I was quite taken aback to learn that #Chaosium had lost the #Elric license.
They had that for decades but evidently the BBC got the rights for a Hawkmoon adaptation (which never materialised) and so Elric! and Stormbringer slipped out of print.
I'm not a big Elric-head but I remember the sheer number of Stormbringer modules and how some of them (Sea kings of the Purple Towns) were actually good #brp#ttrpg
@masukomi I am hacking a version of this to fit a multiverse hopping series of one shots. And am really excited to use it with #Glorantha materials. Aaron King also organized an Itch jam in December 2023 that included over 10 submissions of supplements and originals. https://itch.io/jam/speedrune-jam/entries
@Acantigue ooh I didn’t know about that jam. Thanks.
Glorantha is amazing, but I would absolutely hate to play in the world. I read one of the adventures they put out recently and there was this interaction with a ghost, but if you didn’t know the interplay & backstory of like five different gods you would not understand how to proceed or what was actually going on.
I prefer it as just a source of materials to steal from than something everyone at the table has to memorize
More adventure prep, this time for my not-quite- #unknownarmies#brp campaign DARK STAR. 1967 California, it's Twin Peaks meets 7 meets Pynchon. Crashed Aliens manipulate humans to enter the Dreaming in order to find a way home, a mad computer scientist turns murderous manipulated by his own AI which has struck a deal with the aliens, and the small town is subject to a secret governemnt drug experiment, becoming more open to the alien brain waves. Yes, only I get the flowchart. #pnpde#ttrpg
@SJohnRoss yes, it's about what I really need to have in front of me at the table and how I turn a cloud of ideas into a graphic overview I can riff off in my Improvisational GMing style.
@paul_denton@Ju_@Winston_Churchill non mais l’article parle bien plus de cette dernière et de son entourage, conseillers, officiels ou non, protégés et autres courtisants, c’est assez vomitif.
OK, running #RuneQuest with 3 adventurers is always going to be a dicey business. They won but one adventurer bled out from a head wound because the First Aid roll failed and the only other adventurer who could heal was in a one-on-one honor duel with a Humakti whilst this was happening… #CanCon#CattleRaid
About to meet the GM of the intermittent Sunday #RuneQuest game where I play the Axe Sister Varena. An actual FTF meeting! For the first time! And then breakfast.
A pleasant chat and breakfast was had. Now, after a larger lunch (a lamb rump) at La Capannina in Scarborough I’m going to walk for half an hour or so to a) walk off some of that lovely lunch and b) see Mum and c) Make my sports watch quiet down for a bit (it buzzes at me when I’m sedentary for too long in its opinion).
As I am delving further into #Glorantha , I am struck how the default assumption of #RuneQuest is that the player character are tightly bound to a specific clan and region - while in #DnD , the PCs are usually assumed to be "independent adventurers" beholden to no one (neither of these #ttrpg are limited to these approaches, but that's usually the starting point).
Which brings me to the scope of the games I have played in and run in the past. In my younger days, the PCs were often globetrotting - traveling from one country or region to the next. I suspect we were all influenced by "The Lord of the Rings" which, after all, is a huge travel quest.
But now, as I grow older, I usually run campaigns with a more regional focus. The PCs almost always have a fixed "home base", and there are lots of recurring NPCs they interact with - and scheme with or against. They will explore the surrounding regions, and their hometown will change over time - but they will always return home.
Thus, I am curious - what is the scope of your own campaign? Are the PCs homeless travelers who always move from one place to the next - or do they stick to a particular town or region?
As someone who struggled with #RuneQuest during the pre-Guide draught, it’s been a real pleasure to see the ancient RPG find new life thanks to #JeffRichards, the newest RQ2-compatible edition #RuneQuestGlorantha, a wave of new fans, and the amazing amount of new material such as #SixSeasonsInSartar.
Last sunday my #Runequest campaign started. 4 players at the table with different degree of #ttrpg experience and myself as GM and newbie to this edition of the game. We played A Rough Landing, part of the Starter Set. It went well! Combat is a bit crunchy, but everyone had fun.
Okay, I must say that reading through old #Glorantha / #RuneQuest#ttrpg material is certainly good for lots of interesting plot ideas, among other things.
Such as:
"The main cult of an expanding empire is planning to marry one of its priestesses to the city god of a remote city-state in order to tie that city closer to the empire!"
I hadn't come across that type of plot before, but it certainly has lots of potential for adventures...
"A god has died, and it’s up to Tara, a first-year associate in the international necromantic firm of Kelethras, Albrecht, and Ao, to bring him back to life before his city falls apart.
Her client is Kos, recently deceased fire god of the city of Alt Coulumb. Without him, the metropolis’ steam generators will shut down, its trains will cease running, and its four million citizens will riot.
"Yes, the Red Emperor has died a couple of times. And when he came back, he had different appearances and personalities. But he is always the same person!"
I've decided to start reading the #RuneQuest#ttrpg , and am currently reading the #Glorantha Sourcebook.
And I must say, Orlanth comes across as a massive jerk. Not only the whole "killing the Sun" thing, but also his "courtship" of Ernalda. Which seems to be mostly about him getting upset at her, and she doing her best to appease him - a pretty toxic relationship, in my opinion.
And it's refreshing - I'd rather have that than a setting where certain gods are "designated Good" despite all the evidence to the contrary (looking at you, Dragonlance...).
The Ram and Warrior faces Death. Yanafal Tarnils, guided by the Red Goddess, prepares to face Humakt in battle and become the Lunar War God. Picture by Katrin Dirim.
There's an explosion of graphic creativity with #Runequest:#Glorantha that never ceases to amaze me ! And I'm particularly fond of Katrin Dirim's art. It's intricate, full of symbolic details and captures a feeling of what antique art's vibrancy could have been. Wonderful.
Aktuell suche ich eine neue (online-) Runde #RuneQuest (in Glorantha) zunächst als Spieler. Ich bin halbwegs firm in den Regeln und ganz gut im Setting, würde ich sagen - entspannte Runden sind aber klar bevorzugt. Ich probiers einfach mal ☺️ #pnpde#pnpsuche
Ich plane so ganz unverbindlich meine „#Runequest, aber mit angepasstem Regelcrunch“ Onlinekampagne. Gäbe es überhaupt Leute, die sich dafür interessieren? 😅 #Glorantha#PnpDE
Thinking about my character for a new #RuneQuest campaign starting up next month. All the player characters come from the same clan, and start at 16 years old, so I'm going to have to remember what it's like to be a teenager. 🤣 Regarding profession, I'm thinking maybe hunter. #Glorantha#SixSeasonsInSartar
OK, so my character has an "awakened" cat, with INT. I think the cat's smarter than the human, although that wouldn't be the first time that's happened. 🤣 #RuneQuest#Glorantha#SixSeasonsInSartar
Mearls war einer der Designer von #DnD 5e. 2019 wurde bekannt, dass er einem Spieltester, dem sexueller Missbrauch vorgeworfen wird, Daten von Personen, die Beschwerden gegen diesen erhoben haben, weitergegeben haben soll. Mearls war bei #WotC zuletzt in enger Zusammenarbeit mit #LarianStudios für #BaldursGate3 zuständig und wurde dort im Dezember 23 entlassen
