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Glorantha Quickstart: Bronze Age / Not really Bronze Age

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OK, this stuff is great.

My next question. Glorantha, and RuneQuest specifically have always been known as a "Bronze Age" setting/game. As Greg Stafford says in the foreword to the Guide: 

"Glorantha is the epic cross between the Iliad, Gilgamesh, and the Bhagavad Gita with the sword and sorcery of Robery E. Howard and the fantasy of Lord Dunsany.

Unlike most fantasy settings, Glorantha draws its inspiration for the ancient world. It has far more to do with Babylon, Classical Greece, Ancient China, Hybrid and Lankhmar that does with medieval Europe, Le Mort d'Arthur. pr the Hundred Years Wars. Its heroes are Achilles, Conan, Gilgamesh and Rostum, not Galahad, Lancelot or Roland."

(Greg also goes on to say "Glorantha is the technicolor cure for bland pseudo-medieval generic fantasy." I suspect that this comes from the fusion of the Bronze Age stuff, and the stuff that isn't.)

So what do you find satisfying Bronze Age about Glorantha?

What bits of Gloratha aren't? Does it matter?

 


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