Question about The Fainting Spirit
I'm about to run the convention scenario The Fainting Spirit but there is one thing I need help understanding. The question is a heavy spoiler, so if you think you might want to play it, now is the...
View ArticleGloranthan Campaign Ideas/Pitches
What are some ideas for interesting campaigns that y'all have had, especially ones that you have or would like to run? Something different from the standards like "you're adventurers in the Big Rubble...
View ArticleAny theories on Vorthan?
I'd like to start a discussion on a fairly obscure topic. The god Vorthan is mentioned a few times in the Jonatela section in the GtG. On pg. 228 under "Vorthan's Hill" he is described as "an...
View ArticleWhat's at Birne's Squeeze?
Has anyone defined what is at Birne's Squeeze? East of Apple Lane on the way to Redbird.
View ArticleFlintnail Dwarves
I've been assuming that the Flintnail cult in Pavis consists of apostate dwarves, as they appear to have abandoned the Mostali way (ironically since Flintnail himself was a Mostali, not a dwarf). Am I...
View ArticleThe Gloranthan Procession
I want to talk about something Greg Stafford wrote more than twenty years ago, which I think I’m beginning to understand. His foreword to my friend Chris Gidlow’s book Tarsh War began: “I am pleased...
View ArticleRuneQuest: Role-Playing in Glorantha first impressions
Hello my friends, I am officially the proud owner of the RuneQuest: Role-Playing in Glorantha Slipcase Set! Woohoo!!! What follows is a brief summary of what I like so far from just a quick flip...
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Out now in Print and PDF: A Rough Guide to Glamour
Now available from the Chaosium’s Jonstown Compendium webstore: the revised and expanded Rough Guide to Glamour....
View ArticleGreat Sacred Mountains of Orlanth
Page 296 of the Guide to Glorantha mentions the Great Sacred Mountains of Orlanth. Quote The Storm God Orlanth is manifest atop his Great Sacred Mountains, and he is most easily and directly spoken...
View ArticleLunar Tarshite hospitality?
Do Lunars, especially those from Tarshite lands, have a code of hospitality? If so, is it anything like Orlanthi hospitality? The reason I'm asking: I've been drawing up an adventure that involves a...
View ArticleNevermet's Manirian Scratchpad
This is a thread for me to work through some of my ideas about Maniria in public so people can tell me when I'm going about things horribly. Why Maniria? I like Maniria for several reasons. First...
View ArticleThe Alone Confederation
Hey there Gloranthophiles, I'm working on a clan-based campaign in the style of the excellent Red Cow books, and the focus is the Bachad tribe starting around 1611 (I hope to publish it on the...
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Prince Terasarin
Quote defending Terasarin against the duplicity that took his life. What duplicity was that? Didn't he fall off a cliff trying to evade a dinosaur? That's what the Storm Voice told me. Quote is from...
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Why does the Red Emperor look like Elvis?
I shared this over on Facebook, but I know some of you don't use that platform, and people do keep asking. Now that A Rough Guide to Glamour is out in print, I think the tale can be told. A flash of...
View ArticlePicture of a Waertagi
I am looking for a picture of a Waertagi. So far I could only find one in the Anaxial's Roster. I know the book is not canon anymore, but is the picture still considered accurate? If no picture is...
View ArticleIs Ernaldori canonically a slave-owning clan?
There are some slaves in Clearwine Fort, and the rest of the Colymar has some slaves, but is Ernaldori a slave-owning clan?
View ArticleWho owns the buildings in Sartar?
My guess is that the buildings in the countryside are built communally and owned by the clans, but who owns and builds the buildings in cities and towns?
View ArticleWomen in Glorantha
(phone posting draft) Initiation of Women, of the Feminine and of Glorantha and storytelling there in. So i see much of the Gloranthan materials do the whole "male role as default " which is a...
View ArticleGods of stone
I realized that in the Glorantha I know, there is no god of stone (Earth, yes stone no) : Miner, mountains, hard rock, quarrymen,.... And I can easily imagine that when you build a big city,...
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