#glorantha

[kleioscanvas]

Beware the Reaching Moon

#artists on tumblr #fantasy #illustration #digital art #fantasy art #runequest #glorantha #character art #character design #ancient #I had the idea of representing the eyes of the crimson bat as nazar beads in my lunar art and I think it's pretty neat #what better way to ward off evil than with an even worse evil?

[oldschoolfrp]

That old time religion -- Followers of Wakboth (the Devil, the Doom of the World) seek a return to the Great Darkness when Chaos reigned across Glorantha (Guillaume Sorel, Runequest supplement Les Dieux de Glorantha, Oriflam for Avalon Hill & Chaosium, 1987)

#Runequest #Guillaume Sorel #Glorantha #human sacrifice #Les Dieux de Glorantha #skull mountain #evil cleric #Wakboth #evil altar #statue #JDR #jeu de role #jeu de rôle #Oriflam #Avalon Hill #Chaosium

[haveyouplayedthisttrpg]

Have you played RUNEQUEST ?

By Steve Perrin, Ray Turney, Steve Henderson, and Warren James

The grand daddy of d% based RPGs, RuneQuest is a fantasy role-playing set in Greg Stafford's original fantasy setting of Glorantha and the game that would serve as the basis for Chaosium's Basic Roleplaying system that powers games such as Call of Cthulhu and King Arthur Pendragon.

Glorantha is a bronze age setting that operates on mythic logic: the world is still young, since time only began relatively recently as a result of a cataclysmic theomachy, and many of the founding myths that shape the world are not just myths but the literal truth. The Hero Wars time period of at least the first and second editions of the game was centered largely on the region of Dragon Pass, which also appeared in the cool as hell video game King of Dragon Pass.

As a game RuneQuest is clearly a reaction to early Dungeons & Dragons in many ways: characters advance organically by training or learning skills through use, magic isn't arbitrarily restricted by "class," and combat is notably less abstract and more blow-by-blow than in D&D. There is also an attempt to integrate the setting very strongly with the mechanics, aptly demonstrated by the various organizations and cults characters can join to unlock new avenues of advancement.

#tabletop rpg #ttrpg #poll #poll time #usa #1970s #runequest #glorantha

[scribblingsorsomething]

Runequest duck doodles.

#runequest #runequest rpg #glorantha #ttrpg #ttrpg art #duck #sketch #sketching #fantasy #my artwork

[petterwass]

Guys I think I found a scam God.

I feel like this dude isn't entirely trustworthy

#Glorantha

[eleemosynecdoche]

How could OilFire exist in Glorantha? Even if it completely shouldn't.

There are shamans in Glorantha, and shrine maidens/miko are understood in scholarship to be similar in terms of religious practices to shamans in other cultures. There are also people who are descended from supernatural beings, and at least two characters have multiple moms. So that's Sanae.

There are of course foxgirls in Glorantha, ones known for mischief and illusions. There are even, extending out what we know about certain cultures, highly "modern" supernatural environments where someone could be a gig/freelance worker. So we've got a Tsukasa.

Megumu is somewhat difficult, because Glorantha handles these kinds of liminal figures very differently. But the dynamic of birdgirl ordering foxgirl around and foxgirl escaping into the arms of a spiritist is at least vaguely in line with certain metamythic tendencies, and you could even fit Chimara and Momoyo into that without too much trouble.

There's one final element needed for Oil Fire: the beautifully healing cringe sex. And Glorantha is so full of healing cringe. Cities named after correction fluid marks by mistake, or the phrases "not yet" and "done. stop." Eat at Geo's. Bob's Bison Burgers.

In this way, Oil Fire is essentially Gloranthan in its basic features. Sanae can pipe that tube fox across realities!

If you would like any more elaboration, just ask.

#glorantha #oil fire #touhou #sanakasa

[lyreofsheliak]

King of Dragon Pass: clan creation.

#king of dragon pass #kodp #glorantha

[vintagerpg]

This week on the Vintage RPG Podcast, Stu's crowing about one of his Christmas gifts, The Meints Guide to Glorantha, by Chaosium president Rick Meints. The book amounts to the definitive guide to all publications to include material on Glorantha in existence (well, all the ones Rick knows about, which is certainly most of them, if not all of them). Entries consist of product photos as well as notes on production and design. He even has entries for Glorantha books that don't exist. How's that for exhaustive? There should be a book like this for every RPG line. 

#roleplaying game #tabletop rpg #ttrpg #dungeons & dragons #d&d #rpg #podcast #chaosium #Glorantha #Meints Index to Glorantha #RuneQuest #Rick Meints

[skunts-own-truth]

King of Dragon Pass is one of those games where I’m like “yeah, I know what I’m doing! I can run a clan of Orlanthi just fine,” and then comes the raging Stormbull cultist who cuts down 3 of my thanes to get at the guy I let join my clan… then come the dragonnewts that everyone wants me to chase away, but I leave alone because I wanna see what they get up to, and then come the fucking horse people and now my cattle are all gone and the farmers are pissed at me for trying to raid too much to get my cattle back, and ooooh boy. It’s all down hill from here, but at least the ducks of Dragon Pass all love me.

#Glorantha #King of Dragon Pass #Runequest #I’m not very good at video games

[aaronsrpgs]

Finally got my 2024 planner.

#runequest #glorantha

[commander-ledi]

how i won runequest, aka the saga of the penis tomes

like decade ago (both in real life, and in-game), our team was exploring tunnels underneath Pavis. we happened to stumble into a small library. my character found 20 blank books, and as a mature adult man, he filled every single of them with drawings of penises at various states of arousal, and hid the books among real books.

later it turned out that this library belonged to the local lunar leaders who were pulling strings behind the curtains. couple years later our team kicked lunars out of the city, and it turns out that they had taken all the books from the secret library as they left.

fast forward to our last two sessions. we are in all out war against lunars, and behind the scenes Jar-Eel reached out to us to inform that Red Emperor has got little too enthusiastic with dabbling with chaos magic to put it lightly, and she, and every lunar who is not busy committing atrocities to further the grips of chaos gods on the heart of the empire wants him off the throne. Nobody can really do anything, but outsiders with no ties to the religions could. in other words, we have to kill him.

we discussed the terms of this agreement, and the only demand my character made, is that Jar-Eel had to tell me the fate of the penis books.

the next time we met, she told what happened to the books. she was able to tell only the fate of 6 of the books, but honestly... it was better than anything i could have ever hoped for.

they ended up in the emperor's palace, and one of his closest advisors had mistakenly grabbed a penis book off shelf, and brought it with him into an important meeting, and he opened it it, and everyone saw the penises. this caused a massive scandal, which resulted all the elite lunar guard to have to look through every single book in the palace to ensure that this will happen never again. this also naturally caused security concerns, because nobody could figure out how 6 books filled with penis drawings had ended up in the palace.

Jar-Eel said that on hindsight it should have been obvious where the books came from (every time important lunars are targeted by "attack" that is annoying, childish, but completely harmless, our team is always behind it. our favorite hobby is to annoy important people without actually doing something that breaks any rules, or can be considered as attack)

#runequest #glorantha

[kleioscanvas]

"Nor will we overlook Eserela, that sweet woman who was hard where Teelo Estara was soft, cruel where She was kind, and, most importantly, kind where She was cruel."

-From Greg Stafford's "Lives of Sedenya", describing the lovers of the Red Goddess before her ascension into the Middle Air.

#artists on tumblr #illustration #fantasy art #sapphic #wlw art #runequest #glorantha #ttrpg #mythology

[oldschoolfrp]

Runequest: Creatures of Glorantha, set of 25mm miniatures sculpted by Bob Charrette for Ral Partha, with box art featuring the dark troll, warrior dragonewt, walkatpus, and dragonsnail (I see no signature; CB Gorby and Tony Orzech contributed some of the art for other sets in this series)

#Runequest #Ral Partha #Glorantha #dragonewt #walkapus #dragonsnail #dark troll #troll #trollkin #octopus #monsters #giant snail #fantasy miniatures #miniatures #Creatures of Glorantha #Bob Charrette #Robert Charrette #Robert N Charrette

[gilgalahad]

#katrin moondaughter #glorantha

[silver-leaf-girl]

A commission I did for a Glorantha book, part of the Jonstown Compendium of fan work.

For those not familiar with Glorantha (you might know it as the setting for King of Dragon Pass), it's a bronze-age fantasy setting written by Greg Stafford, an anthropologist. There's some bits that are a bit 'hmmm', but overall - it's a fresh and enthralling take on the fantasy genre, driven by a genuine interest in how ritual works in Bronze Age societies (I've heard it described as 'as Tolkien was to linguistics, Stafford was to mythology).

The paintings here intend to showcase one of the rituals in question, with a hero being anointed and girded to assume a mythic role (specifically Humakt, deity of swords and truth and death!)- around her, her masked clan-members prepare her for her transit into the mythic realm, while above her, Humakt himself wields/blesses the blade that she takes up. The second painting was for the back cover - it shows a devotee of Eurmal, trickster and storyteller, entertaining a couple of children and inducting them into the clan's mythic cycle, while their hunting cat (an alynx - Gloranthan cultures tend to favour cats where Earth ones would dogs) looks on.

Both paintings were done in gouache, early in the pandemic. I wanted to capture a sense of genuine mystery and weird spiritual power, and also to present a female Humakti in a role that many character artists have usually shown a traditional male warriors. It's also one of my (too rare! I should get back to this!) experiments with light and darkness in a painting.

#glorantha #runequest #humakt #heroquesting #eurmal #gouache #fantasy art

[petterwass]

Runequest really said that Trans women are women and can join exclusively female priesthoods as long as they are bred first

(Priestesses of Ernalda must have born a healthy child to assume office)

So you know what to do...

#keep cumming in her gay ass #Runequest #glorantha #Ernalda #Trans rights