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Tag: RuneQuest: Roleplaying in Glorantha
A fantasy game by Jeff Richard, Greg Stafford, Jason Durall, and Steve Perrin, published by Chaosium in 2018.
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Totally apolitical fantasy
I took the most recent iteration of the People and Play course, and as that came to an end, my partner and I decided that we’d about reached a natural endpoint for our game and for the characters’ stories. So this is a retrospective, especially in terms of- political content and where it comes from.…
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February 2023 Q&A
Lucky 13th time – I hope you like it, because this was a beast of a question series, across a wide variety of topics. I even get to revisit the Finding D&D series regarding current IP/OGL shenanigans. I promised Alessio a couple of links so here they are: Presentation: Why Glorantha (and its games) and…
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Cross-Gender Trouble and Play
There is a question that people tend to avoid asking in roleplaying game discussion, in my experience, even as they spend a fair amount of time articulating answers and implicitly presenting them. This question is along the lines of “How much am I allowed to deviate from my social positionality and my lived experiences in…
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Player new to the hobby revered as Lunar Saint for agreeing to play
Back in ~2003ish I read an article by Ron at The Forge about the Hero Wars RPG. He included some context about the Runequest system, and I managed to avoid it for the next 19.xx years, until Chaosium and Greg Stafford put together the Glorantha-forward “Runequest: Glorantha”. It took me until 2022 to discover it,…
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Unsuccesful Runequesting leads to successful play
This is my first post at Adept Play, so a little bit of background context may be in order. I’ve been exposed to roleplaying games since elementary school, made several tentative attempts to play them, ended up developing my understanding of how to play them slowly, starting in university and continuing to this day. I…
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Intersection of thoughts
Hans began quite a conversation at Discord, which I think deserves to be imported here and continued. It goes like this! HANS: So I’m reading the first adventure in the Starter set for Runequest: Roleplaying in Glorantha (the latest RQ rules published by Chaosium). The target audience is new GMs and players. The first situation…
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My Life as a Dog (in Glorantha)
WHO Me (playing) & Tavis (GM’ing) & our gaming group from twelve years ago. We’ve reconnected via video chat, and it’s really nice to see all these people after so long. One of the group was 16 when we met and kind of living a messy life; now he’s a licensed electrician and owns a house. PLAYING…
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4 More Sessions of Runequest!
My duet buddy and I played a climactic, explosive 14th session of Runequest: Roleplaying in Glorantha over the weekend, and I just had to share. I’m going to keep this as brief as possible (ha, I know, I know), but to get you to the scene I want to talk about you’re going to need…
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Let’s duck up some Lunars
I got to play a game of Runequest Glorantha with my spouse (Adrean) last night. We were working through the rules methodically as we learned the game, so there was roughly three or four scenes – I don't have a lot of thoughts yet, but there was this real awesome action scene at the end…