Glorantha Initiation: Chris, Lived-in Worlds, and Grounded Campaigns

This twelfth episode of the Glorantha Initiation series brings us to the last of the interviews we recorded in the fall of 2021! We are talking to Chris, who discovered RuneQuest 2nd edition just last year and, only a few weeks later, upgraded to RuneQuest: Roleplaying in Glorantha! He doesn’t have an ongoing Gloranthan campaign yet but we talk about his sudden love for the setting, playing soloquests, and his plans for a future game. Things mentioned in this episode include: BECMI red box D&DRuneQuest 2nd edition softcover and PDF reprint“Glorantha Classics” book collections, bundling RQ2 materialGrounded and lived-in worldsThe Mystara setting for D&D (more also here)BRP Central forumsTelling smaller stories, about the simple villages and their farmers and craftersRuneQuest Weapons & Equipment sourcebookHeroQuest Glorantha (now out of print) and the new version of its narrative system, QuestWorldsThe Red Cow campaign for HeroQuest Glorantha: The Coming Storm and The Eleven Lights (also out of print)Sartar: Kingdom of Heroes for HeroQuest Glorantha (guess what, it’s out of print too)Toning down the superheroes with BRP rulesCSI vs James BondCampaigns are TV shows, one-shots are moviesTraveller (the latest Mongoose edition) and Traveller (the classic version)Mercator, a Traveller hack to play in the Roman Empire (scroll towards the end of the page)Men of the Sea, for HeroQuest 1st edition (out of print)Simplifying NPC stats by using the same standard numbersTunnels & Trolls (physical and digital)RuneQuest Starter Set, with its soloquest playable onlineTraveller Starter Set (out of print, but the digital version is still available)“Alone against” series for Call of CthulhuSolo games and journaling games: Thousand Year Old Vampire, The Broken Cast, Secrets of the Vibrant IsleKhan of Khans Gloranthan family board gameMagic World (it seems gone from Chaosium’s website, but still available on DriveThruRPG)The D20 OGLRisus the Anything RPGGhengisCon in Colorado