What is Your Favorite Glorantha?

Yep, I'm also of the RQ2 and 90s RQ3 flavour of pie. I was put off by the brief cult descriptions in RQ3 at first, but in practice I've found it really makes no difference to my games. I mean, how often do you look at those long cult histories and mythologies after your first read-through?

[TRose]

So who wants to go over to Thunderbreath's for a trollkin Burger and side order of roof rats? I personally like the batter fried pixies.

[Rurik]

Originally Posted by TRose

So who wants to go over to Thunderbreath's for a trollkin Burger and side order of roof rats? I personally like the batter fried pixies.

I'll take a double with extra fleas.

Very Rare. It isn't the same if they don't struggle and scream.

[jarulf]

Originally Posted by Rurik

Very Rare. It isn't the same if they don't struggle and scream.

Interesting fleas :-) So, who wants to stat them?

[Newt]

I've played enough RQ3 back in the 90s to appreciate its weaknesses for me personally, higher level characters became to much of an exercise in number crunching.

Same with HQ, seven years of gazing into the Abyss that is the numerous details of various cults and the ever expanding background made my head spin!!

Not convienced by MRQ's take yet, but its early days yet and to be fair I've not read all the books (even the core of Glorantha 2nd Age, Cults 1&2 and Magic of Glorantha) in enough depth.

So if I was to play Glorantha these days I would play it out of the box with RQ2 and the Gloranthan Classics

Or I'ld be a Heretic and use the following systems for the following games

Unknown Armies: Lunar Empire, the pcs are members of the lunar cults jostling for immortality and power, risking insanity and all the other wonderful personality disorders that UA's Madness Meters encourage.

Savage Worlds: Rumble the Rubble (Pavis) . Fast furious fun as Orlanthi rebels take on the might of the Lunar Empire!

Burning Wheel: Sun Dome County. BW would nicely support the intense character driven pace that parts of the Sun Dome County write up suggest.

[Triff]

I've been very happy with RQ3 for a very long time now, but feel the time have come to move on. I bought a lot of HQ books to convert to RQ, but teh "new" Glorantha have been gregged to being recognition for me. 2nd Age sounds fun, but I will probably never get into it as I've stopped buying more Mongoose books.

SGL.

[Darran]

I do like the new Gloranthan books for HeroQuest.
Storm Tribe, Thunder Rebels, and Lunar Imperial Handbooks are just fantastic.
Gives me much more to work with in play than any other books before or since.

[TRose]

How adaptable are the HQ books for those of us that play BRP or
Runequest. I been thinking of putting them on my list to buy.

[soltakss]

The HQ Books are very adaptable to BRP/RQ.

Books such as Storm Tribe/Thunder Rebels/Imperial Lunar Handbooks/Sons of Kargzant/Blood Over Gold/Wintertop's Shadow have a lot of background material with Homelands and Cult writeups.

Homelands are character backgrounds, giving skills and professions available to people from those Homelands. Cult writeups are generally very sketchy with very little background or flavour but describe the spells that a cult gets. I use the HQ format when I am prototyping a cult - I write it up in HQ format then flesh the spells and skills out for RQ.

You have to do a bit of work on the cults to use them in RQ/BRP, but it is not impossible. I'm currently working on adding the later HQ cults to my HW/HQ Cult Conversions and am planning to convert Homelands as well.

But, there's no reason why you can't take a HQ book and immediately start using it for BRP/RQ.

They are very Gloranthan, though, expect for Mythic Russia, of course. So, you'd have to use them with a lot of adaption outside Glorantha.

But, if you want new cults, new backgrounds and interesting scenarios then I'd recomment the HQ stuff.

[Rurik]

I've never been a HQ player (never got past HW) but I have bought a few HW/HQ books and they are very useful. Great background generally to a level of detail that exceeds any other Gloranthan publications. I have a few more on my 'to buy' list.