Back last September we made an announcement about the future of RuneQuest. As announced then, we’re working on a Revised RuneQuest: Roleplaying in Glorantha core rule book, significantly shorter than the existing RQG core rule book—about 60% the…
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A European View of Sartar
Although I think the American West is probably the best point of comparison for Dragon Pass and Prax, you can get a good feel for the rugged valleys and mountains for Sartar…
You don’t need deep backstory to play RQG
We creators of fantasy worlds often give WAY too much focus on the deep backstory of our setting. Now I want to make it clear, that you can run and play games…
Initiation in Multiple Cults
In RQG, it is explicitly permitted to be an initiate of multiple cults. Keep track of Rune points separately, remember that means you have two temple hierarchies to keep happy, etc. But…
Pavis is a Large City…
It is easy to forget that Pavis is actually a Large City, with several parts: That actually makes Pavis larger than Boldhome.
Views of Arkat
Pretty much every cult who Arkat interacted with as an initiate or associate accepts that Arkat certainly was telling the truth about what he did and experienced on the Hero Plane. Their…
Heretics and Gloranthan Cults
The very word “heretic” is a hard one to apply to those Gloranthan cults that are fundamentally grounded in Hero Plane experiences. Now that’s a mouthful, but let me try to explain…
Raibanth to Furthest
Here’s another travel observation. It is about 700 km from Raibanth up the Oslir River to Furthest. It takes about 35 to 40 days to take a boat upriver. Or you can…
The size of Glorantha and Genertela
Here’s a few notes I think some might find useful in thinking about the size of Glorantha and Genertela. Glorantha is a big setting. The world is a big slab of Earth…
Consequences in RuneQuest
My core philosophy when running RQ (or almost any TTRPG): every action has consequences that boomerang back. This is something that’s been pretty consistent with how I run games going back to…
What D&D level is a 90% weapon skill
There is a tendency to look at a weapon skill at 90% and think “my gosh that MUST be higher than 3rd level”, forgetting that is only your chance of not missing…
Discussions About Rules Changes
Something I see a lot in TTRPG forums or reddit or wherever are discussions about rules changes that are intended to solve a non-existent problem. Most often this is about making something…
Threat Rating
In RQ2 and RQ3 there was an approach to scaling encounters and working out appropriate loot. RQ2 frankly had the better of the two. Treasure factors were a pretty flexible system for…
River of Cradles
If you want to get a good feel for the River of Cradles, the Lower Colorado River from Page to Yuma is probably one of your best real world sources, and certainly…
New Pavis City Council
The city government was instituted by the founders of the city and has been little changed since 1579, when Dorasar died The government is run by the city council, whose members are…
New Pavis after the Liberation II
New Pavis after liberation is a thriving trade city of guilds, temples, and councils—yet also the armed camp of Argrath‘s growing army. The king’s personal warband, his mercenaries, and Praxian allies fill…
Lunar Ideology of Power
Since yesterday I talked about the Orlanthi concept of “freedom”, lets look a little bit at the Lunar ideology of power: Like the Orlanthi, the ideology of power in the Lunar Heartlands…
Orlanthi Freedom
Orlanthi “freedom” isn’t a modern liberal ideal of individual rights protected by impersonal laws and institutions. It’s a much older, fiercer conception: the freedom to choose whom you follow, whom you fight,…
Dorasar and Ancient Greek colonies
Dorasar was what the ancient Greeks would have called an oikist, the founding leader who held near-absolute authority during the establishment phase, only for the colony to transition to an oligarchic system…
Arkat the Bodhisattva
This is a DEEP background post and irrelevant for most games. But I know some of you will enjoy it a lot, so I’m posting it anyway. Let’s start with I don’t…
RuneQuest Warlords – Setting
So let’s talk a little about the setting of RuneQuest: Warlords. The game is set in Dorastor and Talastar, and chronicles one of the wars between Talastar and the Chaotic hordes of…
RuneQuest Warlords
I am so happy to be announcing that RuneQuest: Warlords is now available on Steam! I absolutely URGE you to get this! The team at Slitherine and Volmi have done an incredible…
Scale of Empire
The Lunar Empire covers about 410,000 square km, plus or minus 50,000. That makes it is a little larger the state of California or about the size of the modern nation of…
New Pavis after the Liberation I
When Argrath and his alliance of nomads and exiled Sartarites breached the city walls, those Lunar soldiers that did not surrender were killed. Those that surrendered were disarmed and stripped of everything…
RuneQuest Adventures – Design and the role of combat
Enough on heroquests for the moment. Let’s talk a little about adventure design and the role of combat in RuneQuest adventures. In most video games and in 5e and Pathfinder 2, combat…