Orlanthi Property
Here's a little snippet from a forthcoming players-oriented book I am working on (cross-posted by me from Facebook): PROPERTY The Orlanthi divide ownership into two types of property, called earth and...
View ArticleBronze age weapons damage
Hi, I have found a recently published article on bronze age swordsmanship and the resulting damage to weapon. The paper uses an experimental approach which compares the damage to to replica weapons in...
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Muskox People Dev Thread
I thought I'd might as well create a proper thread for this instead of making a bunch of different question threads. Summary: I'm trying to do some minor worldbuilding for a Storm-worshipping...
View ArticleRed Moon Exports
The Red Moon is a divine realm, a place with a geography and natural features and a civilization of sorts, even though it is of course mythic and weird and all that stuff. My question is quite simply:...
View ArticleGlamour and the Crater
Now our Rough Guide to Glamour has gone Electrum, I thought it might be nice to share the first notes I sent Glorantha’s master cartographer Colin Driver while he was working on the map that ended up...
View ArticleA Question About Heortling Steads
Hi all. I'm in the process of getting ready to run a Glorantha game using RQ Classic rules (so many fond memories), and after browsing through the old HeroQuest books I've decided I'm mostly going to...
View ArticleGanestoro's Runes?
Pretty much what it says on the tin: what runes are associated with Estoro / Ganestoro / Ganesatarus? Even more specifically, are there any canonical statements about this? I could imagine cases to...
View ArticleDoes Bijiif have the Fire Rune?
Does Bijiif, the portion of Yelm smeared with ash that sat and waited in the underworld, have an association with the fire rune?
View ArticlePavis Chronology
I've been doing a bit of "deep background" reading for my Praxian campaign (which is about to head into the Big Rubble to take care of Oll and the gorp plague), so I'm reading Pavis/Big Rubble (the...
View ArticleGlorantha-themed masks on Redbubble
Redbubble is now offering Masks, so we've made some that include the Chalana Arroy runes. (Before anyone asks, we haven't made a Malia Mask).
View ArticleUrcheth
I'd read earlier on this forum that "Urcheth is a new Chaos god that appears early in the Hero Wars. Its many organs are new chaos outbursts and manifestations across Genertela." I know that there is...
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FAMOUS DUCKS OF THE HERO WARS!
Wotcher, warblers! I've been posting these to the Glorantha Google+ page so far, but while that format is brilliant for quickly displaying visual things like these, it isn't that great for keeping...
View ArticleBuilding a Clan from scratch
So as I learn about Glorantha from the tribe, I began to do an exercise and began building a clan. This folder contains the ramblings of my feverish mind, I present the piecemeal forming of The...
View ArticleThe History of the Troll Wars during the Inhuman Occupation
I had a number of double-takes when reading the backstory and the research suggestions for The Smoking Ruins, so I went and had a look at the sources that I remembered. Beware of background spoilers!...
View ArticleGod on the Road
I was brainstorming some adventure ideas for my campaign recently, and one that popped up was to use some version of the "God on the Road" trope. I don't know if it has an "official" name, but I'm...
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Kingdom of Beasts (Dawn Age Fronela)
So while refreshing my sense of Dawn Age aldryami politics I was struck by this map from the Fortunate Succession: Sadly other archaic Pelorian maps in my possession end with the Sweet Sea so this is...
View ArticleHomebrew Glorantha
HOMEBREW GLORANTHA !!! Over the years, many of us homebrewed our own settings from the ground up, and many of us also homebrewed published settings by filling in the gaps. Glorantha is no different,...
View ArticleIs there an official map of Furthest?
I'm looking at running a set of adventures based in the Tarsh. I'll use Furthest as the primary "go-to" city of the game. Is there an 'official' map or description of the place? If not, does anyone...
View ArticleSpirits in Spirit World
What are the most common spirits to face, when traveling in Spirit World? Is it most likely to meet animal spirits, passion spirits, spell spirits or what?
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Out now in PDF: A Rough Guide to Glamour
Now available from the Chaosium’s Jonstown Compendium webstore: the revised and expanded Rough Guide to Glamour....
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