Tuesday, January 24, 2023

WHY I (ACTUALLY) LIKE SORCERY IN RUNEQUEST ROLEPLAYING IN GLORANTHA, PART THREE

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This is the third in a series of articles. Read the first here and the second here . The average modern man's relationship with nature...
Monday, January 23, 2023

WHY I (ACTUALLY) LIKE SORCERY IN RUNEQUEST ROLEPLAYING IN GLORANTHA, PART TWO

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This is part two of a series. See Part One here. Not A Bad System, Really SO FAR AS MAGIC SYSTEMS GO, the Sorcery rules presented in the thi...
Thursday, January 19, 2023

WHY I (ACTUALLY) LIKE SORCERY IN RUNEQUEST ROLEPLAYING IN GLORANTHA, PART ONE

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THE YEAR IS 1984, and Sorcery--fashionably late--arrives at the party. The first edition of RuneQuest (1978) had introduced us to two types...
Thursday, January 12, 2023

A Few Thoughts on Open Game Licenses

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IF YOU ARE READING THIS, I assume you know the situation. In a nutshell: Wizards of the Coast, owner of the Dungeons & Dragons "br...
Wednesday, January 11, 2023

CRIMSON KING, ANOTHER RUNEQUEST REVIEW

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Moonstruck Blame it on Aristotle. It was his theory, that because it was the "moistest" organ in the body, the brain was the organ...
Tuesday, January 10, 2023

HYDRA - ADVENTURERS FROM THE LUNAR PROVINCES, a RuneQuest Review

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The Joy of Jonstown One of the greatest assets of a program like the Jonstown Compendium is content. Glorantha--the setting of the world-fa...
Thursday, December 29, 2022

DIRTY BRP TRICKS

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Since I first started playing their games back in the early 80s, Chaosium’s Basic RolePlaying —the engine that powers most of their RPGs—has...