherCultsinDorastor
- Cult Distributions in Dorastor
- Index of Creatures, Skills, and Spells
- “One more NPC”
- Based on characters or ideas by Ken Kaufer, Stephen Martin. Greg Stafford, Sandy Petersen
- Further Adventures in Dorastor
Related Pages
- Book of Drastic Resolutions – Volume Darkness (1998)
- Book of Drastic Resolutions – Volume Prax (1997)
- The Book of Drastic Resolutions Index
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