Also published in parts in Rule One The Testimonial “When you speak of me, tell of yourself first,” said the Goddess. She was instructing her followers how to teach others about Her. “How…
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CHA4032 RuneQuest Glorantha Bestiary – Spell List
For reference Rune Spells Rune Spell Name Page RBM Cult Animate War Tree 27 12 Aldrya Appease Earth 69 13 Bloody Tusk Arrow Trance 27 13 Aldrya Attack Soul 81 13 Kyger…
Campaign Log – Book Six – Appendices & Afterthoughts
Appendix A Map of the Tunneled Hills and the Plateau of Statues The Hills and Plateau combined are some 200 kilometers in the north-south direction and 80 kilometers at the widest in…
Excerpt – Hero Wars, Introduction (2000)
Welcome to the Hero Wars The World is Ending The Hero Wars mark the end of Glorantha. Or at least, the End of the World as we Know it. Monstrous dangers have…
ISS1101 Hero Wars – Contents
Table of Contents collected by Charles Corrigan. Table of Contents PrefaceChapter 1, Getting startedChapter 2, CharactersChapter 3, Character KeywordsChapter 4, Playing Hero WarsChapter 5, Basic MagicChapter 6, Theist MagicChapter 7, Sorcerous MagicChapter…
ISS1104 Narrator’s Book – Contents
Table of Contents collected by Charles Corrigan. Table of Contents Introduction Chapter 1, Narrating the Game Chapter 2, Otherworld Magic Chapter 3, Relationships Chapter 4, Sample Hero Bands Chapter 5, Creatures Chapter…
Notes on Zzabur
Now we all know this guy – the son of Malkion in most stories, and the First Wizard. Supposedly he’s been around for more than five thousand years and is the master…
The Middle Sea Empire
The most wide-spanning empire of Gloranthan history was the Middle Sea Empire, also called the Jrusteli Empire. Its core was city-states of the island-continent of Jrustela who were tightly allied with the…
Notes on the Malkioni
I was recently talking to Nick Brooke about the Third Age Malkioni of Seshnela and Fronela. I thought I’d share some of those notes, as much to remind me of them! The…
The Lunar Coders – Maculus Notes
Copyright © 1996, 1999 by Michael O’Brien Of all the Lunar Coders, Maculus – the eccentric and unnaturally aged Red Goddess sorceror – was the most fun to dream up. I had…
Notes from Nochet from Tales of the Reaching Moon #10
More entries from Goliard’s Ten Thousand Gods of the East Isles… [XXIX. 21-014.e] The lonely Isle of Pines is a beautiful place, inhabited by the handsomest people of all the East Isles. They live…
Broken Empires, Gods, and Ideas
Arkat was the most terrifying mortal to walk the world. He built no new empires, ruled nothing but his companions, and built little. Instead, Arkat broke empires, gods, and even ideas. Think…
Notes on Kralorela I
Kralorela has some 8.9 million people and covers around 625,000 square km. Kralorela is a relatively narrow arable band of land, islands, and shallows seas no more than 500 km wide, between…
More New Hrestolism Thoughts
New Hrestolism is arguably a more radical religious movement than even the Lunar Way. I don’t mean the “class mobility” features, that’s just a subset of it. With the Ban, the divine…
Notes on the Lhankor Mhy cult
The Lhankor Mhy cult are famed as the lovers of wisdom (philosophers) and knowledge (philognosis) in Dragon Pass and the Holy Country. In the First Age, the priests of the Knowing God…
Cultural changes in Genertela 350-500 ST
The years 350-500 witnessed radical cultural changes in Genertela. First the Theyalans (and trolls, dragonewts, elves, and dwarves) entered into a short-lived union with the Dara Happans. Although this union broke apart,…
Essential Cults for Adventuring
I think the four essential cults for adventuring – and for quickly getting the setting – are probably Orlanth Adventurous, Chalana Arroy, Issaries, and Lhankor Mhy (which also introduces sorcery). Think of…
Part 18 – Spirits & Undead
MUMMY Close Combat 15W, Dessicated Skin +1, Fanatical 10W, Fearless 15W, Know Myths 10W, Strong 15W, Tough 12W, Devotion to local deity 10W Distribution: Kethaela, Fonrit, Errinoru Habitat: Civilised areas Mummies are…
A Sense of Size II
Genertela is nearly 9,000,000 square km in area. That’s more than twice the size of the European Union or a little smaller than continental Europe. Or for us North Americans, it is…
Books in RuneQuest
Mechanically, a book ought to add +1D4x5% to one or more skills. Some might also provide knowledge in one or more sorcerous Runes or Techniques and even provide knowledge of specific sorcery…
ISS3007 Arcane Lore – Index
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Safelster Political Map
Today’s sneak peak – a glimpse at Safelster! This is one of the most urbanized areas of Glorantha, with about a dozen city-states jostling for power and dominion, with the great kingdom…
Tapping
From the Guide, here’s one more foundational stone of Malkioni magic – Tapping: Tapping is the sorcerous conversion of a local manifestation of a Rune into raw magical energy, which then can…
Arkat
Ancient hero, The Traitor, The Troll A famous hero of the Gbaji Wars, whose passion to destroy his enemy overcame his common sense, spirituality, and finally, even his humanity. Write up Page…
Dragon Pass – A brief outline
The setting for RuneQuest is the area called Dragon Pass. Dragon Pass is the crossroads of the northern continent of Genertela, and is the only passage for large armies through the Rockwood…