A beginners guide to Glorantha..

[Mordante]

I was wondering if there's anything like a beginners guide to Glorantha something that was only a few pages long that might explain the game universe so a new player could have a grip on tye crazy world that is Glorantha.

[Joerg]

The Well of Daliath has a few introductory pages, but those aren't exactly elevator pitches.

A couple of years ago I had a German language website attempting something like that, but what works in an interactive document (offering links and hovertexts) distributed over a number of pages doesn't work that well in print or as a static document. I definitely also over-ran the "only a few pages" worth of printed text, too, and I lost most of my work to hostile insertion of spam.

It is also a case of "know your audience" or their expectations for a fantasy setting. Comparisons with real world history or other fantasy settings matter only if the thing the setting is compared to matters to the audience.

And, since you are writing this in the RuneQuest forum, do you need this applied to the RuneQuest rpg compared to other rpgs?

But maybe a "pay what you want for a charity" product might be feasible for the Jonstown Compendium?

[Runeblogger]

The Glorantha booklet in the Starter Set is what you are looking for:

https://elruneblog.blogspot.com/2022/01/review-of-runequest-starter-set.html/

[Mordante]

I've got that and you're right it's very helpful it's just that I'm looking for something shorter as the player I've got in mind isn't into much "research"

[Brian Duguid]

I think this might be what you want:

• https://rqwiki.chaosium.com/glorantha/

If that's too long, then just tell them to stop reading when they've had enough, or direct them to the pages you think are most helpful.

Edited November 4, 2022 by Brian Duguid

[Mordante]

Looks just the ticket ...thanks!