Glorantha Initiation: Scott, Novelizations, Baboons, and Too Many Cows

The God Learners

The new Initiation Series interview features Scott Rinehart, and was recorded back in October 2021. Scott is new to Glorantha, having only played in a couple of one-shot games, but he has flipped through the new RuneQuest slipcase books, and the Glorantha Sourcebook.

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• Rankin/Bass animated films “The Hobbit” and “The Return of the King“
• Dungeons & Dragons Basic Set (second “Moldvay” edition, 1981)
• RuneQuest 2 reprints, financed through a Kickstarter campaign
• Cubicle7’s The One Ring (which is now discontinued… the second edition is now with Free League)
• The Prince of Sartar webcomic
• King of Dragon Pass and Six Ages video games
• Empire of the Petal Throne and novels set in the world of Tekumel (see also the Tekumel Foundation)
• John E. Boyle’s Queen’s Heir, a Hittite fantasy novel originally supposed to be set in Glorantha
• The Griselda short stories set in Glorantha
• Cults of Prax and the travels of Biturian Varosh (which we started covering in our old podcast, and continued with the current podcast most recently here)
• The RuneQuest Quickstart, including the adventure “The Broken Tower”
• Lou Zocchi’s rant about dice manufacturing
• The Grognard Files podcast
• Elfquest, and the Elfquest RPG