Here’s a draft describing three of approximately twenty-eight Black Dragon Mountain pictoglyphs that will be included in the book. Several of the pictoglyphs will be included: 12. The Red Moon humans fight…
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Harrek the Berserk & Gunda the Guilty Art Preview
Another lovely picture by Mike Perry. Note that these match the description from Greg (whose notes with descriptions of Harrek going back to the 70s gave a big black mustache to the guy despite…
Sog City
Sog City (metropolis): Called Sogolotha Mambrola in the old tongue, this ancient city controls the area called Akem around the mouth of the Janube River. This huge, decadent city is a haven…
Guide Art Direction – Orlanthi (2013)
Orlanthi Culture Bronze Age/early Iron Age mixed agrarian-pastoralists. They are the most popular player culture. They are a heroic Bronze Age culture, organized by clan and tribe into (usually) short-lived kingdoms. They…
Guide Overview – Kralorela
Kralorela is a late Bronze Age/early Iron Age civilized empire that claims to have been civilized for 10,000 generations. The inhabitants are xenophobic and dismiss all other cultures as savages. The Kralorelans are…
Guide Interview – Jeff Richard
Bonus: Newt Newport of Hearts in Glorantha and D101 Games interviews Jeff regarding the Guide to Glorantha
Guide Interview – Rob Heinsoo
Guide to Glorantha Moon Design Video We interview Rob Heinsoo (D&D4e, 13th Age) regarding Glorantha and the forthcoming Guide to Glorantha. Part 2, where Rob discusses the influence of Glorantha on his…
Guide Art Direction – Hsunchen (2013)
Hsunchen peoples are stone-age hunter-gatherers. Small families wander about a territory while the men hunt, trap, and fish, and the women gather plant foodstuffs. The clothing of most hsunchen is of whatever…
Guide to the Guide to Glorantha
This was an update posting Here we show the current proposed contents of each of the volumes. The main text of the Guide is written and is going through editing. The stretch…
Art of the Guide to Glorantha
The Guide to Glorantha is lavishly illustrated by such artists as Jon Hodgson, Jeff Laubenstein, Mike Perry, and Jan Pospisil, as well as others. The entire Moon Design team has worked countless…
Kresh Wagon
One of the great Kresh wagons by Cory Trego-Erdner. This was originally posted on Google+… Tapatalk archive
The Gloranthan Sky
Here is a magnificent color map of the Gloranthan sky by Eric Vanel, with lots of input from Greg. We have an entire chapter on the Gloranthan Sky in the Guide, incorporating…
Snippet of Seshnelan History
Today’s random bit of history from the Guide: The history of Seshnela begins in the land of Brithos during the Great Darkness. To forestall civil war between himself and his brother, Talar…
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…
Malkioni Wizardry
Here’s a little primer on Malkioni wizardry from the Guide: The Malkioni venerate the Invisible God who created the Runes, worshiped as gods by the barbarians. The Runes, in turn, created lesser…
Dragonewt Roads Map
Morning’s sneak peak – a b&w draft version of the Dragonewt Roads map. The final will be color of course. This was originally posted on Google+… Now in the Tapatalk archive.
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…
An Esrolian painted amphora
An Esrolian painted amphora showing the Funeral of Ernalda and the Lightbringers Quest. This style of painted pottery is common throughout Dragon Pass, the Holy Country, Maniria, and even Ralios. By Cory…
The Gods Wall
Today’s sneak peek is a picture that took nearly 20 years to put together – the Gods Wall by Dan Barker! This is a greatly reduced version. This was posted on Google+…
Aldryami by Jeff Laubenstein
Here’s a selection of three elves done by Jeff Laubenstein, showing the diversity in Aldryami appearance. Archived G+ post, Tapatalk archives
The Mostali certainly aren’t generic fantasy… (2013)
Morning sneak peak – a quartet of dwarves by Jeff Laubenstein. The Mostali certainly aren’t generic fantasy dwarves any more! Wait until people find out what the Mostali are up to in…
Waertagi dragon ship by Jeff Laubenstein (2013)
Sketch of a waertagi dragon ship by Jeff Laubenstein. As always this is just the rough draft. This was posted on Google+, Tapatalk archive.
London Calling… A wonderful presentation on the Guide to Glorantha project (2013)
Submitted by Rick on Sat, 05/01/2013 – 14:18 To help explain all of the wonderful contents and the epic scope of the Guide to Glorantha project we enlisted the aid of Nick…
Art Direction for Cover of the Guide
Submitted by Jeff on Thu, 01/11/2012 – 12:55 The Guide to Glorantha is a special book and needs a special cover. This is the story of the evolution of the cover from…
Guide text Finished
Submitted by Jeff on Fri, 05/10/2012 – 08:41 I apologize for being quiet the last couple of months, but I have been feverishly working to get the Guide to Glorantha finished so…