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Tag: Dragon Pass (board game)
Major RuneQuest Settings – Dragon Pass & Prax
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
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
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
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…
Yelmalio Adventurers
Yelmalio is the Frontier God of Civilization. He brings Light to the quarrelling Storm tribes. He is a god of honour, a god of citizen-soldiers. He has a soldier aspect, a mystic…
RuneQuest Campaign phases
As I work on the overall structure of the “RuneQuest Campaign” or the “Grand Argrath Campaign”, there’s some big differences between it and the Boy King campaign that I wanted to talk…
Notes on Jar-eel the Razoress I
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
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
This may be my single most repeatedly used reference picture in all of RuneQuest.
What is White Bear & Red Moon?
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
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
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
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…
Cragspider
The Firewitch Write up Page Year Runes Counters Notes Prosopaedia 24 2023 n/a Cults of Glorantha Preview 49 2019 per Rune spells n/a Subcult of: Aranea Cult Compendium 202 2002 None listed…
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 (1983)
Driven shamefully from his home, and his rightful throne, the valiant Prince Argrath lived long among the Nomad Tribes. After years of lonely exile, fate has called him forth to reclaim the…
Dragon Pass Boardgame Map
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
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
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…