Noirfatale

ok, the magic system is great and the rest of the books gives many thing I have come to expect and like in my rpg - a system to do something in between adventure, a well balance economic system ect... the line between runes, spirit and sorcery is still blurry in my mind but that's ok for now, I wont play anytime soon I am more interested in the setting and world building and the mythos for now. Still it is a very important part of the setting. EVERYONE has magic. Gods are real, mythology and runes are the foundation of this universe so leave your science at the door and go on. Still everything makes senses and the inner logic is sound and looks solid. There is so much to explore... its overwhelming. anyway, I got the sourcebook over drivetrhurpg. I am diving in the book now, If I get lost please send a shaman to save me. Wish me Godspeed.

Ok. As I stated before I played runequest before -the French version from Oriflamme, I never read it so I don't know but the game felt a lot more like heroic fantasy with d100 rules. The world I find in the RP in Gloratha is soo much different! very dense, deep and mythological. I usually eat a 400 page rpg in a day or two but this one is like this fantastic cheese cake so tasty but hits the bottom of your stomach like a brick. I find that I need to take it slowly and in small bites, going back in forth with some browsing on various wiki to read the names. I noticed the use of capital letter for some common words that are used in a mythic way. time and Time are used in a very specific way. There is the regular time, Time and God Time and since French is my native language there are place were its a bit confusing. So I need to read some part and look at the context were it is used, look up on a wiki and I realized that the background part of the book have to be read like a philosophical text - slowly with intent. You cant just read - you have to dive and immerse yourself and and it burns my energy much faster. It is fascinating and very rewarding but require a lot more attention and focus that the usual book. I can see why many people might find this very daunting. Also you get a fluff part, then a crunchy chapter, then another fluff chapter then back with rules and systems ... most rpg pack their rule in one half and the background and worldbuilding in the other. its odd but I like it. It might (will probably) make thing a bit harder in actual play when you must do some page flipping judo to find something on the fly when you play but its does help the first read I think. anyway, I just got through the combat chapter (phalanx combat wow really cool) and into the magic we go!

ok ! back from another dip in the main book. the mythologocal part is deep and mysterious as any greek mythos I have read in philosophy class. I expected that much. Then I got into the character creation - being a veteran role player and having played the old french version of runequest (the boxed set) some call of chtulhu and stormbringer I got no big problem there. my biggest hurdle was to figure that the G in the fillable character sheet in the aunt uncle sibling section stands for gender (Ha! after 2 hour of searching in the book and finally looking at the non fillable sheet to see a clear F and M instead of the G gave me a big facepalm moment) but then at page 99 - homeland section things got difficult- the map in my book is incredibly hard to read, I was trying to wrap my head around the geography of the dragon pass and I had to look online until I found a better (less pretty but more fonctional ) map. Maybe just a less detailed map (this is the map I found online that helped me the most) . while very good looking the map in the book is simply not the most easily readable. the rivers are not clearly identified but by the description I figured were the two main rivers are. so far so good, the journey continue...

thank you for all the responses! I am new here so I am still limited in the number of post! It tells me I will need the Glorentha - the sourcebook or the guide I don't know witch one I will get first. back to reading the core book!

Hello, I just started to read Runequest roleplaying in Glorantha. P18 : is there a explanation why? considering that Orlanth and the other lightbringers had to ressurect the sun god to save the world. Just curious if there is more on this - I only own the first book (for now). Thanks!