Hi all,
I'm currently heading into my fourth session of playing in Glorantha
with the Hero Wars rules.
I just wanted to say thank you.
I never played RuneQuest back in the day, so my introduction to the
setting was with the release of Hero Wars. I picked up the game, along
with Glorantha: Introduction to the Hero Wars, Thunder Rebels and Storm
Tribe and thought it was all terrific. A few months ago some friends
said, "Hey, we want you to run that Glorantha game you've been talking
about!"
So, I started hustling and grabbed the Lunar Handbooks, The Book of
Heortling Mythology, the Barbarian Adventures books, and Dragon Pass:
Land of Thunder.
We built a clan using the Clan Generation rules, came up with great
characters, and I have been hustling to dig through the material even as
we've played a few sessions. I might say it's all overwhelming (it is!)
and yet... I'm having such a blast!
Tonight I'm building the timeline of the clan's history built with the
Clan Generator, adding in details to the narrative along with glosses on
the gods so my players have more details to play around with. It's work
checking references and such (and thank goodness for the Glorantha
wiki!). But I'm having such a blast sewing together my own storytelling
instincts with the work others have already done. Really, I've been
working hard this year on many projects and this holiday season I'm
taking a nice vacation in a strange mix of
anthropologist/archeologist/storyteller as I sift through the material
and find the Glorantha is going to work for my Players and myself.
I know everyone has their own view on the relative value of the
different game lines. I'm just wanted to thank Greg and everyone who
worked on the books I've mentioned above. They're full of color and
detail and passion and life... and I'm having a terrific time even
before I sit down to play with my Players!
Thanks!Christopher
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