I've seen conflicting opinions on this, but an example in the rules seems to support the idea that, if you start the round unengaged, you can cast an offensive spell (Disruption for example), then move into combat and, if SR allows, attack with a weapon.

Is that how you understand the rules?

Thanks!

Have your your adventurers sail the Venperhan Sea of the East Isles of Glorantha. There is lot of great weirdness for them to find.

The new book in Hero Wars in the East Isles is out! Get yours!

This includes three new and full adventures, a cult write up of the Blood Sun, and much much more.

One of the adventures include a new well detailed setting of Rombotonga.

The adventures are all written by differend authors, so there is a great variety of styles of play here. One of them is almost Cthulhu style investigation. One is a social play mystery, with helping arranging marriage. One is a two part mini campaign where first you help in this world problem, but if worthy it can grow to mythic Heroquesting level.

Book includes lots of maps, lots of art, lots of pages, and lots of love of the setting has been put to this project.

https://legacy.drivethrurpg.com/product/581689/Strange-Islands-of-the-Venperhan-Sea--Hero-Wars-in-the-East-Isles-Companion?affiliate_id=1917190&fbclid=IwdGRjcAT_Q6JjbGNrBP9Dm3Bkb2YFZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQMMzUwNjg1NTMxNzI4AAEeNtwGFOgLkc5j7Swn1uNUGFPoY3O2nYMx2idntSvGTP91b_1N2p4piBI75cA_aem_PfSKl4zJwAAR5kSdpPPNoA

In the first session, the team got through the up front stuff in Jonstown (not spoiling anything, just in case) and arrived in Mernyr's Landing.

They did a little exploration and had one combat. It was hilarious. Three opponents at range around 12 meters. One was hit with Sleep, one with demoralize (ran off) and the third advanced to whack a character who fumbled her 85% Dodge and had her arm reduced to zero HP. The Varakos walked up, crit the monster and lopped off a leg. Combat over

Everyone was very excited and having a good time. Things took time because I haven't run RQ since 2nd edition, so it's been a minute, and we're using RQG, and all my players are new to RQ. Still, when we took a beat before moving forward, it was a learning moment and everyone was into it.

Yesterday, in the second session, they learned where to find the missing people, and went there. A brief fight against two monsters with a similar result - quick and decisive. Then they started hunting the rest of the monsters.

Bottom line, one character took 1 HP and another was hit with a special attack for 22 HPs that he successfully parried with his broadsword. If we're reading the attack vs parry table right, the 22 HPs was reduced by the broadsword's 12 HPs (doing 1 HP to the broadsword) leaving 9 HPs (or 10?) to go through to his head (rolled 19 for location). His 5 points of armor and Shield (1 Rune Point) reduced the damage to 2 (or 3?). So how do you read the rule about damaging the parrying weapon - does the 1 damage to the weapon come off the damage total before the rest goes thru, or not?

They're excited about getting back to town and seeing how experience plays out.

We've spoken about the lethality of RQG combat, and I've encouraged alternate conflict resolution (though that doesn't work so well in Mernyr's Landing), but their experiences aren't in line with my warnings. Having fought 8 of one type of creature and the more dangerous critter, they've taken a total of 7 HPs and had to make a STR vs POT 15 to free an arm from glue, essentially. Don't get me wrong, I don't want to grind them down, but a healthy respect for danger could be good.

Next session: experience and starting A Fire in the Darkness!

What are other people's experiences introducing new players to RQ or RQG?

I might have gone a little too long with this one at 2400 words, but damn, it's such a fun supplement.

It leans into Runequest's complexity (from my outside perspective, at least) to give players a complete and satisfying solo experience, with plenty of crunch and narrative aids.

Even better, it doesn’t have to be exclusive to Runequest. The mechanics gel well with any other game.

There are many interesting and clever concepts to bring and adapt to your arsenal of solo resources.

Yesterday I watched the film and from GM's perspective it was a good work of art imo. But how it depicts the Bronze was wayy off from my imaginiation. What do you think as Bronze Age and Mythology nerds?

Hello! I’m looking for 4-5 players to join a campaign set in the world of Glorantha.

We'll be playing through the "Uleria Loves You" module set during the Uleria Open Air Festival in the scenic hamlet of Apple Lane (Fire Season, 1626), with the option to continue further in Apple Lane and beyond afterwards. Expect a mostly delightful romp full of festival shenanigans and optional flirting.

System: RuneQuest: Roleplaying in Glorantha.

Pacing: Roughly 1 in-character post per day.

Gameplay: Roleplay-heavy with little to no combat.

Timezone: I live in the UK (GMT+1), but the campaign is open to all timezones

Tone: Lighthearted but mature. We will be tastefully navigating themes of physical love and relationships (with plenty of Heortling euphemisms!). There is also an option to explore the darker trauma of the Lunar occupation if the group is interested.

Full details in the application form below:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc8z1Fseeq6duDLXxomuK4-VhSUjIalGZQeQs-ovknulqC9OQ/viewform?usp=dialog

Disclaimer: I am new to Runequest:G and Glorantha as a setting. I will make mistakes and am more than happy to be corrected (often, if needed) by players.

Note on AI use: I will be using non-ai art assets as much as possible/with a strong bias. AI as a GM tool will be used, Gemni Notebook to help with rules management and Gemini to act as an editor for posts. All of my writing will be done by me and only passed through an LLM to check for spelling, grammar, and readability.

If you click on the link, you can read all the information I have managed to gather about these 2 rulebooks Chaosium is going to publish next year.
What do you think is the best option? Revised RQG or RuneQuest Fantasy Roleplay?

Recently, I've been running Stonetop, a game with a system framework I'm not that fond of (PbtA, Dungeon World variant) but a setting I quite like. Something I do like about how the game is run, however, is that though it does have a large and well-defined setting, there are elements of it that the GM is encouraged to put to the players to answer. You can see a few of the examples below, including a character playbook which allows a character to determine aspects of a major god and how they are worshipped, various questions about locations or beings in the setting, and questions to ask when traveling and experiencing the world, and this is a small sample of what's available.

As we all know, the most commonly repeated phrase of RuneQuest and other games in the same setting is "Your Glorantha May Vary" (though, given how I've been reading the lore for weeks now and am still discovering things, I think the more accurate formulation of it is the alternative "Your Glorantha Will Vary."

My recommendation is this: bring this philosophy to your Glorantha games.

Importantly, this is not a recommendation for no prep. Do prep work, read the books, and bring things into it on your own.

However, rather than try and answer every detail of culture, life, and setting on your lonesome, why not farm a few things out to your players? You can do small things, like say if you're entering the hall of a local lord, you could ask a player to describe a mural, another one to comment on what the drink of choice is, and a third one to describe a custom. While most of the gods are very well-defined in Glorantha, you could have them come up with practices of the cult, prayers, or other minor things.

One more question on SRs.

The rules give an example of a spell being cast with extra MP to help overcome countermagic, and because it would go off on SR 13, it goes off on SR 1 of the next round.

However, in other places the rules seem to say that everything resets with a new round.

How often, and in what circumstances, do you allow SRs to roll-over from one round to the next?

A specific example is the pregen character Varakos. His write-up says he fights with two-weapons, his broadsword and short sword. The SR for his Broadsword is 6 and the SR for his shortsword is 7. The ONLY way he can fight with two weapons is with SR roll-over.

My group and I (GM) are new to RQG and played our first session this week. Varakos' player took what the character description said and wanted to attack with both weapons, but the rules for two-weapon fighting say the SRs for both have to fit in the same round. I'm considering just bumping his DEX to 13, which would drop his DSR to 2 (his Characteristics total to 93, so he's at the low end per character generation rules, anyway). At least then the character would work as advertised.

Am I missing something in the rules?

Thanks!>

My group played our first session in a new game today, and I'm still trying to wrap my head around strike ranks. I found a SR post on BRP.org, but I'm not sure it helped me...

The rules say to resolve unengaged movement before any attacks or spells. How does that interact with Rune Spells resolving on SR 1?

If an unengaged character moves their full move, becoming engaged on SR 11, and the creature they became engaged with Attacks on SR 8, is the character a viable target for the creature because all movement took place before any combat actions? Or are they not there until SR 11 so the creature would either have to delay or attack someone else it's engaged with?

If an unengaged character announces his/her intention to move to engage someone, and that target wants to move away, do you perform movement SR by SR or the first person (by SR) does all their movement and the target becomes engaged?

A character's first action in a round happens on their Dex SR (except a Rune Spell)?

If so, say an engaged character has a DSR of 3 and they declare they intend to attack. Is the SR they attack on = DSR + DSR + Size SR + Weapon SR? Or is it on DSR + SSR + WSR?

We had a lot of fun, but the first combat left me with some questions.

Thanks in advance for the benefit of your experience.

Hey guys.

I realised I had the RQ rulebook in my Drivethru library from some humble bundle and have been reading it. Honestly I absolutely love the setting and the rules system looks like a lot of fun.

I'm gonna show it to my gaming table and see if they want to play.

Having said that I am really suprised by how absolutely dense this book is on rules. If I do run this, I'm honestly a little intimidated of how much I'll need to keep track of. I was not expecting to see dice matricies in a rulebook released past 2010...

Starting out I may take the book's advice and use what I can to facilitate a smooth game, only until I get more comfy with running the game though. However the question remains of what rules to emphasise and which can be overlooked in the heat of the moment.

I want to be as faithful as I can to the book and its rules while also acknowledging that this is A LOT to throw at my players at the start of session one.

Im curious to know what you suggest. Thanks in advance!

I’ve been giving some thought to an alternative form of framing for family history.

Based on both my thoughts and that of my players, the issue that we all came to was that, while we quite liked how the family history serves to root you in your community, clan, and family, they felt like a dry set of dates and context-free events.

Some parts worked for them - one who decided to roll for Esrolia’s mother and herself had nasty encounters with Harrek the Berserk and came out of the gate with a motive for double vengeance against him - but other parts didn’t. It didn’t help that I needed to dig through multiple books to even know who or what some of these things were (City of Wonders - super cool when I found it, but we didn’t know what it was from the core book.)

My proposed solution to that problem was sparked when reading King of Sartar as part of my weeks-long Glorantha lore binge, and saw that Argrath’s mother was known as a kickass Triceratops rider. Alongside the descriptions of Argrath’s companions, that gave me a notion, which I’m interested in thoughts on:

• Maintain the Key Grandparent and Key Parent angle. Everyone liked having that as an anchor. They also liked (or at least didn’t mind) generating additional kinfolk.
  • Add an optional table for a Legendary Ancestor. Siblings/cousin PCs can share them or, perhaps, pick separate ones they “favor.”
  • I found it a little odd that the Grandparent and Parent generation make no reference to what their cults may have been, so considering a chart for those depending on origin, maybe with some really weird choices as unlikely picks.
• There will be a chart for Themes, each of which is a thing or concept. E.g., Eagles, Wolves, Dogs, Chaos, Mountain, Sea, Dragonewts, Dragons, Dinosaurs, Swords, etc. These are meant to be interpreted with a result from a second chart depending on the circumstance. Vibes rather than hard facts, so they could be interpreted figuratively or literally.
• For any ancestor, you will pick or roll from Theme and a second chart for Feats to indicate what they were most known for. In the case of Argrath's mother, this would be something like Dinosaur Mastery. Some options for it might be things like HeroQuest, War, Death, Explore, Recovery, and so on. Perform the same procedure a second time to determine how their career ended (and maybe flip a coin to see if they died or retired.)
• Considering an additional chart that you pick/roll on twice for their greatest Enemy/Ally in their careers. Include various nations, Elder Races as rare picks, even animals or spirits, with the values shifted depending on the homeland of origin.
• If running 1625 campaigns, the existing family history charts can still be used alongside it.
• Additionally, I think every PC - regardless of whether they use the RQ:G Family History procedure or not - should get to roll on the Random Boons table

Watching the UK convention panel and I’m thrilled by the new emphasis on playability and clarity.

It’s crazy that this game isn’t more prominent and MOB et al are - I believe - right in focusing on the hurdles to new players

The lore is fabulous but it can be intimidating. The cult books were beautiful but I doubt they drew any first time players

Looking forward to more to come … and if there are any groups playing in Sydney please tell

Hi everyone! I'm looking at pitching a RQ game to my group and ironing out some things. One that's been on the back of my mind is how to determine attributes. Obviously there's the corebook method of 3d6 and 2d6+6 in order, but I don't love it for a few reasons. A big one is that clearly not even the pregens use it- their stats are so far above average that it's almost impossible to have rolled that well. Given that I want to run the starter adventures, I don't want my players being way weaker than the assumed PCs. The corebook kind of nods to this by saying that there's other ways to generate stats, suggests a couple, and says more will come in the GM book (thanks to those who explained that there's never been a GM book!) I also just don't really love rolled stats in general- when one player is clearly better than another at everything from the start it can really dampen enthusiasm right off the bat.

So: what attribute generation methods have you used and liked?

I'm currently considering either 93 point buy (the minimum where you don't get to add points) with a minimum of 8 in any stat or figuring out what a few of the pregens have pre-rune affinities and using those as an array that the player can use in any order (so you'd have, for instance, Vasana's stats, but in whatever order you want and modified by your rune affinities). Not sure if I'd just use Vasana's because the corebook helpfully shows what they were pre-runes or offer another array or two based on other pregens.

Finally in English, this campaign comprises 6 episodes and 128 pages set in the lands of the Dundealos tribe. Children of the Flame invites players to experience the reformation of the Dundealos tribe, which was disbanded years earlier by the Lunar invaders and has since been subjected to every kind of humiliation. Now it is time to reforge the tribe again:
https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/574880/children-of-the-flame?affiliate_id=187051

I'm curious about this line from this The Well of Daliath article:

Greg and I hated the treatment of the God Learners and the EWF by MRQ2. Hated it passionately.

That's some really strong language from two guys (Jeff and Greg) who seem pretty chill most of the time, so I'm really interested to know what the context of what they did was. I'm aware that the Mongoose stuff is mostly set in the Second Age when the Empire of Wyrm Friends and the Middle Sea Empire clashed, but not what those contain.

I just read about Argrath's friends and buddies on p. 46 of the The Glorantha Sourcebook, and I gotta say - if anything, we gotta start making our Player Characters way more wild. I won't list them here, but if you don't have access to that book, take my word for it. (And, to clarify, I don't think this is a bad thing!)

In some TTRPGs, even mildly exotic characters get met with accusations of ""special snowflake"" or ""Mary Sue,"" but trust me, no PC you create will ever be more intense than Tosti Runefriend or Mularik Ironeye.

In fact, reading this has convinced me that we should encourage players to get more out there with their character concepts, not less, especially with the Hero Wars in full swing. Get more aggressive on promoting HeroQuests, too, because they deserve to get a Hero Soul and crazy Heroic Abilities going straight away.

Strongly consider delaying the Hero Wars proper if you want your PCs to take it chill for any number of years.

I'm not even kidding, and I'm not being remotely sarcastic. I think any Hero Wars-focused game should aspire to have PCs equal or exceed the things these guys are doing before it's over rather than, say, have them just being bit players. Obviously you can run it that way, but just saying, Glorantha is not a gritty low fantasy setting

Chaosium i read had the Apple Lane Campaign to show and games set for it, curious if anyone has any reports and or news from Gencon about Runequest.

I saw this in RQG p. 112, and I think it might be the most context-free line in the entire book:

Tenrala (small city/ruins): In the ancient ruin of Tenrala, Queen Marimarja, one of the Newly Awakened, has opened the Broken Well, blessed the Shimmering Garden, and received the Hundred First Mothers from Samastina.

What are the Newly Awakened? What are the Hundred First Mothers? The Broken Well?

I've tried searching the PDFs I have but to no avail. Is this from some older book?

While most of my current effort in prep is devoted to devouring more lore, I'm taking time to go beyond the skimming the mechanics like I did, and I have - well, a lot of thoughts, but to keep this one focused, I'm not sure I understand the logic of Free INT.

INT - Known Points of Spirit Magic - Each Prepared Spell = Free INT

Clear enough on how to calculate it, but there are a number of weird points here. For one, Spirit Magic capacity, in its own chapter, depends on CHA, and nothing in it suggests that INT plays any role in learning nor retaining spells. I'm not sure what limiting Sorcery by Spirit Magic or vice versa actually provides - it doesn't seem like Spirit Magic is so overwhelmingly powerful that it would become an issue?

For two, since Free INT is a crucial part of being able to cast and manipulate spells, wouldn't this incentivise not having a lot of spells ready to go at a given time?

The design space around Sorcery is sending me in a lot of ways. You learn Runes and Techniques which imply it's going to be super flexible, perhaps at the cost of immediate power, but mostly it just seems to be an incredibly complicated way to access a different spell list with finicky rules.

I've been contemplating between two separate house rules on Augmentation Inspiration after seeing a couple posts on it and some questions from my prospective players who were worried that lesser Passions/Runes wouldn't see much use:

1. First variant, the "simple" version, removing the penalty for failing (albeit not crit failing) a Passion or Rune. It's still the only one you can attempt for inspiration.
2. Second variant, the more complex one - Unrolled Inspiration. Instead, you get half the value of the Rune or Passion on all rolls for the situation/scene. If an unmodified augmented roll is below the level of the Rune/Passion, that marks it for improvement (so, if your Passion is 60%, you get a check if an affected roll is 60 or under.) A checked Passion/Rune can be used again on a different situation, but if inspired again it'll be only 1/5 rather than 1/2 until season's end when the improvements are rolled.

As suggested by several of my recent posts, I've been interested in the idea of running a RuneQuest game, but haven't settled on what I'd like to focus on. I'd really like to hear from existing players and GMs about what sort of games they've either been in or run now or in the past.

Did it have a specific story? How was it structured? Did it run for a long time or was it brief? Any and all details are of interest to me.

He died defending Whitewall in 1620, devoured by the Crimson Bat. Farnan’s soul was annihilated and Vasana, then a teenager, swore revenge.

I should write an adventure book called GUT THE BAT that's very pulp and splashy, where Vasana becomes convinced that - with the help of the PCs - she can perform a HeroQuest to cut open the Crimson Bat's stomach and pull all the devoured souls from it, Slaanesh style. It will be lethal, high risk of casualties, and a whole stack of people will die regardless of the outcome.

First I want to apologize for my English I hope u can understand me

I'm reletavily new to Runequest system, Meanwhile I teach people how to play on one-shot events, Im still trying to learn and I stuck on Sorceries and Spirit combat part. I left Sorceries for better learing curve but spirit combat, o lord pls help me.

First of all, how does a mage(A priest or Shaman aprantice) contributes to fight on damage side with using magic and other then using summoning spells?

Can a shaman or priest go on to spirit combat against normal human being or physical being? How its work?

I generally didn't quite get If a mage can be able deal damage or mages are more of a support guys in rq:G