Tag: Michael O’Brien

What is Darkness? (1998)

By Michael O’BrienCopyright © 1998 by Michael O’BrienFirst published in The Book of Drastic Resolutions Volume Darkness (1998) Drastic Rez Editor Stephen Martin wanted a series of short narratives from assorted native Gloranthans answering the…

The Men With the Golden Gun (1999)

The “Cackhanders” First published in The Booke of Tentacles II (German RQ Con 1999 Fundraiser Book)Copyright © 1999 by Michael O’Brien Men of Gold The elite fighting force of Sun County, the famous…

Pent Ridge – The Sun County Prison (1998)

First published in The Booke of Tentacles (German RQ Con 1998 Fundraiser Book)Copyright © 1998 by Michael O’Brien.Invaluable Technical Advice: Joerg Baumgartner Beg the Count to pluck out your eyes rather than send…

Mad Prax – Beyond Sun Dome (1991)

Copyright © 1991 by Michael O’Brien(portions inspired/gratuitously ripped off from Pavis, Copyright © 1983 Chaosium Inc.)Permission is freely given for personal gaming use. Introduction This is a very traditional pre-MGF slice-n-dice RQ tournament…

Last Tango in Pavis – Tournament (1993)

Copyright © 1993 by Michael O’Brien and Brian HebertPermission is freely given for personal gaming use. Introduction This tournament was first played at Necronomicon III in Sydney, New South Wales in 1993, Convulsion ’94 in Leicester,…

The Nochet Hippodrome

Copyright © 1999 by Michael O’Brien [XXIX.loznoch.1/intr] From the “Lonely Lozenge Guide to Nochet”, by Beardless Beornie Oban (Rough Guide Scrolls, Mirin’s Cross 7/48) The Hippodrome is, to perhaps even a greater…

The Port of Nochet

First published in Tradetalk issue #4Copyright © 1998 by Michael O’Brien The unique geography of the Holy Country is well suited to water transport.  A succession of wide, sedate rivers empty into…

“Furious Faction Fighting”

First published in Tales of the Reaching Moon issue #4Copyright © 1990 by Michael O’Brien & Trevor Ackerly THIS IS A DOCUMENT OF LHANKOR MHY, LORD OF THE LIGHT OF INSPIRATION AND SEEKER OF…

Notes from Nochet

Introduction First published in Tales of the Reaching Moon issue #4Copyright © 1990 by Michael O’Brien & David Hall The “Jonstown Compendium” was first introduced to us in the RuneQuest Companion. A fantastic collection of…

Esprit de Corps

Gifts and Geases for Humakt Allied Spirits by Michael O’Brien Originally published in Tales of the Reaching Moon issue #5, the ‘Humakti Special’ (Spring 1991) An allied spirit, according to Gods of Glorantha,…

The MGF Rules System

Maximum Game Fun First published in Enclosure I and Questlines II.Copyright © 1997 by Michael O’Brien As we all know, the Maximum Game Fun principle is simple: in a nutshell, when writing,…

Da Roolz

Glorantha’s most exciting cultural export Rules devised by Michael O’Brien and Nils K. Hammer, ©1994 Inspired by Chaosium’s RuneQuest supplement Troll Pak, ©1982 and with thanks to John Hughes, the original ‘Bhagwan’…

An Introduction to Live Action Trollball

Glorantha’s Most Exciting Cultural Export To feature in the summer 1998 issue of Metagame magazine. Parts of this article appeared in Tales of the Reaching Moon issue #8Copyright © 1998 by Michael…

A Hard Landing

First published in Tales of the Reaching Moon issue #10Copyright © 1990 by Michael O’Brien “Come on Murph old pal, you gotta sponsor me in. I can handle a blade as good as anyone,…

Moonson’s Number Two 

First read at Convulsion 3D, Leicester, UK 1996.Copyright © 1996 by Michael O’Brien A companion piece to The Son of Light Awakens and thematically linked to Nick Brooke’s Yolanela Spurned. Long grey fingers – the…

The Son of Light Awakens

A companion piece to Yolanela Spurned (by Nick Brooke)Copyright © 1996 by Michael O’Brien Picture if you can, my dear reader, Moonson, standing before one of the vast windows of his Sacred Bed Chamber,…

Jaxarte and the Emperor

First published in Reaching Moon Megacorp’s Rough Guide to Glamour Copyright © 1997 by Michael O’Brien The Coders Cometh In 1620 the Lunar government dispatched the Coders, their finest and most trusted…

Jaxarte and the Chaos Fiends

First published in Tales of the Reaching Moon issue #8 Copyright © 1995 by Michael O’Brien Shortly after Jaxarte’s recovery from his ill-fated mission as a Lunar emissary to the Bison tribe…

Jaxarte and the Bison Khan

First published in Tales of the Reaching Moon issue #6 Copyright © 1995 by Michael O’Brien Jaxarte Hits the Plaines After his eventful yet relatively safe journeys to Sun County and Weis…

Jaxarte on the Borderlands 

First published in Tales of the Reaching Moon issue #5Copyright © 1991 by Michael O’Brien Weis DomainJaxarte’s first journey in his capacity as Commissioner of the Imperial Census was to Sun County, where his political…

Jaxarte at the Sun Dome

First published in Tales of the Reaching Moon issue #3Copyright © 1990 by Michael O’Brien This account, taken from the shelves of the Pavis Temple of Knowledge, gives the reader an insight into contemporary…