By Jeff Richard. Updated 26th May 2021
These are the core documents for writing about Glorantha for RuneQuest. This originally appeared on Facebook:
- https://www.facebook.com/groups/RuneQuest/permalink/1966017863574203/
- https://www.facebook.com/groups/RuneQuest/permalink/1966048100237846
A0 Texts (in no particular order)
These are the texts that everything else is built off and that I constantly refer to in world building, rules building, etc.
- The Guide to Glorantha
- The Glorantha Sourcebook
- RuneQuest Adventures in Glorantha
- RuneQuest Bestiary
- White Bear and Red Moon
- Nomad Gods
- The Cults Book (currently internal reference only)
- The Sartar Book (currently internal reference only)
- RQ Campaign Book (currently internal reference only)
- The Master Map series (internal reference, with the Dragon Pass map in the Sartar Book)
A1 Texts
Not used all the time as they are built off the A0 texts. But sometimes they have information present nowhere else:
- RQ GM Screen Pack
- The Smoking Ruins
- The Red Book of Magic
- Pegasus Plateau
- Pavis and the Big Rubble (RQ2)
- Dorastor (RQ3)
- Sun County (RQ3)
- King of Sartar. The parts that are A0 are available elsewhere. And lots of KoS is not – and intentionally so.
- Trollpak (RQ2 version)
- Griffin Mountain (RQ2)
- Borderlands (RQ2)
- Sartar, Kingdom of Heroes (incorporated into the A1 Sartar Book)
- Sartar Companion (incorporated into the A1 Sartar Book)
There are also a collection of early drafts from Greg that I consult regularly but mainly for ideas and inspiration (and can cheerfully contradict):
- Glorantha Encyclopedia
- MoLaD boardgame draft
- Holy Country Campaign
- Epic (much of that is now incorporated into RQG and the Sartar Book)
- The Orlanthi Gold Sheets (but most of that is now incorporated in the Sartar Book and the Cults Book).
Notes
- RQ Companion. The A0 material is in the Guide, Sourcebook, or Cults book.
- I personally consider your own two Sartar books for HQ A1 texts at least. They are A1, but the Sartar Book (the new one) itself is a better source.
Related Pages
- Cultures
- Dragon Pass
- Glorantha
- Glorantha Core Rune Font
- Glorantha Rune Magic
- History of Dragon Pass in the Second Age
- History of Malkioni Thought – Brithini and First Age
- How Argan Argar Courted Esrola
- Hsunchen Peoples of Genertela (2003)
- Introduction to Gloranthan Mythology and History
- Maps of Glorantha
- Mythical Age Maps
- New Discoveries about Ingolf Dragonfriend
- Runes
- Sartar clan generator
- Some Gods
- Some Myths (1999)
- The Drinking Giant’s Cauldron
- The Enerali circa 130 ST
- The Gloranthan Cosmos (2008)
- The Green Land
- The Missionaries
- The Movable Ephemeris and the Gloranthan Sky
- The Origins of Writing
- The Perfect Sky, revised
- The Plundering of Aron
- The Seven Lightbringers
- The Silver Age and the Dawn
- The Story of The Summons of Evil (1992, 2015)
- Third Age of Glorantha
- Three Documents, One Event
- Types of Heroquests (2008)
- What is the Third Age History of the Sun Dome Temple in Sartar (2008)