Syssiah Posted May 14, 2022 Share Posted May 14, 2022 Heya ! With some friends, we get our hands on the Olllld edition of Runequest III and a bunch of additional books (Dorastor, Trolls, etc) for french edition. We want to start the game as a journey to this so spiritual and antic fantasy world, and make it vibrant with life. So I'm proposing them to make them explore the world, with young characters, and one among them is a Rinkori hsunchen primitive. I decided t make him start in Brolia, and I wondered if you'd have : 1- advises or readings to do, so I could make him feel as much as possible what it's like to be a primitive tribe, with a leading chaman. 2- How to make such a character be willing to quit his tribe so he could join a party of more "civilized" adventurers. *** Also on a personal level, I'd be interested in joining a pbem, pbp, or such RQ game, so I can get my own fun as a player. If any of you know where I can look at. Regards 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soltakss Posted May 14, 2022 Share Posted May 14, 2022 1 hour ago, Syssiah said: With some friends, we get our hands on the Olllld edition of Runequest III and a bunch of additional books (Dorastor, Trolls, etc) for french edition. If you like the game and can afford a new supplement, I would recommend buying the PDF of the new RuneQuest, it is even better than RQ3. Or, download the free Quickstart rules. 1 hour ago, Syssiah said: We want to start the game as a journey to this so spiritual and antic fantasy world, and make it vibrant with life. So I'm proposing them to make them explore the world, with young characters, and one among them is a Rinkori hsunchen primitive. I decided t make him start in Brolia, and I wondered if you'd have : There is not much about Brolia, except what is in the Guide to Glorantha. 1 hour ago, Syssiah said: 1- advises or readings to do, so I could make him feel as much as possible what it's like to be a primitive tribe, with a leading chaman. There are some Voices documents, "What my [] told me" on the Well of Daliath. The Hsunchen ones would be useful, I think. Aside from that, the only articles on how such people think are in web discussions or in old fanzines that are difficult to buy. 1 hour ago, Syssiah said: 2- How to make such a character be willing to quit his tribe so he could join a party of more "civilized" adventurers. That can be easy. I wanted to see more of the world My tribe sends its young out into the world to experience how bad it is, so that we are thankful of our people when we return Raiders killed my family and I am hunting them I saw warriors covered with metal and they looked so shiny and nice that I had to see where they came from The Spirits gave me a mission/quest We each reached into a bag and took out a token, I must do what my token says I must return with a peacock feather to impress my intended mate 1 Quote Simon Phipp - Caldmore Chameleon - Wallowing in my elitism since 1982. Many Systems, One Family. Just a fanboy. www.soltakss.com/index.html Jonstown Compendium author. Find my contributions here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soltakss Posted May 14, 2022 Share Posted May 14, 2022 1 hour ago, Syssiah said: Also on a personal level, I'd be interested in joining a pbem, pbp, or such RQ game, so I can get my own fun as a player. If any of you know where I can look at. There are Facebook Groups that can help. Look at the Glorantha Fans or RuneQuest Groups. Quote Simon Phipp - Caldmore Chameleon - Wallowing in my elitism since 1982. Many Systems, One Family. Just a fanboy. www.soltakss.com/index.html Jonstown Compendium author. Find my contributions here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Syssiah Posted May 14, 2022 Author Share Posted May 14, 2022 Thanks alot for the help soltakss. 🙂 Also, I realized as I'm working on the tribe, that I have no idea on what sort of names the members of a rinkori hsunchen tribe should sound like. Any pointers so I can populate a handy list please ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
French Desperate WindChild Posted May 16, 2022 Share Posted May 16, 2022 bienvenue dans ce monde merveilleux ! @soltakss gave you a lot of nice "positive" reasons to leave the land however the player may choose "negative" reasons : bad omens, the spirits told your shaman that you are cursed. The clan decides to ban you (for ever or not). You don't understand what was wrong but you are now alone. crime, someone was murdered in your clan. The leaders consider you are the murderer. Hunter, you are now the prey (you may be the true criminal or not) you killed someone in another clan (accident ? skirmish ? ...), for good or bad reason. In all cases your leaders want peace, they accept the other clan will hunt you, but they give you some advices / gears however remember that hunshen are not human, they are beasts. Human are weird or cursed or what you want but not good animals, they don't understand what are the true way of life. Loving (physically) a human is probably not acceptable for a beast, but you could gain human friends. After all the most powerful beast is Harreck and he has a lot of friends A hunshen character may decide if (s)he is now human or still beast (some roleplay perspective). It may change some points (if you are not a beast anymore, you cannot call your ancestor magic, you cannot transform yourself, etc...) note that when I say beast or human, I'm not considering the shape/body, but the mindset and the character's perspective. Same for "decide" : you don't change your nature, you decide to turn your backs on it. for the names, as I don't speak the beast language, I manage to use descriptive names (broken tusks, big belly, burrower, red fang, spring horn, yellow submarine...) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Syssiah Posted May 16, 2022 Author Share Posted May 16, 2022 Merci pour ces idées et cette aide 🙂 Je prends tout cela avec plaisir. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
svensson Posted May 16, 2022 Share Posted May 16, 2022 Firstly, WELCOME! to the world of RQ and Glorantha! It's always nice to 'see' a new face. It should not be difficult to find reasons for a Hsunchen primitive to travel into 'civilization'. Just a couple that come to mind: - The PCs hire on as hunters for a caravan in exchange for metal weapons or other goods the tribe needs. - The PCs are captured by slavers and must escape and find their way home. - The PCs find a wounded person and care for them over a winter and that person invites them to visit their people. A good resource for seeing how primitives and more civilized cultures interact is Griffin Mountain for RQ2 or Griffin Island for RQ3. WARNING: Griffin Island isn't really 'Glorantha'. It took material from Griffin Mountain and made it more generic, with fewer Gloranthan elements. They can easily be converted back to the Glorantha mainstream though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Syssiah Posted May 16, 2022 Author Share Posted May 16, 2022 Thanks aswell svensson sir ! 🙂 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Brooke Posted May 16, 2022 Share Posted May 16, 2022 Everyday primitive life (low magic version): the "Chronicles of Ancient Darkness" kids' books by Michelle Paver are dead good. First book is "Wolf Brother."https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolf_Brother 1 Quote Community Ambassador - Jonstown Compendium, Chaosium, Inc. Email: nick.brooke@chaosium.com for community content queries Jonstown Compendium ⧖ Facebook Ф Twitter † old website Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Syssiah Posted May 16, 2022 Author Share Posted May 16, 2022 AH nice ! Thanks Nick 🙂 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soltakss Posted May 16, 2022 Share Posted May 16, 2022 3 hours ago, Nick Brooke said: Everyday primitive life (low magic version): the "Chronicles of Ancient Darkness" kids' books by Michelle Paver are dead good. First book is "Wolf Brother."https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolf_Brother Those are really good, perhaps even better that Jean M Auel's series, certainly more approachable. Quote Simon Phipp - Caldmore Chameleon - Wallowing in my elitism since 1982. Many Systems, One Family. Just a fanboy. www.soltakss.com/index.html Jonstown Compendium author. Find my contributions here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob Darvall Posted May 19, 2022 Share Posted May 19, 2022 On 5/14/2022 at 6:17 PM, Syssiah said: Heya ! With some friends, we get our hands on the Olllld edition of Runequest III and a bunch of additional books (Dorastor, Trolls, etc) for french edition. We want to start the game as a journey to this so spiritual and antic fantasy world, and make it vibrant with life. So I'm proposing them to make them explore the world, with young characters, and one among them is a Rinkori hsunchen primitive. I decided t make him start in Brolia, and I wondered if you'd have : 2- How to make such a character be willing to quit his tribe so he could join a party of more "civilized" adventurers. ** My hunter chatacter failed to use Peaceful Cut on an enemy he'd killed using hunting skills. The GM/god geased him to live in town for a year as penance. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Syssiah Posted May 19, 2022 Author Share Posted May 19, 2022 Thanks Rob for this funny idea too Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oldskolgmr Posted May 26, 2022 Share Posted May 26, 2022 On 5/14/2022 at 1:17 AM, Syssiah said: Also on a personal level, I'd be interested in joining a pbem, pbp, or such RQ game, so I can get my own fun as a player. If any of you know where I can look at. Hello there from another new person. This was written by another poster, good advice. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Akhôrahil Posted May 27, 2022 Share Posted May 27, 2022 This is probably the largest (non-canonical) description of Brolia:https://www.pensee.com/dunham/glorantha/brolia.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Syssiah Posted May 27, 2022 Author Share Posted May 27, 2022 thanks Badder and Akhôrahil 🙂 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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