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Catalogue of the Gods revisited

Posted on June 29, 2025

This piece from the Mythology book is among my absolute favorite conceptual pieces. It shows somewhere in the vicinity of a hundred deities, some with cults, many without. Imagine these as the…

Thunderbolts in Art

Posted on June 29, 2025

One of the things that really got me down the right path for the look of Orlanth is to look at how thunder and lightning were depicted in ancient religious art. So…

RuneQuest Art

Posted on June 29, 2025

So let’s talk RQ art for a moment. For the last fifteen years or so, I’ve worked hard to give RQ and Glorantha a very distinctive and unique look. Being in Berlin,…

Top Five RuneQuest Cults

Posted on June 29, 2025

So it is absolutely no surprise to me that in our completely non-scientific poll with over 500 votes the most popular five RQ cults are: 5. Yelmalio: Always the most popular cult…

The Greatest of the Power Rune gods

Posted on June 28, 2025

So lets think about the greatest of the Power Rune gods: So if clump them together:Lightbringers get Death, Fertility, Harmony, Movement, and Illusion as strong powers that they embrace.Solars get Fertility, Harmony,…

A Few Notes on the Air Gods

Posted on June 27, 2025

Any time you look at those big abstract Celestial Court “deities” they include potential devolutions. So Umath is generally thought to have been “succeeded” by his children – Kolat, Vadrus, Storm Bull,…

RuneQuest Campaign Heroquesting

Posted on June 26, 2025

So while I am on this whole “through a heroquest into your RuneQuest campaign” kick – here’s some ideas: Pay attention to the calendar. If the characters decide to adventure on a…

How The God Learners Learned About The Gods

Posted on June 25, 2025

So we know that the God Learners assembled the monomyth – that is the cohesive framework for understanding the events of the God Time. Furthermore they created several maps of the God…

Turning an Adventure into a Heroquest

Posted on June 24, 2025

Turning an adventure into a heroquest is easier than you might imagine in RuneQuest. Let’s remember what a heroquest is at its most elementary – a heroquest is a commingling of the…

Saving the Cosmos at all Cost

Posted on June 24, 2025

Many old lorehounds often make a common mistake regarding the Lightbringers Quest. Anyone who thinks “I’m going to perform the LBQ so X and Y happens” is setting themselves up to fail….

Layout of the Big Rubble

Posted on June 21, 2025

The Big Rubble is about 15 square km or 1500 hectares. That’s basically the Upper Westside of Manhattan or little bigger than Kensington plus Chelsea in London. Another way of thinking about…

The Fall of Lunar New Pavis

Posted on June 20, 2025

This is something I put together for Andrew Cowie (and also Tiffany Rose Nickel, Dan Zappone, and Andy Cowley), but realized it might be interesting for the rest of you all. In…

Old Seshnela

Posted on June 19, 2025

Old Seshnela in the far west of Genertela is about 240 km wide from north to south and about 320 km long from east to west. It is about twice the size…

Great Gods and Elemental Runes

Posted on June 19, 2025

In Glorantha, many of the great gods embody one of the elemental Runes (and usually include a Power Rune or two or even a condition rune). All of the elements have both…

Humakt and Orlanthi society

Posted on June 18, 2025

The relationship between the cults of Orlanth and Humakt also help show the relationship between the initiates of Humakt and the rest of Orlanthi society. Most adults in Orlanthi society participate in…

So what are the Thunder Brothers?

Posted on June 18, 2025

Now I rather thought the description in the Lightbringers book is enough, and if you don’t have a copy your should order it right away! But let’s assume you have that book….

The Size of Sartar

Posted on June 17, 2025

At the time Argrath is acclaimed Prince in 1627, Sartar covers some 16,000 to 20,000 km2 (kind of depends on what you want to measure). Pavis is an allied/associated city-state, and is…

Sun County, Prax

Posted on June 16, 2025

There’s about 19,000 people in Sun County, with some 4350 initiates of Yelmalio centered on the Sun Dome Temple. Throw in another 1000 Yelmalio cultists and lay members in Pavis County, and…

Hey that’s cool Jeff, but what the heck am I supposed to do with that in my Runequest game?

Posted on June 13, 2025

I posted two “deep” background articles on the nature of the Lunar Empire and Argrath’s role as a driver of change in Glorantha. Now a sensible question would be something like, “hey…

Introducing Gloranthan Gods and Cults

Posted on June 13, 2025

Gaming a lot of RuneQuest in a lot of different countries and with a lot of different cross-sections of the population as I do, a lot of people can easily get hung-up…

Argat / Arkat / Argrath

Posted on June 12, 2025

Here are a few more notes for Discord. Now from time to time, we get folk wanting to proclaim how much of a brutal extremist Argrath is, but to me those threads…

The Cycle of History

Posted on June 11, 2025

Some notes from a discussion on the Chaosium Discord channel where I discussed what I consider one of the key dynamics of the setting: The brutality of the Lunar Empire to its…

Magic Items and Runequest

Posted on June 8, 2025

So. Lets think of some of the categories they might come into: See also

The Grasslands of Prax

Posted on May 9, 2025

Something to keep in mind about Prax. The grasslands of Prax are fertile enough to support only about 70-80% of the requirements of the various tribes, but not all of them. That…

Praxian Kinship Groups

Posted on May 8, 2025

Praxian tribes are divided into smaller kinship groups or clans, with their herds. This is the basic unit for nomadic migration, although if resources permit, multiple clans might travel together, sharing grasslands….

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