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Badside – Outside Pavis & the Big Rubble

Posted on June 29, 2024

About 1490 there was a new settlement started outside of the walls of Pavis. It was called the City of Thieves (now called Badside), and it was permitted both as a favour…

Levels of The Big Rubble

Posted on June 9, 2024

SPOILERS AHEAD! If we think about the Big Rubble as a sprawling collection of dungeons, it has four basic levels: From a design and play perspective, the Big Rubble lets you introduce…

Central Genertela Map Overview

Posted on January 16, 2024

I often play around with putting different maps together in order to get a better feel for how Glorantha works. This is one of my favorite composite maps – it nicely shows…

Notes on the Big Rubble

Posted on January 15, 2024

The Big Rubble covers about 25 square km. With 6100 inhabitants, that’s almost 250 inhabitants per square km or 2.5 per hectare. In comparison, New Pavis with 28 hectares has 5150 inhabitants…

Alda-Chur Sketch Maps

Posted on June 26, 2023

So a sneak peak at some of my hand drawn maps which far better artists than I have drawn up for the Guide to Dragon Pass. So let’s start with Alda-Chur. Greg…

Western Mythical Age Maps (2003)

The western mythology divides history in Actions, after the Actions of Malkion. You can read more about the western mythic ages in the pre-finished work Revealed Mythologies.

Dunstop II

Posted on August 11, 2022

A few notes on the Tarshite city of Dunstop: Dunstop has a population of about 5k people and covers about 50 hectares. It is built on a low (30 meter high) hill…

CHA4038 The Pegasus Plateau & Other Stories – Q&A

Official Answers by Chaosium The Pegasus Plateau (pages 6-26) Maps of the Area There’s a slight map inconsistency between the RQSS map and the RQPP one, and lengthy textual description:  mainly significant…

Sun County Continued part 3

July 2021 by Michael O’Brien (Mob) Sea Season 1621 Sea Season 1621 – When word came that the Lunars had failed to stop the Giant Cradle at Pavis, Count Solanthos of Sun…

Reinforcing the Scale

Posted on March 12, 2021

From time to time it is worth reinforcing the scale of Dragon Pass and the Holy Country. So basically, Dragon Pass is about the size of Northern California from the south shore…

History of Kethaela – The Third Age

Posted on March 12, 2021

After the Dragonkill War, the Only Old One proved himself to be a troll in magical contest with Kajak-ab Brain Eater and so shared rule of Dragon Pass with the leaders in…

History Of Kethaela – The First Age

Posted on March 10, 2021

Kethaela is an ancient name for the region now called the Holy Country. The land was named for the goddess Ketha, the wife of Entru and mother of Entruli, who came from…

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…

Maps & Legends

Posted on January 28, 2021

I was sorting through some things when I came across these original maps from 1979. Drawn by William Church, they debuted in the 2nd edition RQ Rulebook. For years they were tacked…

Notes on the Holy Country II

Posted on June 12, 2020

By 1350, the Hendriki kingdom is gone. Heortland – named after the great cultural hero who was often invoked by Belintar – was a Sixth of the Holy Country. The God-King kept…

Dunstop I

Posted on April 8, 2020

A few notes on the Tarshite city of Dunstop: Dunstop has a population of about 5k people and covers about 50 hectares. It is built on a low (30 meter high) hill…

Nochet to Glamour at 1:400,000 scale

Posted on December 20, 2019

Admittedly Glamour is not in this picture as it is just beyond the field of vision. But I see Alkoth and even Raibanth. Each sheet is an A2, so about 24 x…

Dragon Pass Maps

Posted on November 4, 2019

What I love about these is I can get a much better feel for the vegetation and the amount of settlement. Dark green is forest (mainly pine), light green is mixed oak,…

Core homelands Maps

Posted on October 13, 2019

I present to you the full map of the core homelands in four pictures. Next is tweak a few details and then scan and print. To give you an idea of the…

Sartar Map Closeups

Posted on October 12, 2019

Some close ups of Sartar including one with the tribal overlay. How close were the RQ2 Trollpack maps to Greg’s map? Pretty close. A few minor errors here and there (even more…

Eastern Sartar and Prax

Posted on October 12, 2019

A few interesting features here – you can see that Pimper’s Block is in Balkoth tribal lands. Moonbroth is only about 40 km from Swenstown, and the Dead Place itself is only…

Esrolia Sketch Maps

Posted on October 11, 2019

All maps at 2cm = 8 km scale.

A Year Ago

Posted on October 10, 2019

A year ago I got the terrible news from Suzanne that Greg passed away. It seems fitting that I’ve been spending this week reconstructing his old master maps of Glorantha – some…

Dragon Pass and Kethaela Map

Posted on October 9, 2019

About 66% done on phase one! The whole of Dragon Pass and Kethaela at 2 cm = 5 miles scale. Altogether it is an A0 map. To get all of Prax in…

A preview of today’s work

Posted on September 21, 2019

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