Here’s a little chart I put together to help people answer the question – How Good Is My Skill?
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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…
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,…