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The table clearly indicates that if I want to create a Runequest Glorantha scenario, I can publish it through Jonstown Compendium. I just can't figure out what the other line means. If I set a game in Glorantha to play with friends, using whatever mechanisms I want, well, I don't need JC or any publishing tool. If I create a game of my own, set in Glorantha, I can't publish it through Jonstown Compendium, since it's against the JC restrictions. I guess that line in the table is just wrong and there's nothing here to wonder.

Thanks to all of you for the answers, both clear and complete. I was misled by this line :

Hi there, Both Chaosium's Questworld SRD page and BRP SRD page indicate under "I want to set a game in Glorantha" : check with Jonstown Compendium. Does it mean it is possible to propose a Gloranthan TTRPG distinct from RQ or QW ? Jonstown Compendium's rules seemed to tell the opposite (material for RQ, 13G and QW only). Can anyone help me figure out what is actually possible ? Thx 🙂

What struck me when I discovered RQ3 was the Culture distinction, and how it affected occupation and character creation, and the magic you could use. It was something really new for the young player that I was. And also my first contact with RuneQuest after years of reading enthusiastic reviews by magazines contributors. To be honest, the game I discovered was disappointing. Class-less system and realism were not a new thing anymore, and the fantasy-earth setting was not really inspiring. Stormbringer soon came as a simpler and more direct way to play fantasy role playing with BRP rules. It took me more than 15 years to give Glorantha another chance with HeroWars.

YGWV, I like to include the Yelmalio / Elmal issue in my Glorantha. First as a reference to the Yelmalio / Elmal discussions in the fanbase. Scholars and officials confirm Yelmalio and Elmal being the same deity and encourage the use of the name Yelmalio, minimizing the specificities of Elmal. Meanwhile, in rural clans, aging grumpy grognards still maintain stubbornly the traditions of Elmal as Orlanth's thane. Elmal is the god that protected them in the darkest moments, while Orlanth was away. Elmal/Yelmalio as husband-protector of Ernalda introduces an interesting love triangle between the king, the queen and the fidel thane. Quite a powerful myth 🙂 By heroquesting in Yelmalian myth, the PC may have opportunities to help reviving Elmal's particularities (or to extinguish them of course). Which will have repercussions on negociations between the whole Yelmalio cult and the Orlanth-rex nobility of independant Sartar.