#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]

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)

[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"

[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...

[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]

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)

[swedebeast]

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

[vikugnavikugna]

Attack at Aspiring-Awesomeness' Lunar character