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Author Topic: Glorantha (photos all gone, don't bother)  (Read 33197 times)

Offline Paleskin

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Re: Glorantha
« Reply #15 on: July 13, 2014, 11:11:43 PM »
Great brushwork :o

Guy with the quiff looks strangely familiar? ;)

Offline War In 15MM

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Re: Glorantha
« Reply #16 on: July 13, 2014, 11:15:21 PM »
Beautiful painting. 

Offline DeafNala

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Re: Glorantha
« Reply #17 on: July 13, 2014, 11:21:01 PM »
That is quite an impressive collection of BEAUTIFUL miniatures that share the common factor of being WONDERFULLY painted & based. FANTASTIC WORK!
I'd NEVER join a club that would have me as a member.  G.Marx

Offline marcusluis

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Re: Glorantha
« Reply #18 on: July 13, 2014, 11:48:48 PM »
Used to play 2nd and 3rd edition Runequest, i think 3rd was just a GW reprint of 2nd though, used to have some of the GW RQ minis as well...aahh happy days!!! :-* :-*

Offline FramFramson

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Re: Glorantha
« Reply #19 on: July 13, 2014, 11:49:02 PM »
Wow, a TON of VERY EXCELLENT WORK here!


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Offline Duff

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Re: Glorantha
« Reply #20 on: July 14, 2014, 01:33:02 AM »
Its not Runequest with out the ducks lol lol.. are they conversions??

First one is a conversion, he's a Hasslefree roman hobbit with the head from the Mongoose duck set. The other two are both available from Fenris Games as they are.

Offline Centaur_Seducer

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Re: Glorantha
« Reply #21 on: July 14, 2014, 10:13:51 AM »
Oh wow! :o
I really tried to like Glorantha, and believe me I really do, but when I started to collect the rpg, there was just way to much to find and read. A bit sad that I missed the kickstarter, but I hope to borrow a copy from a friend that ordered two...

Offline LeadAsbestos

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Re: Glorantha
« Reply #22 on: July 14, 2014, 12:29:02 PM »
Between Duff and the boys at Fenris, I'm being slowly dragged back into RQ, after nearly 25 years away! Still got all my old books, just couldn't bear to sell them off. If those new Trolls turn out as good as they look to be, I'll be back 100%!

Great painting! Glorantha does seem intimidating when you first start, but it is such a fascinating mythology and setting, discovering what it is all about is half the fun...

Offline axabrax

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Re: Glorantha
« Reply #23 on: July 14, 2014, 02:36:03 PM »
Love Glorantha but couldn't deal with the weird changes over the last 30 years.

Where are the Dragon newts?



Offline Momotaro

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Re: Glorantha
« Reply #24 on: July 14, 2014, 04:31:17 PM »
Love Glorantha but couldn't deal with the weird changes over the last 30 years.

Moon Design/Issaries Inc publishes reprints of the classic RQ2 supplements Pavis & Big Rubble, Borderlands, Griffin Mountain and a Cult Compendium (Cults of Prax/Cults of Terror).  Everything is polished and updated - Cults Compendium, for example, contains more additional religions.  Printed and PDF formats.

So you can play like it's 1983 all over again!  There's enough material in there to keep you going for years.

Design Mechanism, who make the rather splendid RuneQuest 6, are planning a Glorantha introductory supplement called Adventures in Glorantha.  Funnily enough...

And if you fancy trying RuneQuest 6 but don't want to pay £40 for it, the excellent RuneQuest Essentials is free on their website.  At 200 pages, it's as long as some older full versions of the game!

http://www.thedesignmechanism.com/resources/RuneQuest%20Essentials.pdf

Until Adventures in Glorantha comes out, fan-made RQ6 cult write ups can be found in their forums.

A lot of the Mongoose Glorantha material can be found cheap on EBay, DriveThruRPG, or under the Mongoose Legend imprint.  Legend is the immediate precursor to RQ6 - the authors were limited in their page count and RQ6 is what they WANTED to make.

There's at least two Mongoose books that cover Dragonewts in great detail, including PC character generation...
« Last Edit: July 14, 2014, 04:36:00 PM by Momotaro »

Offline Momotaro

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Re: Glorantha
« Reply #25 on: July 14, 2014, 04:39:17 PM »
Oh wow! :o
I really tried to like Glorantha, and believe me I really do, but when I started to collect the rpg, there was just way to much to find and read. A bit sad that I missed the kickstarter, but I hope to borrow a copy from a friend that ordered two...

See my post above - get the free RQ Essentials, and then I'd go for the Moon Design Classics.  These really are the core of the setting, although focus has shifted from the Plains of Prax and Pavis to Sartar vs Lunars in the past decade or two ;)

A lot of the Mongoose (2000s) material is for 2nd Age Glorantha - basically the rise and catastrophic downfall of two over-mighty empires.

The Classic (80s) and Avalon Hill (90s) material is set in the 3rd age, and the most common setting sees the players either 1) in Dragon Pass witnessing or fighting in the Lunar Empire's invasion of Sartar, or 2) the nearby Plains of Prax and City of Pavis, as Sartarite exiles, Lunar invaders or general treasure-hunters and adventurers.

Lastly (!) the Issaries Heroquest material (early 2000s) is close to systemless and may be of general use to you as background.

Start there, then work your way out - there's a whole world to explore.
« Last Edit: July 14, 2014, 04:46:49 PM by Momotaro »

Offline Michka

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Re: Glorantha
« Reply #26 on: July 14, 2014, 04:49:15 PM »
I never got into Runequest. That said I was always intrigued by the Ducks. I picked up only one RQ book, and that's the Mongoose Duck book. Your miniatres have me thinking about taking a closer look at Glorantha. After all, I need some way to use that box set of Mongoose Duck miniatures I picked up.

Oh, and the Walktopus. I need a Walktopus. Who couldn't love a Walktopus?   :D

Offline Admiral Benbow

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Re: Glorantha
« Reply #27 on: July 14, 2014, 05:04:41 PM »
Beautiful collection and marvelous painting!  :-*


Offline marcusluis

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Re: Glorantha
« Reply #28 on: July 14, 2014, 06:52:33 PM »
What we need now is a Glorantha based skirmish game!!

Offline tradgardmastre

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Re: Glorantha
« Reply #29 on: July 14, 2014, 08:01:00 PM »
Indeed!
You are welcome to visit my Duchy of Tradgardland blog at:
http://tradgardland.blogspot.com/ and my 20th century gaming blog at : http://armyredwhite.blogspot.com/
New interwar imaginations blog at:
http://interbellumimaginations.blogspot.com/

 

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