Heroquest Gifts from Liberating the Soul of Hofstaring Treeleaper
Has anyone played this heroquest on RQG? What did your heroes get as heroquest gifts? I have no idea, what those should be like. How powerful? And do all heroes get something?
View ArticleChaosium-sponsored Glorantha convention in Melbourne, Australia this November
See the RuneQuest forum for more details: Note: this is a different event to Chaosium Con Down Under, being run by Chaosium itself in Sydney Australia on May 2-3, 2020.
View ArticleErnaldan manipulation at the largest scale
recently, I've been thinking about the claims that Ernalda was/is Arachne Solara/Ginna Jar. To me, this smacks of seriously large scale manipulation of the Hero Plane and God Place. Ernaldan temples...
View ArticleWhat Were the Talastarings Before the Dawn?
A fairly quick question: The Talastarings were contacted by the Unity Council around 100 after the Dawn, and maintained relations/joined them after that. They seem to have organized from nine clans to...
View ArticleSartar politics in 1626
I'll be starting up my campaign again soon after a short hiatus. We are entering Fire Season of 1626, which means the Battle of Queens is coming up. My players took part in the last big battle at...
View ArticleIntroducing the Jonstown Compendium: Glorantha community content on DTRPG
Over on the RuneQuest forum we've got a preview post up about the JONSTOWN COMPENDIUM, our forthcoming community content resource for Glorantha on DriveThruRPG (very similar to our existing Miskatonic...
View ArticlePiracy and Slavery!
So this article gives a quick rundown on ancient (bronze-age) piracy, how they operated, and what might motivate slavers. Slavery is unabashedly the worst - but the ca$h values discussed in this...
View ArticleClan tattoos, marriage, divorce and other separation
I understand the adulthood initiation rites to bestow (at least the magical outlines) for the new adult's tattoos, and that includes his or her tattoos signifying their birth clan. However, upon...
View ArticleFavorite weird factoid or detail from Glorantha
What's your favorite weird factoid or detail from Glorantha? Indulge me, because there's so much good stuff I have two: a priestess of Xiola is required to be present for every game of trollball "but...
View ArticleWeAreAllUs: play RQ or HQG and honor Greg Stafford, October 10 - 31
To mark the anniversary of Greg Stafford's passing, we encourage Chaosium fans and gamers in general to play a tabletop game from October 10 to October 31 in his memory. To that end we'll be releasing...
View Article"Let's talk a little bit about Your Glorantha Will Vary (YGWV)" by Ian Cooper
A short time ago on Facebook @Ian Cooper wrote something that might be worth preserving & commenting here as well (also for those who are not on FB): Quote Let's talk a little bit about Your...
View ArticleArkati Shamanism?
Arkat is surely associated primarily with sorcery, but are there any shamanistic practices within any of the Arkat cults? Also, which Sartar Magical Union practices are shamanistic? (Trying to come...
View ArticleSocial strata in Orlanthi society
I am carrying this over from the YGWV thread as this is about making our joint Glorantha writings more compatible with the canonical presentation rather than reveling in the grognardy of outdated...
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The Praxian Tradition
Chris Klug over on G+ asked for a list of Praxian gods with their runes. This prompted me to update my work-in-progress structure of the Praxian Tradition that I'm using for the Prax book. Some of the...
View ArticleSartar under the House of Sartar
Among the first things Greg ever wrote about the Kingdom of Sartar was the following: "<Sartar's> magic turned smart men into chieftains, good men into loyal followers, and enemies into pack...
View ArticleA thaumorg manifesto
Just took a look at Donna Haraways Cyborg Manifesto for the first time in a few years, and it struck me how much Gloranthans are ‘thaumaturgic organisms’, in which the normal organic selves are...
View ArticleWhen will we see the next chapter of The Chronicles of Bael?
In case you haven't seen it, The Chronicles of Bael is a first person serial written by I don't know who (awcfox?), about a Lhankor Mhy initiate's studies into the nature of chaos. Very entertaining...
View ArticleWinter in Dragon Pass
I was looking at the cold exposure and homeland temperatures in RQG (pages 161 and 104, respectively) and it struck me that much of Dragon Pass seems somewhat... balmy. Now to be entirely fair, I'm...
View ArticleConanesque?
Does Glorantha have a region similar to the following regions as found in Conan's Hyperborea? Shem, Stygia, Kush, jungles, that sort of thing. I want to go for a sword and sorcery feel.
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