
After too long a hiatus, we are finally back! Well, almost, because Ludo is an idiot and got the time zones wrong while setting up the recording, so Joerg shows up a bit later. Ludo apologizes for messing that up but hey, this is an episode about Chaos, so…
Our Guest
We welcome once again Austin Conrad to the show!
- His website is Akhelas
- Get Treasures of Glorantha: Volume 2, one of the finest books on the Jonstown Compendium!
- We actually talked about that book, and magical items in general, for episode 31
- Austin’s ghost was summoned during our more recent episode on RuneQuest house rules
Show Notes
In this episode we chat about things like:
- Cult of Terror (RQ2, 1981)
- You can get it as a POD reprint or in PDF from Chaosium
- Dorastor: Land of Doom (RQ3, 1993)
- The Cults of Runequest sourcebooks (available here from Chaosium)
- Shadows on the Borderlands (RQ3, 1993)
- The first time the Gloranthan cosmology and history is presented in one text
- Worshipping Mallia as a non-Chaos deity, in a propitiatory way
- King of Dragon Pass
- RuneQuest Warlords
- Razalkark, the King of the Broos, and a “good boy”
- Cults of Prax (RQ2, 1979) and the tribulations of Biturian Varosh
- Our episode series on Biturian Varosh started back when we were the “Wind Words” podcast, and continued with guest Drew Baker early in the God Learners podcast
- The four philosophies and magic forms of Glorantha… plus a few more! Add you own!
- The usual suspects: the Guide to Glorantha, the Glorantha Sourcebook, and the Mythology book
- The entire cosmology and history of Glorantha in 10 pages! Boom! Done!
- Ludo’s favourite RuneQuest cover, by Jennell Jaquays (see the real wrap-around version!)
- A Gloranthan pronunciation guide! Can YOU pronounce Gloranthan deities’ names correctly?
- The Prosopaedia
- The Curse of Thed: it really sucks!
- Ludo got confused by his notes (“confusing notes” is a Chaotic feature!)
- “Reverse Chaos” was renamed “Curse of Thed” in RQG
- Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay features chaos corruption rules that affect the player characters, sometimes willingly
- We should be playing in Bilini and Dorastor, there’s a lot of fun stuff happening there!
- Is it Chaos, or Just Very Bad Thing?
- Simon Phipp’s Secrets of Dorastor and lines of books
- Our episode on Arkat, with guest Bud from Bud’s RPG Review
- The big-ass Genertela map
- Austin is supposedly being “very polite” in Ludo’s game about NOT becoming an assassin. Spoiler: a month later, Austin did in fact murder a long-standing NPC and initiated into the Eurmal Murderer cult…
- Wesley Crusher
- Ragnar Lodbrok and the TV show “Vikings”
- The Orlanthi as Vikings vs the Orlanthi as ancient Greeks
- Want to make your players go on a quest? Loan them magical items!
- The Lightbringers Summons and forcing it on your players
- Chaos as organized crime
- Mallia and pandemics… too soon, Joerg!
- Shenanigans with disease spirits!
- Dealing with trickster player characters…
- Scorpion Men: the other iconic Gloranthan bad guys?
- Beer With Teeth’s Stone and Bone
- 13th Age Glorantha‘s Scorpion Men illustrations
- Gagyx Two-Barb, Scorpion Queen
- The Footprint, another place of Chaos
- Food and water are tainted! Roll to find safe things to consume, or pack them!
- Making your own funky diseases
- Using the table of troll drink effects from Trollpak (RQ2, 1982)
- Differences in Chaos curses between RQ2 and RQG
- Paranoia in players, and nasty Chaotic features
- Xenohealing, the spell nobody misses, apparently
- Hashtag Not All Chaos!
- Adapting a combat scene environment to the baddies’ abilities… For instance: Scorpion Men can climb very well!
- Austin’s correct answer to Scorpion Men is “don’t”
- Milking Scorpion Men…. uugggh
- The players are always the baddies!
Credits
The intro music is “The Warbird” by Try-Tachion. Other music includes “Cinder and Smoke” and “Skyspeak“, along with audio from the FreeSound library.
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