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A new update about RuneQuest
Chaosium has made a company decision to solely focus on the revised RuneQuest rule book that we announced in September 2025. As previously discussed, the revised RuneQuest will be fully compatible with…
Table Tales: Mark Morrison uses Greg’s “Tell Me About” in one of the best RuneQuest sessions of his life
By Mark Morrison A few weeks ago I ran one of the best RuneQuest sessions of my life, and trust me, I’ve seen more than my share of Sacred Times. What made…
Journey to Jonstown #83: Children of the Flame
Out now in English! – Children of the Flame (Les Enfants de la Flamme) was a part of the official French language localisation of RuneQuest Roleplaying in Glorantha, launched via the Game On Tabletop crowdfunding platform in 2019…
Revised RuneQuest Update
Table Tales: Breaking the Curse of the Empty Table By Mark Morrison It’s been far too long between tales! Partly because I’ve had my head down working on the RuneQuest Revised Rulebook for next…
Chaos has a New Face
Scorpion Men have been terrorizing adventurers since the first edition of RuneQuest, nearly 50 years ago. Today, we unveil new Scorpion Man art and design by the incomparable Loïc Muzy! See it…
What’s New With RuneQuest? – here’s the Panel from Chaosium Con UK 2026
Join Chaosium’s Brian, MOB, and Rick, as they talk about what’s new with RuneQuest. This is a recording of a live panel from Chaosium Con UK, May 2026.
Cults and Subcults
Something that I consider a bad hangover from the HW days of infinite subcults is the idea that everything needs a special cult assigned to it. That’s not really the case in…
RuneQuest: Fantasy Roleplaying FAQ Redux
In making a comment on the RuneQuest Facebook group today, I suddenly realised that a Chaosium FAQ that was posted there back in March 2025 should have also been cross-posted here on…
How Good Is My Skill?
Here’s a little chart I put together to help people answer the question – How Good Is My Skill?
Praxian Names
So many people enjoyed that post on Sartarite names, so naturally I started playing around with finishing a similar short essay on Praxian names. Names are given at birth, usually by the…
Sartarite Names II
A week or so ago, I was mulling about the meaning of names in Glorantha. So while traveling back from Chaosium Con under the influence of lots of painkillers (from a strained…
A bit more insight on the RQG revised project
Here’s – a bit more insight on the RQG revised project that me (MOB), Mark Morrison and Brian Holland are working on: Streamlining, Usability, Compatibility. These are the three guiding principles of our revision of…
Why I Simplify Names at the Table
I think there is a tendency (and one that Greg and I fell for from time to time) to fall into a real-world anthropology take on Gloranthan religion and not to take…
Appendix N
The original RuneQuest from 1978 included its own Appendix N, which actually predated AD&D’s Appendix N. After finishing the draft of the new edition, I updated that list as to what my…
The fundamental difference between RuneQuest and 5e
After running several RuneQuest games recently for players new to the system, one fundamental difference between RuneQuest and 5e (or Pathfinder) became especially clear to me. In RuneQuest, a hero is a bridge between…
Update on what’s happening with RQ
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…
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…