Real earth Animals ......gloranthan Animals

[Godlearner]

33 minutes ago, Akhôrahil said:

I really hope there are tardigrades, especially giant ones.

If they are not giant, then what is the point?

[Godlearner]

On 9/10/2022 at 1:20 PM, Agentorange said:

Are there real earth animals which will never be ported across ? 

Maybe should never be ported across ?

I don't know, but then I ported Cicadas to RQG in a JC supplement.

[Baron Wulfraed]

11 hours ago, Godlearner said:

If they are not giant, then what is the point?

Given how small the base model is, a giant tardigrade would be the size of an ant...

 

[Godlearner]

5 minutes ago, Baron Wulfraed said:

Given how small the base model is, a giant tardigrade would be the size of an ant...

My ants are SIZ 2D6

[Squaredeal Sten]

It is interesting that the Glorantha Bestiary lists giant wasps, beetles, dragonflies   praying mantises, and bees - but not ants.  However it does list giant ant lions.  

I wonder: 

What do the giant ant lions live on?  Besides Adventurers.

Are ants intentionally omitted because an ant colony would be too tough to fight?  

[Joerg]

2 hours ago, Squaredeal Sten said:

It is interesting that the Glorantha Bestiary lists giant wasps, beetles, dragonflies   praying mantises, and bees - but not ants.  However it does list giant ant lions.  

I wonder: 

What do the giant ant lions live on?  Besides Adventurers.

Anything that happens to stray into its target funnel. Remember Tattooine, the location where Leia wore that bikini.

Herd beasts, even predators - think of the La Brae (sp?) tar pits and its costumers. A giant ant lion might use bait the same way.

 

2 hours ago, Squaredeal Sten said:

Are ants intentionally omitted because an ant colony would be too tough to fight?  

Anaxial's Roster has a story how the ants received a curse of shrinking upon their exodus from the Underworld, which is why giant ants are rare on the surface. No idea whether there is any canon about that, but it's a nice story, and who needs giant ants when you can have giant locusts. In swarming mode.

[David Scott]

On 9/23/2022 at 4:31 PM, Squaredeal Sten said:

Are ants intentionally omitted because an ant colony would be too tough to fight? 

Ants are intentionally omitted otherwise the bestiary would be a multi-volume purchase full of stuff that's of no use for adventures.

If you want giant ants, they are in the Gateway Bestiary, page 5, there' also an example of one in Griffin Mountain. The Gateway Bestiary also has rules for insect hive minds, soldier and worker ants.

You can find the contents of all the available bestiaries here: 

• RuneQuest Glorantha Bestiary (2019)
• Gateway Bestiary (1980, 2018)
• Anaxial’s Roster – Not Enough Room in the Ark (2004) (NOT RQ, but online)

Not available

• Gloranthan Bestiary (1988)
• Anaxial’s Roster (2000) (NOT RQ)
• MGP8135 Monsters II (2008)
• MGP8103 Monsters (2006)
• AH857 RuneQuest Deluxe Edition – Book 4 Index – Creatures Book (1985)
• Book 5 lists non-Gloranthan creatures in book 4 and Glorantha specific Chaos Creatures and Elder Races (without stats except for Dragonewts).

Edited September 25, 2022 by David Scott
corrected listing

[Oracle]

13 hours ago, David Scott said:

Ants are intentionally omitted otherwise the bestiary would be a multi-volume purchase full of stuff that's of no use for adventures.

If you want giant ants, they are in the Gateway Bestiary, page 5, there' also an example of one in Griffin Mountain. The Gateway Bestiary also has rules for insect hive minds, soldier and worker ants.

You can find the contents of all the available bestiaries here: 

• RuneQuest Glorantha Bestiary (2019)
• Gloranthan Bestiary (1988)
• Gateway Bestiary (1980, 2018)
• Anaxial’s Roster – Not Enough Room in the Ark (2004) (NOT RQ, but online)

Not available

• Anaxial’s Roster (2000) (NOT RQ)
• MGP8135 Monsters II (2008)
• MGP8103 Monsters (2006)
• AH857 RuneQuest Deluxe Edition – Book 4 Index – Creatures Book (1985), Book 5 lists non-Gloranthan creatures in book 4.

As far as I know, the Gloranthan Bestiary (AH85711) is not available similar to the Creatures Book in the RuneQuest Deluxe Edition (AH857), or do I miss something here?

Also, in addition to the Creatures from Book 4 (Creatures) Book 5 (Glorantha Book) lists Glorantha specific Chaos Creatures and Elder Races (without stats except for Dragonewts).