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MGP8109 Player’s Guide to Glorantha (2007)


Glorantha is a game setting unlike any other, with its rich blend of history and myth shaping the very world that characters líve ín. The Player’s Guide to Glorantha allows players both old and new to step ínto one of the myriad Roles available. No longer is the player limited by the basic character starting templates – now it is possible to be a Knowledge Quester of the God Learner Empire, a dinosaur wrangler troll of the Empire of Wyrm’s Friends, a spirit warrior of the Praxían Bison Clan or even a duck Chaos hunter.

Besides character creation this book also contains rules for new legendary abilities, spells and equipment that are unique to specific cultures, now every backgrouno available to the player will have its own uníque abilíties.

Although weak compared to other available spell systems, the rules for Folk Magic are to be founo inside. This is the magic that every starting character has access to. The simplicity ano functionality of Folk Magic will mean that it always has a use, no matter how powerful a hero may become.

Enter the world of Glorantha and revel in its ability to astound ano amaze.


Details

  • Author: Bryan Steele
  • Editor: Nick Robinson
  • Cover Art: Tony Parker
  • Cover Design: Bob Cram, Dan Howard & Jeff Koch
  • RuneQuest Logo: Anne Stokes
  • Interior Illustrations: Robin Bowles, Mark Dudley, Nathan Furman, Sherard Jackson, Jainai Jeffries, Iordanis Lazaridis, Mike Mumah, Claudio Pozas & Charles Walton
  • Proofreading: Scribendi
  • Publications Manager: Ian Belcher
  • Production Director: Alexander Fennell
  • Playtesting: Mark Billanie, Daniel Haslam, Mark Howe, Alan Moore, Daniel Scothorne, Mark Sizer & Michael J Young
  • Special Thanks: Greg Stafford & Roderick Robertson
  • $24.95

Contents

  • Introduction
  • Player’s Primer to Glorantha
  • New Backgrounds
  • New Professions
  • New Races
  • New Legendary Abilities
  • New Gloranthan Spells
  • Gloranthan Equipment
  • Folk Magic
  • No index

Related Pages

  • Living Glorantha (2010)
  • MGP8101 Glorantha: The Second Age – 1st Edition (2006)
  • MGP8105 Cults of Glorantha, Volume I (2006)
  • MGP8107 Magic of Glorantha (2006)
  • MGP8112 Trolls: A Guide to the Uz (2007)
  • MGP8115 The Clanking City (2007)
  • MGP8120 Cults of Glorantha, Volume II (2007)
  • MGP8123 Jrustela (2007)
  • MGP8124 Dragonewts: Guide to the Eravssarr (2007)
  • MGP8128 Blood of Orlanth (2008)
  • MGP8129 Dara Happa Stirs (2008)
  • MGP8130 Elfs: A Guide to the Aldryami (2007)
  • MGP8148 Dwarfs: A Guide to the Mostali (2009)
  • MGP8149 Ruins of Glorantha (2008)
  • MGP8155 Fronela (2008)
  • MGP8156 Ducks: A Guide to the Durulz (2008)
  • MGP8159 Ralios (2006)
  • MGP8172 Pavis Rises (2010)
  • MGP8175 Cults of Glorantha – 2nd edition (2010)
  • MGP8176 Races of Glorantha, Volume I (2009)
  • MGP8180 Glorantha: The Second Age 2nd edition (2010)
  • MGP8191 The Abiding Book (2010)
  • Mongoose RuneQuest Products
  • Runic Powers (2007)
  • Signs & Portents Magazine (2006-2011)

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