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Eurmali heroquest ideas

So I'm running a HeroQuest Glorantha game set (for now) in Esrolia, fighting Wolf Pirates, Horse-Spawn raiders, and Lunar mercenaries trying to carve a realm out of the Holy Country. To help with the...

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Deep background history of the Sun Dome Temple

And another really interesting post from Jeff on Facebook, this time about the deep background history of the Sun Dome Temple. As part of a project, I have put together a deep background history of...

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Named Praxian Clans

I've seen a topic or two (most recently the one on the Morokanth) asking about named Praxian clans, and I figured since I have the spare time I'd look through a few likely suspects to find clans (and...

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Keeper of the Book

Does anyone know anything about the Keeper of the Book that lived in the City of Wonders pre 1625. I am assuming it refers to the keeper  of Belintar's book?

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It's 1627, do you know where your Gringle and Piku are?

My players are wanting to find Gringle and/or Piku (or Piku's son Wakapo) as they continue to put Apple Lane back together post-Dragonrise. I'm interested in theories as to where each ended up. By my...

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Breathe Life Into Art - What god is this spell from?

I love this spell and am wondering about ways it could become more like the magic Lalo the Limner performs in the book series Thieve's World.  But danged if I can guess what god gives this spell out....

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heroquest knowledge

Thanks to whitebull campaign, I start to understand the future rules of heroquestiong and I think the episode 29 "propose" very nice rules, by the way(of course that s just an overview and some points...

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Mining in Dragon Pass region

Jeff provided these insights on Facebook to mining in Dragon Pass and surrounding lands: This is a tentative summary of the main mining sources of metals in Dragon Pass and the Holy Country. Bronze...

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Your Dumbest Theory

I know I've come up with some whoppers over the years but tonight I can no longer shake the suspicion that the whole Third Age cult around "heroes" is actually rooted in a faulty transmission of the...

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How Humakt Learned to Grieve (Jonstown Compendium)

I am pleased to announce a new Jonstown Compendium title from Chris Bell and Simon Phipp. How Humakt Learned to Grieve is a systemless collection of four HeroQuests: How Humakt Learned to Grieve...

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Is the Lunar Goddess a Face of Wakboth?

Is the goddess a mask of the Devil? Or is it possible for the Goddess to be strengthened by chaos, yet reject and somehow separate herself from the nihilistic destruction represented by the chaos gods...

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Sky realm Qs

Hi, random Qs from running the Boat Planet/Sky Ship quest in my Western Glorantha game: If you are in the Sky realm, looking up from the Sky River toward the top of the dome, is the 'sky' golden not...

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Consequences for Killing Major Named NPCs

So my players are going to attempt to kill Harrek the Berserk in the next few sessions of our HQ:G game. Due to a heroquest performed by the party Trickster (who's now Illuminated as a side effect of...

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Vangono's 'Three Types of Flame'

Does anyone know (or fancy speculating) what Pamaltelan war god Vangono's three types of flame breath might be? Given that the Vangono Recruitment Song in Arcane Lore mentions that "Now the time is...

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How dependent on mortals are the gods?

Are they completely reliant on worship and sacrifice to keep them alive, a la American Gods and Discworld? Do they have completely separate existences like Forgotten Relms, say? Can people just make...

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The Curious Case Of Erotocomatose Lucidity

So we all know the Uleria spell reflects a divinatory technique promoted under that name by Aleister Crowley. Greg was in touch with a lot of deep cats, read widely and Chaosium publications have...

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Enter a Podcast of Wonder

Enter a podcast of wonder A grizzled old man with a poorly constructed box under his arm limps into the centre of the dusty square, coughs and wipes phlegm speckled lips, scratches his butt and spits....

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Some questions about the Lismelder and Yelmalio/Elmal

I've been looking into the Lismelder tribe and I have some questions to which I have found no answer and maybe some here have them and want to discuss them: On the wiki it's stated that (I assume by...

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The Boat Planet Sky World Quest

Hi all! Our 11L RQG campaign has us in Earth Season 1623: the Culbrea are being annoying and the Lunars are starting to catch on about the Three Stars.  So the PCs are cleverly looking to find Kallyr...

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Punching out your mint copy of Nomad Gods for playtesting purposes: that is...

The sacrifices  @Andrew Bean makes for The Chaosium: punching out his pristine personal copy of Nomad Gods (1994 French edition) for today's playtesting session with board games editor Susan: During...

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