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Glorantha is a Fantasy world setting and RuneQuest is a Fantasy Game.
All articles on this web site are game rules or background to the Fantasy setting and are not intended to be taken in any other way.
In particular, I have no knowledge of, interest in or desire to discuss actual use of magic, spells or suchlike.

Glorantha is the Trademark of Issaries, Inc and is used with their permission
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Table of Contents

News
Recent Changes/What's New
Surveys
Gloranthan Hates
Gloranthan Loves
Ask Me About
Miscellaneous
Links
Feedback
A Cry for Help
Translations
Contributions from other Authors
Hero Wars
HQLite
Mongoose RuneQuest
Second Age Glorantha
Campaign
Vampires
Fool's Paradise
Info
Maps
The Seas
Indlas Somer
Yelmalio
Three Feathered Rivals
Dragon Pass/NG
Glorantha
Bestiary
HeroQuesting
HeroQuests
Water Quests
Earth Quests
Fire/Sky Quests
Pavis/Prax Quests
Miscellaneous Quests
Magic Roads
Darkness Quests
Orlanthi HeroQuests
Magic Weapon Quests
Slaying of Worcha
LightBringers' Quest
Miscellaneous Quests
The Hill of Gold
Tales of Eurmal
Tales of Pent
Tales of Prax
Tales of Dara Happa
Tales of Balazar
Other Tales
House Rules
High Level Gaming
Tools
Heroes/Cults
Gloranthan Reviews
Spirit World
Ducks
Dorastor
Silly Stuff
People of Glorantha
Pent
Prax
Balazar
Magic Items
PC/NPC Statistics
Plants
Scenarios
Conventions
Extras
Alternate Earth
Age of Arthur
Pantheons
Campaigns
Bestiary
Miscellanea
Other Mongoose
Lankhmar
Elric
Hawkmoon
Slaine

News

Graham Robinson

In September 2007, Graham Robinson severed his connection with the Dragon Pass and Nomad Gods games. Graham hosted the glorantha-board mailing list for many years as a free service, but has recently decided to retire from Glorantha and rehome greyhounds. I am sure he will get more satisfaction from his new activity and wish him well. Graham hosted the Gloranthan Digest for many years and has always been a polite, well-spoken and well-informed member of the Gloranthan community and he will be missed. Hopefully, he will come to the occasional convention and not be completely lost to us. Thanks, Graham, for all the work you have done over the years.

D100

Chaosium has announced that the D100 game will come out in November 2007, so not the typical "Next Year" after all. This is a massive beast, based on RQ3 with a lot of Cthulhu and Stormbringer thrown in. The playtest looked good and it reads very much like RQ3, if you ignore the SAN and EDU rubbish. They even have a new supplement coming out, which covers Ancient Rome, so that has to be worth looking out for.

System Wars

With RQM and D100 coming out, will this herald the start of the System Wars? We already have battle lines drawn on various mailing lists/discussion forums. On the left are the RQ die-hards who say that Mongoose/Issaries are the works of the devil and nothing can ever be as good as Chaosium's versions of RQ and "how could they produce a new version of RQ without crediting authors who worked on the originals 30 years ago?". On the right are the new Mongoosers who say that RQM, or MRQ as they quaintly like to call it forgetting about RQ2 and RQ3, is new and exciting and we should all forget about earlier versions of RQ as they are dead and gone. Then there are devotees of HeroQuest who sit on their cloud and airily sniff at lesser old-fashioned systems such as RuneQuest and declare that they have no interest in RQ any more. Stuck in the middle are people like me. I want HeroQuest, D100 and RuneQuest to all succeed. Ideally, I would like to see scenarios and supplements that are compatible with all three systems. They all have their strengths and weaknesses. HeroQuest is a very flexible system b ut gets bogged down in the rules and doesn't have many new supplements out. RuneQuest is a new system that, to put it mildly, is very full of holes. The magic system doesn't work right, the books are full of errors and the production quality hasn't been up to scratch. However, it is modular, relatively cheap and they have produced an awful lot of supplements and have promised more. They also have the Eternal Champion, Lhankmar and Slaine rights and have an Open gaming Licence (OGL) that allows third party publishers to produce RQ compatible supplements, many of which are very good. D100 has been extensively playtested and is based on a proven system. It is very complete and covers all kinds of gaming settings. However, can it compete with RuneQuest? Does Chaosium have the muscle to push the game properly? Will they let third party publishers produce supplements as Mongoose have? The ideal solution would be for a company to get a licence from both Mongoose and Chaosium and produce D100/RQ compatible supplements, but I don't lnow how difficult this would be. I can only live in hope.

Until then, let the System Wars begin!

Mythic Russia Companions

Firebird Productions have announced that there will be some PDF Companions to Mark's Mythic Russia Game. This is excellent news, as the Mythic Russia book is too good to just be a one of a kind book. The first one will be based on the Golden Horde and I have contributed several things to it. The others will be Baltic and Russian in nature. Maybe Paolo will be able to use some of them in his Stupor Mundi series and we can get some well-needed crossover between Mythic Russia HeroQuest and Stupor Mundi RuneQuest.




Recent Changes/What's New


Link

Date

Change

Description

The Book of Balazar March 2008 Added More from the Book of Balazar, with comments by Phippicus the Sage
Mongoose RuneQuest Products November 2007 Updated Added Dragonewts and Spellbook
The Bashkers September 2007 New [Hawkmoon] Between Muscovia and Asia Communista lay The Bashkers
A New RQ Link Page September 2007 Amended Added a few new links
Image Map of New Pavis July 2007 New A map, image map and description of places in New Pavis
Central Genertela (Large) June 2007 New A Large TIFF of Central Genertela (3Mb)
Central Genertela (Small) June 2007 New A Small JPEG of Central Genertela (2Mb)
Making Maps Update - The Map June 2007 New The latest in my attempt to draw a map of Central Genertela
Tentacles 2007 Overview May 2007 New Overview of Tentacles 2007
Tentacles 2007 Trollball May 2007 New TrollBall World Cup at Tentacles 2007
Freeform May 2007 New Between the Dragon and the Deep Blue Sea at Tentacles 2007
Tentacles 2007 Games May 2007 New The Tabletop Games I Played in at Tentacles 2007
RQ Roller - By Steve Lieb December 2006 New A RQ Character Generator in Excel by Steve Lieb
Enchantments October 2006 Modified Added Spirit Defender and Spirit Weapon Enchantments
Mongoose RQ Downloads October 2006 New The complete list of RuneQuest Downloads on the Mongoose Website
Mongoose RQ Products October 2006 New The complete list of RuneQuest Products on the Mongoose Website
Mongoose RQ Forums October 2006 New RuneQuest Forums on the Mongoose Website (Warning - expect moaning and bitching!)
Why HeroQuest Doesn't Work October 2006 New HeroQuest Problems and how to fix them
Sample Character Sheet October 2006 New Sample HeroQuest Lite Character Sheet
Sample HeroQuest Sheet - Saltan Stormrunner October 2006 New Saltan Stormrunner - a Sample Hero from HeroQuest
Converted HQLite Sheet - Saltan Stormrunner October 2006 New Saltan Stormrunner - Converted to HQLite
All Files Zipped Up October 2006 Updated All the HTML Files on this site in one archive
Mongoose RuneQuest Products October 2006 New Review of Mongoose RuneQuest Products
Unfinished Works October 2006 New Review of the Unfinished Works
Enchantments October 2006 New Enchantments and Exceptional Items
Overview August 2006 New Overview of Mongoose's RuneQuest
Indlas Somer Overview August 2006 New Overview of the Indlas Somer Cult
Second Age Glorantha August 2006 New The new Gloranthan Setting - EWF vs Godleaners
Mongoose RuneQuest August 2006 New Mongoose's new RuneQuest Rules
Conventions August 2006 New Various Convention Writeups and Information
Continuum 2006 Overview August 2006 New Overview of Continuum 2006
Rising Tsar Freeform August 2006 New Writeup of the Rising Tsar Freeform and my part in it
Griffin Mountain Freeform August 2006 New Writeup of the Griffin Mountain Freeform and my part in it
DP/NG Crib Sheet May 2006 New A Crib Sheet for Dragon Pass/Nomad Gods with extended CF/Missiles and handy rules
About Me! May 2006 New Some background about little old me
Indlas Somer Songbook May 2006 New Songbook for the Indlas Somer Cult

Click here to download all files in Zip format
I have abandoned the frames version as it was too much trouble maintaining two structures. If you want the frames version then click here.

Surveys

I have been playing with a new survey facility, as you do, and have started to create various Surveys.
Obviously, I would like to hear your feedback on various things from my website or on RuneQuest/Glorantha in general.
What do you want to see on my RuneQuest/Glorantha Website?

A Cry for Help

I am running out of ideas for articles and things to include on the website. When I have finished off the HeroQuests, Scenarios and other articles that I have pencilled in then I have nothing more to add to the site.
If anyone has any ideas of what kinds of things I should include, or if anyone wants any requests or wants to co-author anything with me then please let me know otherwise I will have to stop adding things to the site.

Translations

Matti Järvinen has very kindly translated some articles into Finnish for me and is hosting them on his web site. He has been a very busy boy and has many translations there. Many thanks, Matti. I have put a Finnish Flag  beside the articles that have been translated into Finnish with a link to the articles on Matti's Site where there are a number of articles and tools. He has changed his site, so I may have to change the link.
Jerome Blondel has also very kindly translated some of my articles into French and is hosting them on his web site. Thanks Jerome. I have put a French Flag  beside the articles that have been translated into French with a link to the articles on Jerome's Site where there is a write up for Dormal amongst other things.
By the way, if anyone else would like to translate any of these articles then please go ahead. Just send me an email letting me know your name, the article translated, the web address of the translated article, the language of the translation and the address of the home page. Could you also put in a link to the English version of the article as part of the translated page? I'll put in a note of thanks here together with a link to the translated pages.

Contributions from other Authors

It can be very difficult to keep producing articles for the website, especially when other things intrude. I would very much like to be able to include contributions from other people here. The first of these contributions is by Mark Lawson and is a nifty magic item. The second is from Ian Martin and is a collection of magic items from Pavis.
If anyone wants to send me articles to include here, please Email Me and I will try to put the article onto the site as soon as I can.
A New RQ Link Page
Visit the Gloranthan Web Ring
Web Ferret Search Results
Spot On Tour - GeoCities Sites
Who links to me?

Gloranthan Hates

Gloranthan Loves

Ask Me About ...

Overview
Blank Lands
The Gloranthan Digest
The Fan Material Policy
New Glorantha
Secret Knowledge
Using Rules in Histories
Overview
The Monomyth
The Gloranthan Digest
New Glorantha
Overview

Miscellaneous

Links

Feedback

Read Me First
Don't Tell Gorakiki
Should I Include PC Stats
A New RQ Link Page
Visit the Gloranthan Web Ring
Web Ferret Search Results
Spot On Tour - GeoCities Sites
Who links to me?
Send Me Feedback

Mongoose RuneQuest

Comments

Rules Suggestions

RQM Links

Overview
Reviews of Mongoose RuneQuest Products
Enchantments
Mongoose RQ Downloads
Mongoose RQ Products
Mongoose RQ Forums

Second Age Glorantha

Jrusteli (Godlearners)

Empire of the Wyrms Friends (EWF)

Other Areas

Godlearners
EWF
Other Areas
Second Age Pavis

Hero Wars

HQLite

Overview
Converting HeroWars Cults
Converted HeroWars Cults
New Skills/Spells
Converting HeroWars Creatures
Army Combat
Review of Web Material
Conversion of my cults
Why HeroQuest Doesn't Work
Sample Character Sheet
Sample HeroQuest Sheet - Saltan Stormrunner
Converted HQLite Sheet - Saltan Stormrunner

Campaign

Vampires

Indlas Somer

Overview
Personalities
NPCs
The Players
Our New Pavix/Prax Campaign
The Cult of Vivamort
Vampires
Miscellaneous Information
Famous Vampires
Indlas Somer Overview
The Lords of the Eternal Surf
The Indlas Somer Songbook

Fool's Paradise

Info

Maps

Bodily Functions
Clever Tricksters
The Death of RuneQuest
Issaries Inc.
Making Maps
Making Maps Update
Making Maps Update - The Map

The Seas

Yelmalio

Three Feathered Rivals

The Closing of the Oceans
Dormal and the Albatross
Dormal and the Red Woman
Small Galley
The Sea Hawk
The Evolution of Yelmalio
History of Yelmalio's Cult
Yelmalio -The Forest Sun
Yelmalio - The Bird Rider
The Mountain Sun
Yelmalio - The Rider
Overview
Sacred Societies
Mythos
Cults
Summoning the Rivals

Dragon Pass/NG

Pent

Glorantha

Overview
Including Balazar
Dragon Pass/Nomad Gods Link Page
DP/NG Crib Sheet
The Liberation of Prax 
Dragon Pass Spirits
Pentian Demons
Four Horsemen
Black Cliffs
Gopher Cult
The Gord'Un
The World of Glorantha 
Gods of Glorantha 
The Monomyth 
Pantheons of Glorantha

House Rules

High Level Gaming

Tools

House Rules
Alchemy
Protection from the Elements
Movement and Fatigue
Temples
Character Relationships
Overview
The GM
The Game
High Level Tactics
High Level Statistics
Holy Day Calendar
Armour ENC (Humanoid)
Armour ENC (Horses)
Web Ferret Search Results
RQ Roller - By Steve Lieb

Heroes/Cults

Cult of Inora
The Horse Eater
Wallan The Walker
Orlanth Aquarius
Baram Three Shields
Oak Man
Moustache Man
White Face
Cult of Garana-Tar
Grandmother Sky 

Bestiary

Shadowmages 
Valkyrie
Swan Maidens
Spirit Warriors 
The Chaos Pack
The Baba Yaga
  Spirits that Possess People
Were Creatures

Gloranthan Reviews

General Overview
RuneQuest 2 Products
RuneQuest 3 Products
Unfinished Works
Non-RuneQuest Products
Gloranthan Classics
Hero Wars Reviews
Mongoose RuneQuest Products
Review Summary

HeroQuesting

Overview
Rules Summary
Quests
Other HeroQuest Rules
Gaining Rune Magic
Using Magic on HeroQuests
Groovy HeroPaths
The Sunset Leap Comments
Stations as HeroQuests
Magical Weapons Quests
HeroQuesting Rules for Hero Wars

HeroQuests

Water Quests

Earth Quests

Fire/Sky Quests

Cleansed One Quest
Rocking the Cradle
Birth of Babeester Gor The Cleansing Fire
The Lava Spear
The Invisible Spear
The Invisible Arrow
The Meteor Bow

Pavis/Prax Quests

Miscellaneous Quests

Magic Roads

The Unicorn Quest
Flintnail Quest
Four Nests Quest
The Holy Fire
The Emperor's Pentian Quest
Eurmal's Story of Death
Marriage Quests
The Forest King's Daughter
Humakt Gains Death
Styx Swords Quest
WinterCome 
Magic Roads Overview
The Rainbow Bridge
Ronance Quests
The Devil's Claws
Riding the Red Worm
The Dark Waters

Darkness Quests

Fire Maul Quest
The Slaying of Ernalda
Styx Shore
The Web Quest
Derak's Darkness Quest
The Chaining of Lodril

Orlanthi HeroQuests

Magic Weapon Quests

Slaying of Worcha

LightBringers' Quest

Scarf of Mist Quest
Sandals of Darkness Quest
Lightning Spear Quest
Shield of Arran Quest
The Gaining of Woad
Overview
The Slaying of Worcha
The Drowning of Mavorela
The Tunnel of Wind
Trembling Shore
Overview
LightBringers' Quest

Miscellaneous Quests

Overview
Orlanth and the Blue Dragon
Orlanth's Ram
The Four Contests
The Wooing of Ernalda
The Contest of Weapons
The Baths of Nelat
Raising Stormwalk Mountains
The Story of Death

The Hill of Gold

Hill of Gold (Overview)
Hill of Gold (Orlanth)
Hill of Gold (Zorak Zoran)
Hill of Gold (Yelmalio)
Hill of Gold (Elven Yelmalio)
Hill of Gold (Hellwood Elven Yelmalio)
Hill of Gold (Inora)
Hill of Gold (Elmal)

Spirit World

The Spirit Plane
Shamans
Fetish Items
New Rules
Vision Quests
Shamanic Traditions
Spirit Plane Encounters
Balazar Shamans 
Sartarite Shamans

Ducks

Overview
Delecti, Our Saviour
The Upland Marsh
The Real Upland Marsh
Why Ducks Still Live In the Marsh
How I Kill Undead
Quack! Glub, Glub, Glub
Duck Towers
Duck Psychology
Why ducks don't lay eggs

Tales of Eurmal

Tales of Pent

Tales of Prax

Eurmal's Escape
Eurmal and the Giants
Eurmal and the Rock Stew
Uleria's Itch
Uleria's New Toy
Eurmal and the Hot Water Test
Starlight People
Why the Sun is so High Up
The Wolf Head Tribe
Shooting Down the Moon
The Steppe Maiden
How the Sun Returned
Shantar and the Horse Maiden
Kantar and the White Horses
Dancing Stallion River
Pentian Hospitality
The Ostrich and Her Chicks
Gaf's Tale
Griselda and the Big Troll

Tales of Dara Happa

Tales of Balazar

Other Tales

The Eagle and The Sparrow
The Little Black Dog
The Forest King's Daughter
How the Mosquito Lost Its Tongue
Yelmalio in Balazar
How Raven made the People
Little Bear's Son
Balazar and the Little Shaggy Pony
The Bear's Son
Yinkin and the Cock's Comb
The Sycamore Shaman
Blue Dawn
The Helerings

Dorastor

Overview
The Son of Thed
Micro Broos
SlimeStone
Ragnaglar's Breath
Dragonewt of Storm
Ralzakark
Twelve Heads Are Better Than One
The Golden Eagle
Thunder Mountain
Dorasta
Feather (Lost Storm)
The God Contest
Teacher
The Man of Light
It Had Two Heads
The Great Queen
The Seven Hills
The Barrier
The Fog Bank
HellWood
Castle Kartolin
PoisonThorn Woods
The Tower of Lead
Arkat's Last Tower
The Sultan of Vanch
The Doomed Man
The Broo Legion
Encounter Tables
Neverdead
Stonemen
The Wind Riders
Map of Dorastor
Blood Grove
Cacodemon Temples in Dorastor
Dorastor's Spirit Plane
Arkat's Black Pool
Spider Men 
Fort Wrath 
 

Enough of Dorastor


Silly Stuff

Favourite Fumbles
Stupid things people do
Impressive Deeds
The worst RuneQuest experiences
Favourite Chaos Features
Having Fun
"But You Don't Have Chaos Features"
Yelmalion Jokes
Favourite Pastimes
Duck Golf
Elite Trap-Finding Trollkin

People of Glorantha

Overview
Humans
Trolls
Plant People
Mostali 
Beast Folk
Dragonkind 
Chaos Folk 
Giants

Prax

The Golden Egg
Stampede!
Arroin's Joy
Ronance
Praxian Shamans
Sacred Societies
Sword Brothers
Ahmal, the Seducer who Lies
The Golden Girl
Parts of the Statue
Pavic Story Arc
Image Map of New Pavis
Places of Prax

Balazar

Tornado Spirit
Brother Bee
Social Status in Balazar
Strelite - God of the Bachelor Hunt
Cults of Balazar
Yinkin in Votanki Mythos
Places of Balazar
The Book of Balazar
Land For Service (A. Taylor)
Slavery in Balazar (A. Taylor)
Justice in Balazar (A. Taylor)
The Citadel Kings of Balazar (A. Taylor)
The Sevenwall Fleet of Foot (A. Taylor)
The Polaris Guard (A. Taylor)
Zig Zag's Bar and Grill (A. Taylor)
Civilising the Natives (A. Taylor)

Magic Items

Spirit Weapons
God Bundles
Ancestor Bundles
Duck Masks
Wakboth's Teeth
Thunder Arrows
Moon Swords
Miscellaneous Items
More Items
Styx Swords by Mark Lawson
Pavic Magic Items by Ian Martin

PC/NPC Statistics

Halim - The False Wind
Ralzakark Death Bringer
Slamark, Ralzakark's Envoy
Seven Hills Fiend
The Dragonewt of Storm
Tin Feather (Lost Storm)
The Crystal Skull
The Doomed Man
Son of Thed
Granny Keeneye
Cacodemon
The Sun Hawk
Thunder Bird
Raven
Condor
Nelat's Guardian
Soltak Stormspear

Plants

Overview
The Fire Pods
Arroin's Joy
The Firewood Tree
The EasyClimb Tree
The FireBurst Tree
Suncup and Sun Trumpet
The Sunfire Plant
Dorastoran Death Weed

Scenarios

Overview
The Great Maw
Behind the Golden Door
Beneath Thunder Mountain
Dorastoran Village
Two Queens
Rescuing the Golden Eagle
Seven Hills Cacodemon Temple
Plateau Wrath Thanatar Complex
Chaos Twins
Votanki Hunter Challenge
Challenging Uzarl
Grazelander Contest
Praxian Contest

Conventions

Continuum 2006

Tentacles 2007

Older Conventions

Overview
Rising Tsar
Griffin Mountain
Overview
Trollball
Freeform
Games

Extras

Dragonewts
Red Goddess
The Golden Book
The Super Campaign
Thoughts on Elves
Hero Wars Timeline
The Binding of Oakfed
Undead
Kralorelan Magic
Entekos - The Upper Air
Lunar Malkionism
The Garn Clan
Steam Baths of the Sun Folk
Wives, Concubines and Harlots
Dung Boy
Smeta, the goddess of Sour Milk
Places of Sartar

Other Mongoose Settings

Lankhmar

Elric

Hawkmoon

The Bashkers

Slaine

Alternate Earth

This section is devoted to Alternate Earth RuneQuest.

I have separated this out from the Gloranthan material so that purists will not be contaminated by the Alternate Earth articles. However, I like the Alternate Earth setting and will try to develop more around it.

At first, these will be purely cults for the main Pantheons, but maybe things will progress, as long as I don't get bored.

If I suddenly drop Alternate Earth back into the main table, you will know that I have grown tired of it. There is a Yahoo Group for the Alternate Earth setting and a website at www.geocities.com/alternateearthrq.

Age of Arthur

The Age of Arthur
Druids
Fairy Folk
Christianity
Celts
Saxons
The Little Folk
Kingdoms
Locations
The Holy Grail
Merlin
Sources

Pantheons

Alternate Earth Pantheons Overview
The Germanic Pantheon
The Irish Pantheon
The Welsh Pantheon
The Scottish Pantheon
The British Pantheon
The British Christian Pantheon
The Celtic Pantheon
Skills and Magic
Russian/Slavic 
Greek 
Roman 

Campaigns

Bestiary

Miscellanea

Overview Overview Atlantis

Non-Gloranthan Page
The Dilbert Page (Worth 50 DNRC Points)


Number of Worshippers so Far

Will I reach Apotheosis? Not at This Rate

At This Great Temple

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