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Chaosium Interviews: Improvising a Scenario, with Jeff Richard
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 9th Oct 2023
Your players arrive in one hour. What do you need to know to run a RuneQuest scenario?Chaosium's Jeff Richard shares some advice on how to quickly build a beginner RuneQuest scenario. He's talking to James Coquillat for our 'Chaosium Interviews' series on YouTube.
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RuneQuest community creators win at the 2023 Australian Role-Playing Industry Awards
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 5th Oct 2023
Congratulations to community creators Neil Gibson and Drew Baker, whose Jonstown Compendium RuneQuest title Highways and Byways - A Wayfarer's Companion won Best Cartography at this year's Australian Role-Playing Industry (ARPIA) Awards! Neil is shown here with their award. And c
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Journey to Jonstown #62: Ships & Shores of Southern Genertela is a feast for your eyes
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 9th Sep 2023
"The lines have been cast off, the crew have pushed away from the quay with fending poles, and the sweeps are deployed until we catch the breeze...." Martin Helsdon's magnificent and magisterial Ships & Shores of Southern Genertela has just been released on the Jonstown Compendium.Winner o
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Journey to Jonstown #61: Old Pavis, the City that Time Forgot
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 4th Sep 2023
The city of Pavis, located on the fabled River of Cradles, is one of the RuneQuest TTRPG's oldest and most iconic settings. Explore it further with community content at the Jonstown Compendium!Old Pavis: The City that Time ForgotIan A. Thomson & Friends, including Peter Johanssen, R.
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Journey to Jonstown #60: Explore Furthest, the Crown Jewel of Lunar Tarsh!
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 30th Aug 2023
Simon Bray's evocative artwork is familiar to RuneQuest, HeroQuest and Glorantha fans, appearing in such works as the Guide to Glorantha and Glorantha Sourcebook, and stretching all the way back through the Moon Design Publications era to that of the Reaching Moon Megacorp's fabled fanzine
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Chaosium Unveiled: The Prosopaedia
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 25th Aug 2023
Chaosium Unveiled takes a look at The Prosopaedia, the first book in the Cults of RuneQuest series. Described as "the single most comprehensive survey of Glorantha's rich mythology that we have ever seen" (Andrew Logan Montgomery),The Prosopaedia is available now in full color hardback and
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Journey to Jonstown #59: Nochet, Queen of Cities, and other new releases
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 25th Aug 2023
Harald's Smith's Nochet: Queen of Cities opens up Glorantha's greatest city for play and exploration! A DriveThruRPG site bestseller, see why reviewers call this independently-created release is "a supplement many fans have been waiting decades for." And check out other new community conte
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Out of the Suitcase #43: An unexpected magazine ad - part II...
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 22nd Aug 2023
Chaosium President Rick Meints shares stories from a life-time as a collector of all things Chaosium.In my previous Out of the Suitcase post, thought I'd written the complete story of that "one off" Glorantha ad from the Best of the Dragon - volume I (1980). However a Chaosium colleague, t
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