Official Answers by Chaosium Adventure Book Tribal Wyter (page 14) Wyters casting Rune Magic When it says on page 15 “Spells: The Black Spear can cast any Rune spells known by the…
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CHA4028 RuneQuest: Roleplaying in Glorantha – Chapter 15 Spirits & the Spirit World Q&A
Official Answers by Chaosium This covers Chapter 15, pages 365-79: Negotiating with Spirits (page 365) Does that mean they can estimate the POW score of the other entity, but if that other entity has…
Greg Sez: Esrolian Q&A (2001)
Questions assembled from the Hero Wars mailing list, answers by Greg Stafford. 1. Are there any good pointers for Esrolian culture?A: “There is always another way.” They are not that different from…
Just Starting?
Glorantha Will be Overwhelming… If You Try to Do It All at Once. by Christopher Kubasik There is a tradition in RPG culture of the GM making, and knowing down to every…
Moon Design Glorantha Classics (1999-2005)
As one of the founders of Moon Design Publications, I am happy to summarize our first 4 main projects, aka the Gloranthan Classics line of books: Rick Meints 2019 Gloranthan Classics Volume…
ISS1301 Thunder Rebels – Player’s Book for Orlanthi Barbarians – The Thunder Rebels
Latest revision: 15 Dec 2000 We are Orlanthi. This is our Way. Talkative, simple, passionate, deep-hearted, life and laughter loving, direct, untroubled, unreflective, violent, restless, imaginative, stubborn. Such are the Heortlings. These…
The Lunar Empire is a universal empire
The Red Emperor does not acknowledge the existence of other peers – his sovereignty and lawful authority is everywhere touched by the light of the Red Moon (ie., the entire Surface World)….
Communication in the Lunar Empire
The Red Emperor has a much easier time communicating with the rest of his empire than say the Roman Emperor did. Distances To begin with the distances involved are much shorter. Just…
Part 11 – Non-chaotic Monsters of Pamaltela
AMPHISBOENA (Amphisboena cendrys) Bite 2W2+2, Scaly Hide +2, Agile 15W, Dodge Attack 5W, Jump 12W, Large 15, Roll Fast 8W, Tough 15W Venom: Debilitating, Lethal, Potency 15W2 Distribution: Jolar, Kothar Habitat: Plains…
One-Shot RuneQuest
I ran a four hour one-shot session of RuneQuest yesterday for some very wonderful players. Our intrepid group of Praxians – a pair of twins from the Sable Tribe, a young Bison…
Lismelder tribal lands
Here’s another sneak peak of the Sartar map. Here’s Lismelder land. One nice thing about this snippet here is that is shows just how close Delecti is to the Lismelder, and how…
Storm 1604: Jarolvale
Introduction: This episode formed the introduction to our Red Cow game. I wanted to introduce the players to the seemingly intractable hatreds permeating both the Red Cow and Split Waters clans fueled by…
Vasana & Yanioth’s Apprenticeship
Vasana’s Apprenticeship When she was 13, Vasana daughter of Farnan was initiated according to the tribal traditions of the Colymar. She was chosen by Vinga and pressed on to I Fought We…
Part 15 – Mermen
DWERULAN (Platyura pisces) Dagger or Spear Combat 17, Agile 5W, Alert 17, Dodge Attack 17, Hide in Cover 17, Hold Breath 18W, Set Trap 2W, Tough 10W, Wriggle Silently 5W, Initiate of…
An important insight into the Red Goddess
“Her Myth-Self does not properly sit with how the God Learners theorised how the God Time functions. The Red Goddess slices through our conception of the God Time at a right angle…
Interacting with the Hero Plane
Most cults limit their interaction with the Hero Plane to worship and other such ceremonies. The God Time is brought close, priests and initiates communicate with the Divine, draw upon the magic…
Hidden Shrine to Orlanth Victorious
Around 1619, Garrath Sharpsword aka Argrath Whitebull set up hidden shrine to Orlanth Victorious in the Big Rubble. From this shrine, Argrath and his friends and students regularly explore the Hero Plane…
Part 1 – Mundane Carnivores
Jackals (Canis aureus and others) Distribution: Wenelia, Kothar, Jolar Jackals are a similar size to foxes, with a coat of yellowish to black fur. They feed off carrion, scavenging the dead flesh that few…
Visiting Greg (2011)
Submitted by Claudia on Mon, 28/03/2011 – 17:04 As I wrote in the last Breakfast and Games we visited in January Greg Stafford. We drove from Seattle to San Francisco and one…
CHA4025 Guide to Glorantha – Index – N
Page numbers refer to the Guide to Glorantha: N (pages 782-783) Na 511 Nachor 417 Naga 702 Naginata 485, 533 Naiad 103 Naiads 103, 251 Nak 531, 532 Nakala 115, 228, 373,…
Neuauflage Life Action Trollball auf der Eternal Convention (2012)
Submitted by Joerg Baumgartner on Mon, 04/06/2012 – 10:13 Nachdem es mehrere Nachfragen gab, ob man Trollball nicht wieder aufleben lassen könnte – gerade auch mit Blick auf die vielen Kinder, die…
The Cult of Orlanth In Sartar
Orlanth is the patron god of the Kingdom of Sartar, and nowhere is his cult more fully developed. The three main subcults of Orlanth—Thunderous, Adventurous, and Rex—have temples and shrines throughout the…
Changing Gods
A few more notes on Changing Gods. At the Dawn, the Thunderer and the Adventurer were often worshiped as separate gods. Pretty quickly the Theyalans recognised both as aspects of Orlanth, and…
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…
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…