This is another one of those posts about scale. Pavis County and Sun Dome County are where New Pavis, the Big Rubble, and the Sun Dome Temple of Prax are located. It…
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RuneQuest session
Last night’s RuneQuest session involved our intrepid adventurers and their dozen or so followers and mercenaries fight their way through zombies and skeletons into Blind King’s Castle. They succeed, although in the…
Chaos Gods WiP preview
A snippet of the Chaos gods by the amazing Agathe Pitié! BTW, are you aware that is the same name as one of the students of Wilms, and the same person who…
Sartar Telmori
Another Sartarite group that is curiously neglected in many campaigns are the Telmori. There are 6500 Telmori – Chaos-tainted werewolves, disliked by every other tribe (except the ducks who are apathetic) who…
A Sense of Size I
The Lunar Empire rules somewhere around 410,000 square km, including the Heartlands, West Reaches, and Provinces. That’s about the same size as Iraq or a little larger than the state of California….
RuneQuest NPCs
When starting up opponents in RQ, most of the stats generally don’t matter that much except the following: So example -Borgo the Dark Troll Bam! That took about 30 seconds to jot…
Jerry Cornelius in Glamour
Some might view Glamour as being inhabited by investigators like Griselda. Me, I think the proper vibe for a Glamour investigator is J. Cornelius. With adventures like “J. Cornelius and the Madness…
Orlanth Rex and Sartar’s Lineage
The priesthood of the cult of Sartar – that’s the Orlanth Rex for all the tribes of Sartar, aka the Prince of Sartar – is restricted to members of Sartar’s lineage. Generally…
Kings and Kingship
An interesting snippet from Grainger’s “Kings and Kingship in the Hellenistic World, 350-30 BC”: “For the ordinary population, the king was akin to a natural force, a power of nature. He was…
Honor and War
This section helps explain some of the peculiarities of Orlanth warfare: Some of the most important Orlanthi war gods demand that Death be wielded with honor and the Humakt cult upholds the…
Brolia and Anadiki
Some 150,000 Orlanthi live in the foothills north of the Western Rockwoods, in Brolia and Anadikki. The population density here is about 6 people per square km, a little more than half…
Ralios Orlanthi
The Holy Country has about 357k Orlanth initiates (and I mean initiate of Orlanth, not Orlanthi culture). Peloria has 225k and Dragon Pass has just under 100k. But Ralios has some 560k…
Zzaburi in the West
There are somewhere around 120,000 zzaburi in Seshnela and Ralios. Now of them, about 79,000 adhere to the Rokari school. That’s the approximate number of trained sorcerers in that area. This number…
Cults of Glorantha Art Preview – Raveena
I’ve been posting a few previews of art for the forthcoming Cults of Glorantha books, but there’s another beautiful book already in art production – the Sartar boxed set. And here’s just…
RuneQuest Design Decisions
So I figure I’d walk folk through some of the design decisions behind the current RQ releases. 1. The Cults Book underpins everything. If you want to have Lunars, Praxians, Balazarings, Sartarites,…
Notes on the Grazelands II
The dominant cult in the Grazelands is Ernalda, with some 9250 initiates out of a total adult population of around 26,000. The Ernalda cult dominates the Grazelands like no place outside of…
Changing History in the Hero Wars
The approach is the same as in a game like Pendragon (where Arthur, Lancelot, Merlin, etc. are NPCs). Here’s the advice the forthcoming RQ Campaign book has: We encourage you to include…
Sartarite Tribal Assemblies
King of Dragon Pass and Thunder Rebels presented Sartarite tribal assemblies as pretty standardised events, like some small town city council meeting. However, in truth there’s little difference between a Sartarite tribal…
Belintar the Patron
Over his centuries of rule, Belintar attracted and patronised many visionary and unorthodox thinkers. Aggressive reincarnation, philosophies of Luck and Fate (“our Lady giveth and she taketh away”), God Learner apologists, monomyth…
Hero Wars / Battle of Heroes
We all know that the RQG default setting is the Hero Wars, but it is worth remembering that term is likely anachronistic- I think the first use of the phrase is as…
Orlanth and the Red Goddess
Here’s a popular Orlanthi tale of the rise of the Red Goddess. This is similar to the story presented in King of Sartar. Orlanth is the god who began the Great Compromise,…
The Second Lunar Occupation of Dragon Pass
Jotting down a few notes for my RQ and Cthulhu games I’ll be running at Chaosium Con, and had a crazy idea of doing an RQ short campaign set around 1645, during…
Military Might in 1625
In 1625, the most powerful military in Glorantha is the Lunar Army. A handful of fast and powerful units offered a strong advance fighting force, and careful timing gave the empire almost…
Notes on Boldhome under the Lunar Occupation (1602-1625)
When the city fell in 1602, the Red Emperor first appointed Euglyptus the Fat, an imperial noble, as governor. A good Yelmite and Red Goddess initiate from Raibanth, I doubt Euglyptus had…
Boldhome Embassies
In general, Gloranthan kingdoms and empires send representatives to each other’s countries to negotiate on specific issues, such as war, peace, or trade relations. Sometimes, a high status member of one kingdom…