Continuum attendees! Remember to check out Claudia Loroff‘s seminar on Earth cults in RuneQuest later this morning! She just called me up earlier to ask me a question about the eunuch dancers who…
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Mantis
I love Cory Trego-Erdner’s art in the Bestiary. Loved it when I first commissioned it, love it even more in the book!
So what is YOUR favourite beast from the RQ Bestiary?
Mine is the War Triceratops with its Dragonewt mahout: I would have loved to do even more art, but keep in mind, every illustration is by Cory. Which is a LOT of…
Page 6
BTW, when using or reading the RQG rules, the boxed text on page 6 provides a very important rule of interpretation: Maximum Game Fun. If an interpretation of a rule interferes with…
Sartar on a rare sunny day in Storm season
If you ever want a good feel for Sartar on a rare sunny day in Storm season, check out the Vinschgau in Sudtirol.
Notes on the Feathered Horse Queen Dynasty
The Feathered Horse Queens are the most important Earth priestesses of Dragon Pass (and often paired with the High Priestess at the Shaker Temple – they always address each other as “sister”). The following…
The Guide has left the Building
Update: The Guide is back! Go to Chaosium.com This is very bittersweet news for me. I just turned off sales of the physical copies of the Guide to Glorantha. We’ve sold everything…
Gods of Fonrit
A snippet from an old Jrusteli account of Fonrit. I’d date this to about 890 ST: Gods of FonritIn Fonrit, the people worship demigods who they say restored the Cosmic Court of…
Esrolians Queens since 1461
A little more information on Nochet. Here is a crude family tree of the queens since 1461. Esrolian queens tend to rule until they: (1) die or are killed; (2) are removed…
Nochet, City of Queens with map
Nochet is City of Queens, the emerald jewel of Esrolia, and the greatest and most important city in the world. It is the favorite resting place of Esrola, and home to many thousands…
Nochet, City of Queens
Nochet is the greatest and most important city in the world, and the greatest city for a thousand miles in all directions. It is the favorite resting place of Esrola, and it…
Guide to Glorantha wins Silver ENnie for Best Cartography
Gen Con – The Guide to Glorantha picked up the 2015 Silver ENnie for Best Cartography at the awards ceremony tonight – congratulations to master mapmaker Colin Driver who was responsible for the…
Moon Design wins 2015 Diana Jones Award for Guide to Glorantha!
And the winner of the 2015 Diana Jones Award for gaming excellence is Moon Design Publications for The Guide to Glorantha! Greg Stafford and Jeff Richard happily accepted the award at the…
Inspiration for the Dragonspine
A glimpse of the nearby Dragonspine from Wintertop.
Inspiration for Kero Fin
My mental image for Kero Fin has always been Mount Rainier in Washington state, with the Dragonspine being the nearby mountains. Of course you have to imagine that atop Rainier is plopped…
Guide to Glorantha nominated for four ENnies
The Guide to Glorantha has been nominated for four ENnies: To say we are excited about this would be as much of an understatement as saying “Harrek the Berserk is a bit…
Esrolian Queens List
1. Bruvala (ruled 1461 to 1510). Called the High Queen, the Great, or the Mother of Queens, Bruvala was the greatest queen of Esrolia since the Second Age. She was born in 1441 to…
Print the Stafford Library at Lulu.com
We at Moon Design Publishing are proud to announce that our eight current titles in the Stafford Library are available for purchase at Lulu.com. You can search for Glorantha, or go directly…
HeroQuest Glorantha Pre-orders are now OPEN!
You can now pre-order HeroQuest Glorantha and get the PDF free to read while you wait for your book! HeroQuest Glorantha is the updated version of HeroQuest 2, specifically tailored to be…
The Gods War
This mystic diagram is from the House of Black Arkat in the Esrolian city of Arkat’s Hold. It depicts an Illuminate who has been guided by Arkat’s teachings to transcend the struggles…
HeroQuest Glorantha is nearly ready for release
Layout of HeroQuest Glorantha is FINISHED! And geez is this book beautiful. We are talking Guide to Glorantha level of beauty. The printed book will be 256 pages, color, and hardcover. It…
King of Sartar now available for pre-order
King of Sartar was, for me at least, the breakthrough book into understanding Glorantha and was (and still is) the foundational source for the Hero Wars. It also was a remarkable piece of experimental fiction – a…
Gloranthan Readings: Jorge Luis Borges – Collected Fiction
The Argentinian Jorge Luis Borges is my absolute favorite fantasy writer, despite not writing a single story that is classified as part of that genre. A master of the very short story…
Sartar Free Army
The look of the Sartarites and Praxians really gets to be on display in our forthcoming books. These are their own peoples, and it is wonderful to be working with artists like Jan…