Episode 34: The Reminiscences of Paulis Longvale (Part 1)

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 VaroshOur 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.