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The Six Paths
Publisher: Chaosium
by Greta G. [Verified Purchaser]
Date Added: 05/12/2022 18:27:15

Full disclosure: I am credited as a sensitivity reader on this book.

The Six Paths goes a long way towards opening up the space of possibilities implied by the six genders enumerated in the Runequest core book, and does so in a very charming and delightful way that's truly beautifully illustrated.



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A History of Malkionism
Publisher: Chaosium
by Greta G. [Verified Purchaser]
Date Added: 12/07/2021 07:28:56

The text is freely available, so in a sense this is primarily for the art and the physical layout of the text. And it's worth every penny (and more, but don't tell the author and artist I said that!) The illustrations are deep, funny, heartfelt, and, most beautifully of all, take the prior mediaeval European tinge of these parts of Glorantha and begin transforming it into something else entirely, something still clearly medieval in inspiration but exploring the limits of what a medieval European's understanding of the world could have produced. Heartily recommended.



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Black Spear (RuneQuest)
Publisher: Chaosium
by Greta G. [Verified Purchaser]
Date Added: 10/04/2021 11:18:14

Black Spear is a triumph. This adventure synthesizes together many of the more forbidding, obscure, or occultated aspects of Glorantha, a setting notorious for all three of those things, and does so in a way that's directly approachable, with the author explaining his reasoning as he goes, offering alternate pathways at each juncture. This takes the form of a symbolic journey through the ruins of older Gloranthan games and scenarios, right into the heart of darkness, all held together by a collage of cultural references- here a reference to first-person shooter video games and especially Half-Life, there a reference to classic folk horror, and over here is a reminder that classic cartoons have their place in Glorantha.

The overall result is something that I think could be run for a group of newbies or grizzled veterans of the Hero Wars with equal ease, something which allows players to engage in a bit of psychological role-play, and something that allows you to perform a lingual, or linguistic, or at any rate cunning act on a frog woman. (You can also have regular fights if you like, elsewhere in the adventure.) Strongly recommended.



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The Dregs of Clearwine
Publisher: Chaosium
by Greta G. [Verified Purchaser]
Date Added: 09/23/2021 18:20:26

If there is any setting for a fantasy role-playing game that benefits from a deep dive into a tiny section of a single, relatively small urban area, it is Glorantha. And Dregs of Clearwine is a fantastic book in that genre, because it allows you to construct your own webs of relationships between people for your own cities. Much like Gidlow's Citizens of the Lunar Empire, an essential product in my library.



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Citizens of the Lunar Empire
Publisher: Chaosium
by Greta G. [Verified Purchaser]
Date Added: 01/26/2021 07:13:37

I had a one-thousand word review that discussed this book in detail, with lots of jokes, and then DriveThruRPG ate it.

A condensed version:

This sourcebook educates the reader on what a city of antiquity would have been like to live in, oozes Gloranthan flavor, uses pop-culture references and the broad tropes of social realist fiction to make it easier to enter the interiority of the culture in question (the Lunar Empire), delivers strongly on expanding the scope of Glorantha in concrete ways to match Greg Stafford's offhand comments, has some very good jokes, takes a unique tack in analyzing the characters through the lens of labor and work, and has honest-to-god themes going on in it, which actively comment on the source material.

It also communicates important truths about the setting, but to quote Leonard Cohen, "You don't really care about that, do you?"

Nearly universally useful for Gloranthan gaming, useful outside of Glorantha as well.



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The Duel at Dangerford
Publisher: Chaosium
by Greta G. [Verified Purchaser]
Date Added: 01/19/2021 06:41:59

There's not much I can say which has not already been said. This is perhaps the platonic ideal of a standalone adventure for a role-playing game: it works as a convention/one-shot scenario, it works to kick off a campaign, it works as the closer or coda to a campaign, and it works as a scenario in the middle of a campaign.

In addition, it offers a straightforward tutorial in the process of creating one's own adventures, and on top of all this, it offers a way to put characters into the (semi-notoriously) involved, deep, etc. setting of Glorantha that begins with a scenario from all kinds of pop and high culture and then beckons players further on into exploring the mysteries and nooks and crannies of the setting.

And it's only four bucks and a pleasure to read in the bargain!



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