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VASSAL

VASSAL is a game engine for building and playing online adaptations of board games and card games. You can use Vassal to play in real time over the Internet or by email….

Major RuneQuest Settings – Dragon Pass & Prax

Posted on December 13, 2023

Dragon Pass and Prax are the settings for the overwhelming majority of all RQ games ever played (a distant third is Balazar from the RQ2 days). In the coming year, we are…

Dragon Pass: The Return of Argrath and the Lunar Empire Wars

Posted on November 15, 2023

This was the name of the second edition of the board game previously called White Bear and Red Moon. This board game was the origin of Sartar, the Lunar Empire, and the…

Harrek the Berserk

The White Bear, Demigod Warlord and Reaver Write up Page Year Runes Notes Prosopaedia 53 2023 Prosopaedia entry CHA1001-X Dragon Pass 1980 None listed Counter Wyrm’s Footnotes #3 18 1977 Rune Units

Notes on Beast People

Posted on April 5, 2023

There are some 25,000 Beast People and another 10,000 Ducks in Dragon Pass. The Beast Men include centaurs, ducks, minotaurs, satyrs, manticores, tiger-men, bird women, fox women, bug heads, and often many…

Argrath

Hero Write up Page Year Runes Notes Prosopaedia 9 2023 Glorantha Sourcebook 206 2018 None listed In Heroes of The Hero Wars Dragon Pass 1983 None listed Counter Wyrm’s Footnotes #3 18…

Androgeus

Hero of the Suffering Write up Page Year Runes Notes Prosopaedia 7 2023 Prosopaedia entry Glorantha Sourcebook 209 2018 None listed In Heroes of The Hero Wars Dragon Pass 18 1983 None…

Apotheosis of the Red Goddess

Posted on January 1, 2023

In 1247 the Red Goddess performed her final dance some 50 km to the northwest of Raibanth. A huge crimson sphere, some 40 km in diameter, rose from earth and continued to…

Notes on Jar-eel the Razoress I

Posted on December 25, 2021

Arguably the mightiest hero in Glorantha at this time is Jar-eel the Razoress. She has loads of titles – Fourth Inspiration of Moonson, Incarnation of the Red Goddess in Time, daughter/lover/mother of…

White Bear & Red Moon and Belintar

Posted on July 26, 2021

Armed with this information you now know about Belintar, the Sartar Dynasty, and the Masters of Luck and Death, things can get really interesting.

Moon Phases

Posted on March 25, 2021

This may be my single most repeatedly used reference picture in all of RuneQuest.

What is White Bear & Red Moon?

Posted on March 4, 2021

So you might be wondering what is with all these posts referring to White Bear & Red Moon? As I work on the RQ Campaign book, the connection between it and WBRM…

The Sartar Army

Posted on March 4, 2021

I’ve posted earlier versions of this before, but I think this might be interesting to some. This is the edited and revised overview of the Sartar Army for the forthcoming reprint of…

Battle of Heroes

Posted on October 7, 2020

Here’s my official WBRM style overview of the Battle of Heroes in 1628. I did it Greg style – I played it out on the board! The Battle of Heroes Background Following…

Argrath’s Army

Posted on October 7, 2020

This is some material in the new Big Rubble and Pavis books and is circa 1625-1626. Note the embryonic Magical Union! Those watching the White Bull campaign have likely gotten a preview…

Jaldon Toothmaker

Waha Hero Cult Jaldon was a famous Rune Lord of a previous age who managed to unify all of the tribes to help in the destruction of the Empire of the Wyrms…

Heroes Magazine (1984-1986)

Heroes was a short-lived magazine published by Avalon Hill beginning in 1984. At the time Avalon Hill was trying to expand into the role-playing industry through the publication of four games: James…

CHA1001 White Bear & Red Moon / Dragon Pass (1975-1988)

Editions & Related Editions SKU Year Name & Edition Publisher Notes CHA1001e1 1975 White Bear & Red Moon, 1st edition Chaosium CHA1001e2 1976 White Bear & Red Moon, 2nd edition Chaosium 800…

Dragon Pass Boardgame Map

Posted on September 17, 2014

Did I mention that Moon Design has the original version of this without hexes? The plan for the Mythic Map is not to exactly reduplicate this map, but to use the style…

Glorantha Sourcebook Kickstarter

Posted on September 16, 2014

The Glorantha Sourcebook for the 13th Age in Glorantha Kickstarter is being set circa 1627 so that we can finally get a chance to game when the Hero Wars are in full…

Experimental Mapping

Posted on September 2, 2013

Just as an experiment, Colin and I overlaid the Dragon Pass board game map over our Dragon Pass region map. Wonderful success! Most board game locations were within a hex of the…

Dragon Pass on YouTube

Posted on August 20, 2013

Here’s a tutorial for the classic Dragon Pass wargame on YouTube. This was posted on Google+ (Tapatalk archive)

Red Emperor

Masks of the Red Emperors Name Date(s) Source(s) Page Doskalos 1245 Takenegi 1250-1390, 1391-1415, 1428-1449 Lunar Way 106 Magnificus 1460-1506 Lunar Way 106 Artifex 1506-1522 Lunar Way 106 Voracius 1522-1529 Lunar Way…

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