Episode 34: The Reminiscences of Paulis Longvale (Part 1)

After too long a hiatus, we are finally back! Well, almost, because Ludo is an idiot and got the time zones wrong while setting up the recording, so Joerg shows up a bit later. Ludo apologizes for messing that up but hey, this is an episode about Chaos, so…

Our Guest

We welcome once again Austin Conrad to the show!

• His website is Akhelas
• Get Treasures of Glorantha: Volume 2, one of the finest books on the Jonstown Compendium!
  • We actually talked about that book, and magical items in general, for episode 31
• Austin’s ghost was summoned during our more recent episode on RuneQuest house rules

Show Notes

In this episode we chat about things like:

• Cult of Terror (RQ2, 1981)
  • You can get it as a POD reprint or in PDF from Chaosium
• Dorastor: Land of Doom (RQ3, 1993)
• The Cults of Runequest sourcebooks (available here from Chaosium)
• Shadows on the Borderlands (RQ3, 1993)
• The first time the Gloranthan cosmology and history is presented in one text
• Worshipping Mallia as a non-Chaos deity, in a propitiatory way
• King of Dragon Pass
• RuneQuest Warlords
• Razalkark, the King of the Broos, and a “good boy”
• Cults of Prax (RQ2, 1979) and the tribulations of Biturian Varosh
  • Our episode series on Biturian Varosh started back when we were the “Wind Words” podcast, and continued with guest Drew Baker early in the God Learners podcast
• The four philosophies and magic forms of Glorantha… plus a few more! Add you own!
• The usual suspects: the Guide to Glorantha, the Glorantha Sourcebook, and the Mythology book
• The entire cosmology and history of Glorantha in 10 pages! Boom! Done!
• Ludo’s favourite RuneQuest cover, by Jennell Jaquays (see the real wrap-around version!)
• A Gloranthan pronunciation guide! Can YOU pronounce Gloranthan deities’ names correctly?
• The Prosopaedia
• The Curse of Thed: it really sucks!
  • Ludo got confused by his notes (“confusing notes” is a Chaotic feature!)
  • “Reverse Chaos” was renamed “Curse of Thed” in RQG
• Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay features chaos corruption rules that affect the player characters, sometimes willingly
• We should be playing in Bilini and Dorastor, there’s a lot of fun stuff happening there!
• Is it Chaos, or Just Very Bad Thing?
• Simon Phipp’s Secrets of Dorastor and lines of books
• Our episode on Arkat, with guest Bud from Bud’s RPG Review
• The big-ass Genertela map
• Austin is supposedly being “very polite” in Ludo’s game about NOT becoming an assassin. Spoiler: a month later, Austin did in fact murder a long-standing NPC and initiated into the Eurmal Murderer cult…
• Wesley Crusher
• Ragnar Lodbrok and the TV show “Vikings”
• The Orlanthi as Vikings vs the Orlanthi as ancient Greeks
• Want to make your players go on a quest? Loan them magical items!
• The Lightbringers Summons and forcing it on your players
• Chaos as organized crime
• Mallia and pandemics… too soon, Joerg!
• Shenanigans with disease spirits!
• Dealing with trickster player characters…
• Scorpion Men: the other iconic Gloranthan bad guys?
• Beer With Teeth’s Stone and Bone
• 13th Age Glorantha‘s Scorpion Men illustrations
• Gagyx Two-Barb, Scorpion Queen
• The Footprint, another place of Chaos
• Food and water are tainted! Roll to find safe things to consume, or pack them!
• Making your own funky diseases
• Using the table of troll drink effects from Trollpak (RQ2, 1982)
• Differences in Chaos curses between RQ2 and RQG
• Paranoia in players, and nasty Chaotic features
• Xenohealing, the spell nobody misses, apparently
• Hashtag Not All Chaos!
• Adapting a combat scene environment to the baddies’ abilities… For instance: Scorpion Men can climb very well!
• Austin’s correct answer to Scorpion Men is “don’t”
• Milking Scorpion Men…. uugggh
• The players are always the baddies!

Credits

The intro music is “The Warbird” by Try-Tachion. Other music includes “Cinder and Smoke” and “Skyspeak“, along with audio from the FreeSound library.