Sartarite Free Army
Composition of the Sartar Free Army A large portion of Sartar’s army consists of mercenaries and outlanders, with only the core drawn from Sartarite tribes and City Rings. Brotherhood of Death...
View ArticleJonstown Compendium No. 9,807: Who owns these treasures?
On p.55 of Sartar: Kingdom of Heroes an information box is displayed containing the entry No. 9,807 of the Jonstown Compendium. This entry lists several treasures, which according to the text are...
View ArticleGlorantha Publications
Glorantha is the mythical world created by Greg Stafford that first made its appearance with White Bear and Red Moon boardgame and later grew to fame as the default setting for the original RuneQuest...
View ArticlePhalanx Warfare
The following is derived from reading Aelianus and Asclepiodotus: even in translation the meanings aren't always apparent, despite the drawings they helpfully provided. As such, even though modified...
View ArticleAndrogeus
Sandy currently has a vote going for The Gods War backers to decide which monster gets funded next: the choice is the monstrous Leviathan or Androgeus, who claims the Male Sky is her mother and the...
View ArticlePraxian Tribes and their clans
I thought it might be fun to have folks post the names that they have given to clans in their games. I would certainly use them in my games. We could give their chieftain's/queen's names too.
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Videos from The Gods War kickstarter
If you're still on the fence to back Sandy's amazing new boardgame Kickstarter THE GODS WAR, maybe these Youtube videos will help you make up your mind... 2-hour complete playthrough by Munchkin...
View ArticleGenert's sons
Was Bubar a son of Genert? Do we have the names of any of the other sons? Did some become chaotic after Earthfall?
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Star Trek is 50 years old today, so is Glorantha
Star Trek is 50 years old today. And Greg Stafford also discovered the mythic universe of Glorantha in 1966 too. But did you know that in the intervening half-century Glorantha has found its way into...
View ArticleGloranthan Fiction from my Home Campaign - Adventures in the Clanking Ruin!
Not sure if this is of interest, but over at D-infinity.net, I have been writing an ongoing story of my player characters' adventures exploring my interpretation of the Clanking Ruin: To Teak the Nose...
View ArticleCollector's checklist for RuneQuest/Hero Wars/HeroQuest/Glorantha
I've been working on updating my collector's checklist for RuneQuest/Hero Wars/HeroQuest/Glorantha. The list has grown to over 1600 entries. Any comments and/or corrections would be appreciated....
View ArticleYggite Game Summary
[Cross-posted from Google+] Here's a brief summary of our seven-session Ygg campaign "Becoming Wolf Pirates", which had its last session a couple of weeks ago. I have more complete logs if anyone is...
View ArticleRokary and Alchemy
I remember reading somewhere that Rokari have a problem with Alchemy and Alchemists, basically regarding them on the same level as Necromancers and Demon summoners. Can anyone expand on this?
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Khan of Khans - new Gloranthan Family Card Game
Demoing our forthcoming family card game, Reiner Knizia's KHAN OF KHANS at Gen Con this weekend - lots of positive reactions, both for the game play and the immensely cute Gloranthan art by Ian...
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Gods War - Cthulhu Wars Mash Up
OK, in the dying hours of The Gods War Kickstarter Sandy has done it - mash-up rules for a Cthulhu Wars - Gods War crossover. Using figures from Cthulhu Wars in The Gods War, and vice-versa!...
View ArticlePrax and the thousand questions about the place.
So, let's carry on my old thread from over on the Glorantha.com forum. The Long Nose Tribe, gone, perhaps hidden. Were they connected to Teshnos in some way? Have they vanished there perhaps? When did...
View ArticleWitchcraft in Glorantha
Over at d-Infinity.net I have written up the beginnings of Witchcraft and witches - a system of magic that is neither sorcery nor cultic in nature. Instead, witches make temporary pacts with eldritch...
View ArticleHrestoli in RQ6/Mythras
Has anyone out there set up rules for Hrestoli advancement in the Nash-Whittaker RQ systems? I put this in the Glorantha section because I thought I'd get more response. Their standard system of order...
View ArticleEvil Emperors: Yelm and Malkion
Reading through Sartar: Kingdom of Heroes, I found some contradictory facts about the Evil Emperor Yelm: * How did Yelm defeat Orlanth during the 1st contest, the Contest of Music? - By performing a...
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