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Daliath’s Well

Posted on December 7, 2022

At the bottom of the ocean is a Sacred Well that reaches down to the mysterious underworld waters of the Styx, the primal waters that arose from the Void. Those who drink…

Greater and Major Gods

Posted on December 7, 2022

So as I check over some of the material about to go to the printer soon, I was comparing things to a list Greg had written some years ago, listing all the…

Yelmalio Adventurers

Posted on December 4, 2022

Yelmalio is the Frontier God of Civilization. He brings Light to the quarrelling Storm tribes. He is a god of honour, a god of citizen-soldiers. He has a soldier aspect, a mystic…

Navigating the Hero Plane

Posted on December 4, 2022

So when thinking about any heroquest, I start by looking at one of Greg’s old Hero Plane maps. This is a map of archetypes – and not the same thing as the…

Dreams in RuneQuest

Posted on December 4, 2022

Many Gloranthan religions hold that dreams can be two types of experiences. The first is most common – expressions of inner desires, fears, random recollections, and so on. Such dreams may communicate…

The Man Rune

Posted on December 3, 2022

The Man Rune is the Form of all mortal sentient beings. The races of the Man Rune include trolls, elves, runners, dwarves, ducks, beastfolk, and triolini, as well as humans. It does…

Thoughts on city size

Posted on December 2, 2022

When we think about most cities in RuneQuest, they are pretty small. New Pavis is a little over 5000 people. Jonstown, Swenstown, and Wilmskirk are even smaller – none are more than…

Languages in Sartar

Posted on December 2, 2022

Let’s think a little bit about languages. So in Sartar pretty much everyone either speaks Sartarite (aka Heortling) or Old Tarshite as their first language. Pretty much everybody also some knows Tradetalk…

A God Forgot Story

Posted on December 2, 2022

Here’s a little story from God Forgot: “Long ago, before the Great Night, God-forgets was wandering upon the surface of the earth. His tribes clustered about his feet, basking in the holiness…

The Sixes in the Holy Country

Posted on December 2, 2022

In the Holy Country, the magical energies of the Sixes work together to complement each other. All Six are recognized by all and yet, each maintain their own identity. The Sixes and…

Quivin Mountains II

Posted on November 29, 2022

The Quivin Mountains are a massif of the Storm Mountains, a subrange separated from the main range by the 1000 meter high Sambarri Pass. The subrange is quite small, only about 35…

The East Wilds

Posted on November 28, 2022

The East Wilds were settled by colonists from Dragon Pass over 1400 years ago. The East Wilds are a rugged land, and many live by herding or hunting. Until the Dragonkill War,…

Peloria Climate

Posted on November 28, 2022

Peloria has a continental climate for the most part. Most of it is quite dry, with warm summers and cold winters. Without humans, most of Peloria would be grasslands and ripurian wetlands,…

Prax and the Genert Wastes

Posted on November 28, 2022

So let’s think a little bit about Prax. As we all know, Prax is the western and comparatively fertile part of the Genert Wastes. Prax gets about 46 cm of rain and…

The Guardian Hills

Posted on November 28, 2022

Swenstown, like most of Eastern Sartar, is in the rain shadow of the Quivin and Storm Mountains (and of course the Rockwoods as well). No gentle summer rains there – on average…

Cinsina Flats

Posted on November 26, 2022

Was driving through Sartar this afternoon. We were east of Jonestown in the Cinsina Flats. I have always pictured Sartar as a bit greener and more forested as well. it is early…

Saird and Lunar Tarsh

Posted on November 23, 2022

Thinking about Saird and Lunar Tarsh, there are far worse models than the Snake River Plain of Idaho. Grasslands, alluvial plains mixed with rolling hills, surrounded by a semibowl on snowy mountains.

Good Place

Posted on November 22, 2022

We zipped through the Good Place with the mountains of Dragon Pass in the distance. This is among the most fertile areas of Prax and you can see why it is fought…

Notes on the Upland Marsh I

Posted on November 22, 2022

We made a quick trek to the outskirts of the frozen Upland Marsh. We avoided the Blackthorn trees and were in daylight so no signs of vampires or ghouls. Pretty sure there…

Quivin Mountains I

Posted on November 22, 2022

Spend a long day driving around Dragon Pass yesterday with the family. Here’s a great view of the Quivin Mountains from near Gold Lamb Hill. You can even see the valley of…

Why RuneQuest?

Posted on November 20, 2022

Playing RuneQuest lets us do many things. We can have an exciting epic fantasy adventure in an ancient world, like Conan, Red Sonja, Odysseus, or Alexander. It lets us imagine a world…

Lay Members

Posted on November 20, 2022

Being a lay member of a secondary cult is a useful way to gain training and spirit magic, without binding yourself deeply to the god and its cult. So for example, IMG,…

Battle Rules

Posted on November 17, 2022

Something I have long been frustrated by is the tendency that RPG battle rules have always been mass combat rules designed to determine the winner of a battle, rather than something player…

Four Ways to Experience these Stories (re-post)

Posted on November 17, 2022

As Cults gets closer and closer to some big and exciting announcements, here’s a little passage that I think is particularly important for this forum: Four Ways to Experience these Stories Myths…

Heracles on the Argos

Posted on November 15, 2022

If you are playing in the RQ Campaign, sooner or later your player characters are going to cross paths with the likes of Harrek, Prince Argrath, Gunda, the Feathered Horse Queen, Jaldon…

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