#Runequest Glorantha

[skunts-own-truth]

Runequest went great! The party was able to follow some hints I dropped, and discovered a threat in the spirit world that would bring their caravan adventure to a halt if they hadn’t caught it as quickly as they did. There was a lot of NPC maintenance too, with the party going out of their way to make sure the tribe was doing well, and keeping everyone in good cheer on the road to their new land. Dorothy’s apprentice shaman of Daka Fal, Leika the Needle, did have to do some damage control for her wild sister Umatha Stormwife. She’s a bit reckless, and a proud and loud Vinga cultists, and has pissed off the tribe’s Redsmith one too many times. Leika had to toss the guy some lunars and apologize, ensuring there would be no bad blood between their families. Very important since Leika and the Redsmith are both members of the ring.

The session ended after confronting a trouble making hunter, who had threatened to gut the caravan’s cook (an Orlanthi duck who is very proud of his trade.) They learned he grew up in Furthest, and has some fierce city-lunar feelings towards ducks. Though they didn’t really get much out of the conversation, they did invite this hunter on an adventure into the woods to deal with a forest spirit. Their plan is to separate him from camp, and directly call him out about threatening the duck.

[kleioscanvas]

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

[oldschoolfrp]

That old time religion -- Followers of Wakboth (the Devil, the Doom of the World) seek a return to the Great Darkness when Chaos reigned across Glorantha (Guillaume Sorel, Runequest supplement Les Dieux de Glorantha, Oriflam for Avalon Hill & Chaosium, 1987)

[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.

[scribblingsorsomething]

Runequest duck doodles.

[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...

[evilmidnightlurker]

The problem with modern RuneQuest books

[vikugnavikugna]

Attack at Aspiring-Awesomeness' Lunar character

[commander-ledi]

some aldryami guy on night walk

[aaronsrpgs]

Finally got my 2024 planner.

[starslop]

my runequest character Jenassa the Pilgrim

[skunts-own-truth]

You know me, I’m a Warhammer, Dune, Star Trek, Jim Starlin, One Piece, Resident Evil, Final Fantasy, & horror nerd. Ain’t so bad, right? Well, there’s a part of me that climes out from the depths of my squishy soul and comes out screaming “ABANDON ALL OTHERS, BECOME ONLY A RUNEQUEST GLORANTHA FAN!”

It hasn’t happened yet, but the call grows stronger and stronger with each passing year. One day I believe I will have to cave, and I will become unapproachable.

[kleioscanvas]

Beware the Reaching Moon

[oldschoolfrp]

Runequest: Creatures of Glorantha, set of 25mm miniatures sculpted by Bob Charrette for Ral Partha, with box art featuring the dark troll, warrior dragonewt, walkatpus, and dragonsnail (I see no signature; CB Gorby and Tony Orzech contributed some of the art for other sets in this series)

[vintagerpg]

This week on the Vintage RPG Podcast, Stu's crowing about one of his Christmas gifts, The Meints Guide to Glorantha, by Chaosium president Rick Meints. The book amounts to the definitive guide to all publications to include material on Glorantha in existence (well, all the ones Rick knows about, which is certainly most of them, if not all of them). Entries consist of product photos as well as notes on production and design. He even has entries for Glorantha books that don't exist. How's that for exhaustive? There should be a book like this for every RPG line. 

[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"