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…
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Greater and Major Gods
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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?
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
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
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)
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
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…