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Random Clan Terrain Generator
In 2015 I wrote a blog entry to randomly generate an Imperial Chinese Prefecture for TTRPGs set in Imperial China. I was quite satisfied with my article (itself based on a post on Éric Nieudan's...
View ArticleWhat is New with RuneQuest? (THE KRAKEN 2021)
OK, so unexpected shit happened and, as a result, I was unable to travel to THE KRAKEN this year. But as they say: ‘if you can’t travel to THE KRAKEN, THE KRAKEN will travel to you’, which it did...
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RuneQuest Starter Set
The RuneQuest Starter Set is available at last. Chock-full of Gloranthan goodness, it is an absolute must-buy for any serious TTRPG player and/or collector.chock-full of gaming stuff, for €25 onlyI'll...
View ArticleUltra-Fast Aldryami Character Generation
The day before yesterday, I wrote that the RuneQuest Starter Set contained all the rules needed to play RuneQuest: Roleplaying in Glorantha except for character generation.So if you’re not particularly...
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The RuneQuest RPG Wiki
The RuneQuest RPG Wiki is online at long last! Not to be confused with the fan-created Glorantha Wiki, which tackles Gloranthan lore, the RuneQuest RPG Wiki has been created and is maintained by the...
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Beware Online Scams!
Let's call this a "public service announcement". It's actually a Facebook post from a friend that I am propagating.SCAM SHOP WARNING!In light of a recent noticeable increase in scam dice shop ads...
View ArticleCulbrea after the Dragonrise
The following piece of news is from the latest episode of the God Learners podcast.A new official supplement, Culbrea after the Dragonrise, is in the works! The tribe and its territory will be...
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the Stafford House Campaign and the Barguest
I am currently reading ‘The Stafford House Campaign’, a collection of personal notes and of Amateur Press Association (APA) articles by Greg Stafford. These essays are a narrative of his early...
View Articlethe Gateway Bestiary and the Barguest
In my latest blog post, I wrote about the Barguest and, not having the Meints Index to Glorantha (MIG) at hand, I thought it hadn't been described in RQ terms.Well... yesterday night I retrieved my...
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Industry News (OGL Debacle, ORC, and Monster Revolution)
A lot has happened in our beloved RPG industry in the last few months and weeks.First of all, Flying Buffalo has sold Tunnels & Trolls to Webbed Sphere, who has been basically sitting on the IP and...
View ArticleCults of Glorantha
The tease is over! It appears we’ll be getting 10 books: the Prosopaedia plus a single book for each pantheon, instead of the three tomes (2 cults books + 1 prosopaedia) initially announced. Not sure...
View ArticleNew BRP Book Coming!
A replacement for the “Big Gold Book” is coming, along with a dedicated licence (ORC). Can’t wait!(from the bluebird site)🌟 Explore🌟 Create🌟 Play🌟 Basic Roleplaying: The Universal Game Engine is...
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5-Year RuneQuest Campaign Podcast
I have played an online RuneQuest campaign game set in Sartar for five years (I reckon it must be the second-longest I’ve ever played). We played approximately every fortnight; you can imagine the...
View ArticleGloranthan Magazine Indices
Shannon Appelcline has updated his Gloranthan magazine indices.The following ones are probably those of particular interest to readers of this blog: ★ Tales of the Reaching Moon, issues 1 to 20. ★...
View ArticleNew BRP Q&A
The Hardboiled GMshoe’s Office hosts a transcript of an interview Jason Durall gave about the new Basic Roleplaying book.Enjoy. [needless to say, I am expecting y’all to have already purchased the PDF...
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Arkat Podcast
Arkat is one of my favourite figures from the Gloranthan legendarium... probably even my favourite one, as he epitomises everything that sets Glorantha apart from all the other vanilla fantasy worlds:...
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Tunnels & Trolls Purchased by Rebellion
The exciting boring saga of the T&T purchases continues! After Rick Loomis’ sad passing in 2019, Tunnels & Trolls (along with all the other Flying Buffalo Inc games, with the exception of...
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The Lair of the Leopard Empresses is out!
A few months ago, I mentioned the fact that the Monsters! Monsters! engine (which is basically T&T without the name ‘Tunnels & Trolls’) would henceforth be available for third-party...
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New BRP Handouts
The Chaosium has just made available a free, 21-page downloadable PDF booklet with all the useful Basic Role-Playing tables and charts from the new edition of the Basic Role-Playing System.Amongst what...
View ArticleUltra-Fast As-You-Go Character Generation
QuestWorlds features a character generation option called the ‘As-You-Go Method’: instead of fully statting your adventurer at the beginning of the campaign, you simply sketch it to have a general idea...
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Dragonbane
The Basic Role-Playing System (aka ‘the Chaosium system’) started out as a very slim introductory booklet with just the barebones D100 rules. It wasn’t sold separately but was a free addition to many...
View ArticleBlack Friday 2023
Here is a summary of all the offers I have spotted until now (to be regularly updated):Chaosium— use the code BLACKFRI23 at check-out and get 10% off your order on chaosium.comMindjammer Press — 30%...
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R.I.P. Jennell Jaquays
Jennell Jaquays (14 Oct 1956−10 Jan 2024) has passed away. She was one of the last giants of the gaming industry from the Golden Age, on par with Greg Stafford and Steve Perrin. The Dragon, issue 21,...
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Animal Shape-Shifters in Glorantha
cover of DW #9With the exception of the Telmori, the lupine shape-shifters that play a central role in the lore of Dragon Pass and Sartar, and which have been extensively described in several RQ and HQ...
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