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Dragon Pass cuisine
Warning: You might get hungry while reading this. I know I got I just bought into the new RQG and I was completely blown away how the art really changed my perception of Glorantha. Previously I had...
View ArticleGloranthan Novel in Disguise
Has anyone read Queen's Heir by John Boyle? It is billed as 'A fantasy set amongst the Hittites at the end of the Bronze Age', but it's essentially a novel set in Glorantha, with Hittites for...
View ArticleBuilding a shrine
What does it take to build a shrine to, let's say, Orlanth? In RQG terms preferably.
View ArticleEscape from Boldhome, 1602
I'm planning to start my game (finally roped in enough suckers... err... players) this August and my initial idea is to do a flashback to the character's childhoods (the game is set in the 1610s) with...
View ArticleWyter of Pavis?
I have a stupid question after 30 years of Glorantha-hobby: what or who is the wyter of Pavis city itself? There are of course dozens of wyters in Pavis (temples, New Pavis, Old Pavis families, trolls...
View ArticleCasino Town Rumours [WIP]
The rumours provided here are spurs to adventure. The Game master should take care to present the rumours in an interesting manner, often with the intent of provoking actions by the players. Each...
View ArticleOther Cultures' Equivalent of Wyter
As far as I understand, wyters are a Orlanthi- or Theyalan-specific cultural concept, and not a "Glorantha-wide" concept (like, say, Runes). This made me wonder: plenty of other groups have spirits,...
View ArticleTwo Sisters Area
So I’m drawing up a map covering a 10x10 km area around Two Sisters. Exactly how close to the Upland Marsh is Two Sisters? Spitting distance? Kind of swampy? Or clearly outside of it? Also looking...
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Dara Happan map of irrigation
Clearly this is a Dara Happan map of irrigation ditches and canals, probably from vicinity of Raibanth, and including a number of towns and agricultural estates....
View ArticleWhat are the runes for Ygg
Hello, I need to know what are the runes for Ygg, one of my pc wants to create an Yggite character. Is the cult description in HQ1 still valid? And does anyone know what other cults can be found on...
View ArticleQuestions about Ygg, Yggites, and Wolf Pirates
How close does the Yggite society resemble the Terran Vikings and how much the Eskimos? There's not much information about Yggites or the Wolf Pirates. How many people live on Ygg's Isles? Are there...
View ArticleCan Humakti leave the service?
I'm playing a Humakti character. Her backstory is that she became a Humakti initiate after her family and clan were almost entirely murdered by her treacherous sister, who had become an initiate of...
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Curvature of Glorantha
Glorantha is supposed to be a flat world, so in theory it doesn't have any curvature, but this week-end I was wondering what that means for visibility distances and horizons and all that. It looks...
View ArticleWhy is there no Free Will Rune?
If magic arises from the tension between Immortal Destiny on the God plane and Mortal Free Will in the Middle World, why is there no Rune for Free Will? There's a Rune for Life, Death and Fate after...
View ArticleArfritha Vale
I've found some general info on Arfritha Vale, but not so much on specifics like Red Bird Fort or Famous Bell. Does anyone remember if there is anything published somewhere, maybe in some fanzine?
View ArticleNew York Review of Science Fiction on Glorantha and Greg Stafford, who looked...
"Glorantha is one of the richest and most vivid created worlds in fantasy, a world where everything from the dirt to the stars is literally made of mythology... (Greg) Stafford did more to advance the...
View ArticleShrinking the Upland Marsh?
I've been considering drawing up an RQG adventure/string of adventures that would involve trying to rollback the Upland Marsh, if only by a few inches. Do you all even think that this is even...
View ArticleBolthor: Who's son is he? Whose clan leader?
I'm running a Dorastor campaign and am about to come to the moment in 1622 when Bolthor is elected King. Hakon the Swimmer (unless someone tells me different!) died in Sacred Time 1621 when he...
View ArticleTell me more about Queen Leika
We know that Leika was exiled in 1615 and took refuge in the hall of King Broyan with her close supporters. Following the Colymar tribal rebellions of 1615 and 1616, many exiled and outlawed Colymar...
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