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Jan 15, 2023 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
Apropos of nothing🤔, here’s a parable from legendary game designer Greg Stafford:
Back in 1966, Greg first started creating #Glorantha, future setting of the #RuneQuest TTRPG. He began by describing the west coast of the northern continent.
Wizards lived there, on the coast...
Greg describes how these wizards built up a great empire and, using ruthless means, tried to consolidate all of the stories and myths of the world into a great unified whole under their control.
(Yes, you could say these wizards “Gathered together all the Magic”.)
Nov 8, 2021 • 20 tweets • 8 min read
The Chaosium, a 🧵
The Chaosium was founded by visionary game designer Greg Stafford in 1975.
In 2016 Greg Stafford's world of Glorantha celebrated its 50th anniversary. In 2018, it was 40 years since the debut of RuneQuest, and 2021 is the 40th anniversary of Call of Cthulhu.
Said Greg about his company: "The first published RPG was Dungeons & Dragons, shortly followed by some other imitative games. Chaosium, however, was never content to imitate...
Nov 8, 2021 • 6 tweets • 5 min read
In this new instalment of 'Journey to Jonstown' we look at THE GOD SKIN & MAD PRAX, the fourth and final volume in Jon Webb's bestselling 'Sandheart' series of RuneQuest adventures set in Sun County @DriveThruRPG chaosium.com/blogjourney-to… #runequest#glorantha#rpg#ttrpg
The book features the scenarios 'The God Skin' by Sandheart creator Jon Webb, and 'Mad Prax: Beyond Sun Dome' by Chaosium's Michael O'Brien, author of the original #RuneQuest 3rd Ed release Sun County (1992).