I love this. I’m sure elders will jump in but Greg sez http://www.weareallus.com/chaosium/boardgames.html:
Nomad Gods was conceived as part of my initial fantasy board game series. I wanted to make a game that had no fixed territorial objective. I’d never seen such. I had recently read a book about the nomadic peoples of central Asia, and was considering a game in which the nomads were the antagonists, and the empires of Rome, the Middle East, India and China were just targets to be victimized. I transferred ideas from that to the fantasy game.
This game was my first exploration of Prax, its peoples, and of the lost city of Pavis. I had wanted to make the nomadic tribes distinct, and decided that differentiating the creatures they rode would be a good way to individualize the tribes. Once again, the board game defined a large part of Glorantha and established the ground upon which 30 later years of Glorantha publication has grown.
After that, I recall hearing that Steve Perrin’s game was in Pavis and so between that and Nomad Gods, Prax seemed like a good tactical choice for the first cults book. (Happy to be corrected here.) And then they were off and running!
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