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Runic Rant: What Does YGWV Mean?

  • 2022-05-14

Runic Rants is an irregular series of thoughts, opinions, and experiments about RuneQuest. The titular question from the Fan Use and Licensing Q&A was highlighted in Chaosium’s blog this week, surprisingly enough. The post is…

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Ludovic
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Runic Rants: Detect Enemies

  • 2022-02-12

Runic Rants is an irregular series of thoughts, opinions, and experiments about RuneQuest. I’m recycling one of my old BRP forum posts for content but I think this is one of the good ones. It…

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Ludovic
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Runic Rants: Characteristic vs Skills

  • 2022-01-28

Runic Rants is an irregular series of thoughts, opinions, and experiments about RuneQuest. It’s kind of funny: BRP games like Call of Cthulhu or RuneQuest are among my all time favourite RPGs, but BRP itself…

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Ludovic
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Runic Rants: A History of the Glowline

  • 2021-12-16

Runic Rants is an irregular series of thoughts, opinions, and experiments about RuneQuest. Today I was nerd-sniped by a question on the BRP forums about the Glowline’s change from making it so that the Red…

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Ludovic
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Runic Rants: When You Don’t Know

  • 2021-12-03

Runic Rants is an irregular series of thoughts, opinions, and experiments about RuneQuest. Today’s Runic Rants column isn’t about RuneQuest rules, but about general gaming in Glorantha. There’s a lot of straightforward advice out there…

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Ludovic
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Runic Rants: Experience Checks (Part 3)

  • 2021-10-22

Runic Rants is an irregular series of thoughts, opinions, and experiments about RuneQuest. In the previous parts of this Runic Rants series, we looked at all the situations that give you an experience check, and…

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Ludovic
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Runic Rants: Experience Checks (part 2)

  • 2021-10-21

Runic Rants is an irregular series of thoughts, opinions, and experiments about RuneQuest. In the previous part of this Runic Rants series, we looked at all the situations in which an adventurer can get an…

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Ludovic
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Runic Rants: Experience Checks (Part 1)

  • 2021-10-16

Runic Rants is an irregular series of thoughts, opinions, and experiments about RuneQuest. RuneQuest Glorantha is one of those games that has many rules disseminated throughout their hefty rulebook. I often overlook or forget a…

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Ludovic
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Runic Rants: Opposed Rolls Ties

  • 2021-08-25

Opposed Rolls in RuneQuest are pretty simple. It takes only a couple paragraphs on page 142 of the rulebook to explain the process: the adventurer and opponent each make an ability roll and whoever achieved…

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Ludovic
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Runic Rants: Group Rolls

  • 2021-07-30
  • Tagged as: House Rules, RuneQuest

Runic Rants is an irregular series of thoughts, opinions, and experiments about RuneQuest. One of the most common skill rolls in a fantasy game are the ubiquitous “perception” and “stealth” rolls, respectively for spotting someone…

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Ludovic

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