#Runequest Glorantha

[skunts-own-truth]

For my Glorantha fans out there. My wife has become obessed with Yelm and made this beauty.

[kleioscanvas]

The seven-tiered Temple to the Seven Mothers in Glamour, a feat of architectural madness that no one asked for, no one benefited from, and cost a fortune to build.

[oldschoolfrp]

A demon of Glorantha (Franck Drevon, from an article on demons for Runequest, Dragon Radieux 17, September 1988)

[commander-ledi]

map of my old runequest character's scars & tattoos. most of the scars are just randomly drawn & loosely based on old map of his scars. only deliberately drawn scars with story are the leg, neck scar, and the scars from removal of his old ears. he kept his old ears and made them into earrings (nobody except trolls seem to find it funny 😔)

he has one (1) hit point in That Leg. if hes unarmored, punching his leg off is in fact a realistic scenario.

[forkwisse]

The grand arc of my current phase of getting really into Glorantha has been me going from "boo Orlanth he causes so many problems" to "yayyy Orlanth he causes so many problems" and I think that's wonderful.

[vikugnavikugna]

Set of DE-inspired skills for one of the players from our Runequest game [he's kind of insane, illuminated or otherwise reaching draconic consciousness; we have no clue]

[haveyouplayedthisttrpg]

Have you played RUNEQUEST ?

By Steve Perrin, Ray Turney, Steve Henderson, and Warren James

The grand daddy of d% based RPGs, RuneQuest is a fantasy role-playing set in Greg Stafford's original fantasy setting of Glorantha and the game that would serve as the basis for Chaosium's Basic Roleplaying system that powers games such as Call of Cthulhu and King Arthur Pendragon.

Glorantha is a bronze age setting that operates on mythic logic: the world is still young, since time only began relatively recently as a result of a cataclysmic theomachy, and many of the founding myths that shape the world are not just myths but the literal truth. The Hero Wars time period of at least the first and second editions of the game was centered largely on the region of Dragon Pass, which also appeared in the cool as hell video game King of Dragon Pass.

As a game RuneQuest is clearly a reaction to early Dungeons & Dragons in many ways: characters advance organically by training or learning skills through use, magic isn't arbitrarily restricted by "class," and combat is notably less abstract and more blow-by-blow than in D&D. There is also an attempt to integrate the setting very strongly with the mechanics, aptly demonstrated by the various organizations and cults characters can join to unlock new avenues of advancement.

[evilmidnightlurker]

The problem with modern RuneQuest books

[scribblingsorsomething]

Runequest duck doodles.

[starslop]

my runequest character Jenassa the Pilgrim

[unseenphil]

Recently unlocked the worst Glorantha fact, which is that Orlanthi men often pair the second syllable of a god's name with a unique prefix for male names. So you have guys whose names end in -makt, lanth, -tar, etc, because those are god names.

This seems pretty tame, and not terrible until you combine this with the fact that a common first syllable in the Orlanthi naming system is "Bro"

[skunts-own-truth]

After about a year-and-a-half, the big caravan campaign my Runequest party has been going through has finally come to its end point. At the end of last session, the party made it to the site of their new lands with a week to spare before Sacred Time. The caravan has begun breaking down and settling, while the party and their Ernalda priestess get ready to preform a Heroquest to cement the Moon-Eater Tribe’s land claim to the very gods themselves.

This is going to be the first time the party has preformed a Heroquest. We’re going to play it loose, using only character passions and rune scores as their core stats during the Heroquest. There won’t be any damage dice, hell, if they get into fights I may not even do things as a combat- instead using abstract questions and answers to gain solutions to the mythic encounters they may face.

This shouldn’t be the most dangerous of Heroquests, but it’s huge reality shifting magic. Shit can go wrong, and there will be wrong answers. Can’t wait to see how they handle it!

Luckily, I have this lovely book here to help with all kinds of suggestions and ideas. Heroquesting is a staple of Runequest, and I can’t believe it took our campaign a whole dang year-and-a-half to get to one, but! We made it, and woe to the Lunars of Tarsh, for the Moon-Eaters and their Troll friends have settled on their boarder. They are known in Furthest, but soon, even the city Glamour shall know the name “Moon-Eater.”

[kleioscanvas]

Nysalor, God of Truth and Lies, chained in the Underworld

[oldschoolfrp]

Ral Partha miniatures, illustrated by Bill Neff as a decorative border below a page in RP's War Bulletin newsletter supporting the Chaos Wars game, Spring 1990 (Edit: This originally appeared in Ral Partha's 1985 catalog as the contents of pack 10-401 Rune Questers, characters for the Runequest RPG)

[petterwass]

Runequest really said that Trans women are women and can join exclusively female priesthoods as long as they are bred first

(Priestesses of Ernalda must have born a healthy child to assume office)

So you know what to do...

[swedebeast]

AI history page on facebook used art from Runequest's GLorantha setting lol