This episode starts with Jörg pronouncing our guest’s name wrongly! We welcome James Coquillat of Chaosium to talk about RuneQuest actual play and gamemastering. James is both on the digital content team and on the editorial team for Call of Cthulhu. You can find James at the following online places: James’ personal website Twitter The Chaosium Youtube channel, and in particular: The Chaosium video interview series The RuneQuest Starter Stream (ended) A New Hero (ongoing) The Stream of Chaos Discord server (invite link here) Show Notes James tells us about his gaming and professional car ..read more

Fionn fighting Aillen by Beatrice Elvery, Jason and the Argonauts by Columbia Pictures, Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay by Games Workshop In this episode of our Glorantha Initiation Series, we had the absolute pleasure of talking to Lee O’Connor. He came to Glorantha during the initial pandemic lockdown by way of his love for mythology and the fact that his middle-aged British gamer friends wanted to recapture the joy of their youth by playing RPGs again. We apologize for Lee’s squeaking and cracking chair, which causes some background noise during the interview. Where to Find Lee This is where you ..read more

Fionn fighting Aillen by Beatrice Elvery, Jason and the Argonauts by Columbia Pictures, Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay by Games Workshop In this episode of our Glorantha Initiation Series, we had the absolute pleasure of talking to Lee O’Connor. He came to Glorantha during the initial pandemic lockdown by way of his love for mythology and the fact that his middle-aged British gamer friends wanted to recapture the joy of their youth by playing RPGs again. We apologize for Lee’s squeaking and cracking chair, which causes some background noise during the interview. Where to Find Lee This is where you ..read more

Our guest for this episode is Harald Smith, aka Jajagappa. BRP Central profile RPGGeek profile You can also find Harald on the Facebook RuneQuest group and Jonstown Compendium Creators Circle group. Introduction Jajagappa is the dog-headed psychopomp of Saird, known for his net. Harald grew fond of this deity when diving into Saird, the region north of Dragon Pass. Harald started in the early eighties, in time for the classic RQ2 campaigns, and followed through the RQ3 era until he sort of dropped out in the late nineties. He resumed his activity around the time the Guide to Glorantha was in ..read more

We kick off this new season of the Glorantha Initiation series with the lovely Bridgett Jeffries, aka “the happiest voice in cosmic horror”! About Bridgett You can find Bridgett all around the internet, but in particular: Founder of Symphony Entertainment Community embassador for Chaosium and, just as I write this, promoted to coordinator of events and outreach (congrats Bridgett!) Author and contributor to many things on DriveThruRPG, especially on the Miskatonic Repository Streaming on the Symphony Entertainment YouTube channel and Twitch channel, the Chaosium YouTube channel, and many oth ..read more

In this episode Joerg is still taking a break, but Ludovic is here to welcome Evan Franke and JM DeFoggi (not to be confused with JM DeMatteis!) Exploring Glorantha Evan and JM are probably best known to listeners and readers of the God Learners as the hosts of Exploring Glorantha, the YouTube series that presents Glorantha in an accessible manner to the general public. But they are also part of Iconic Production, which does a lot more stuff! It started as a 13th Age actual play, but they now cover many other games. Ludovic mentions that subscribing to Iconic Production’s Patreon gives you ac ..read more

Drew Baker is back on the show to accompany Ludovic on the last leg of Biturian Varosh’s travels. Sadly Joerg could not make it this time, and stayed behind in Pavis to rest. Introduction Drew introduces himself and talks a bit about the upcoming book 4 of Duckpac, the last in the series about playing Duck characters in RuneQuest Glorantha. The three first books are available here: Duckpac Book 1: Myth, Legends, and Lore Duckpac Book 2: Adventurers Duckpac Book 3: Redfeather Dreaming Appropriately for the topic at hand, Drew also wrote “Highways & Byways“, a book on travelling across Dr ..read more

Art by Kristi Jones We are back into Gloranthan anthropology (more or less) for this episode, with our guest Brian Duguid, author of Children of Hykim. By virtue of having literally written a book on the subject, Brian is an expert in the Hsunchen, the stone age people who are each associated with a tribal totem animal. This topic might be rather unfamiliar to newcomers to Glorantha, since the Hsunchen are only mentioned briefly in the core RuneQuest books — mostly in the entry for the Telmori Wolfbrothers in the Glorantha Bestiary. Joerg wasn’t available for writing these show notes so they a ..read more

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&D RuneQuest 2nd edition softcover and PDF reprint “Glorantha Classics” book collections, bundling ..read more

For this episode we welcome two guests: Katrin Dirim and Claudia Loroff. The Guests Claudia is part of Jeff’s house campaigns with notable characters like Gina Gravedancer in the White Bull campaign, Yanioth, and the snake-dancer mystic in the HeroQuest Glorantha examples. Claudia is also the author of an upcoming Gloranthan cookbook. It is about 95% done, and is a travel guide accompanying Yanioth and Sorala, from Boldhome via New Pavis to Wintertop. The difficulty level is kept rather low. There are recipes for starting your own yeast or sourdough, although you can buy finished starters. Th ..read more