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Sun County Militia SANDHEART VOLUME ONE a SCENARIO for RUNEQUEST: ROLEPLAYING in GLORANTHA Tales of The sun CounTy MiliTia SANDHEART VOLUME ONE A SCENARIO FOR RUNEQUEST: ROLEPLAYING IN GLORANTHA Sample file II Tales of The sun CounTy MiliTia SANDHEART VOLUME ONE Author: Jonathan Webb with Nick Brooke, Darren Page-Mitchell & Shaun Rimmer Cover Artist: Jacob Webb Interior Artists: Mark Baldwin, Ludovic Chabant & Kris Herbert Cartographers: Jonathan Webb, Madaleine Girvan, Ollie Larwood, Ludovic Chabant & Nick Brooke Design & Layout: Nick Brooke Playtesters: Graham Brown, Joshua Hill, Shaun Rimmer, James Stanley, Jacob Webb & Harrison Webb RuneQuest is a Trademark of Moon Design Publications and is used with their permission via the OBS Community Content program. For more information please visit Chaosium’s website: www.chaosium.com SampleThe Chaosium and RuneQuest Logos are used under license. file Sun County Militia v2.00 24 August 2020 III CREDITS, COPYRIGHTS & ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS AUTHORS Sandheart Volume 1: Tales of the Sun County Militia is copyright © 2020 by Jonathan Webb. • The Pole Star & Ronance Spirit Cult writeups on page 12 are adapted from Tales of the Reaching Moon #14 & #15 (1996) and are copyright © 2020 by Moon Design Publications, used with permission. • New Sandheart Militia Stats on pages 36-43 are copyright © 2020 by Darren Page-Mitchell. • Tedious Tasks on page 44-47 are copyright © 2020 by Jonathan Webb and Shaun Rimmer. • Sun County Backgrounds on page 78-96 are copyright © 2020 by Nick Brooke. ARTISTS Cover artwork (Sun County Militia, Sandheart) is copyright © 2020 by Jacob Webb. Interior artwork is copyright © 2020 by Mark Baldwin, other than the following pieces: • The Five Plinths (page 9) and the four Praxian Stand-off illustrations (pages page 60-page 63) are copyright © 2020 by Ludovic Chabant. • View of Sandheart (page 11) and View of Farborough (page 67) are copyright © 2020 by Kris Herbert of the Beer With Teeth collective. CARTOGRAPHERS Cartography is copyright © 2020 by Jonathan Webb, other than the following maps: • Sun County (pages 3 & 49) is copyright © 2020 by Moon Design Publications, used with permission. • Sandheart Hamlet (page 10) is copyright © 2020 by Madaleine Girvan. • Farborough (page 66) is copyright © 2020 by Ollie Larwood. • The River Settlements & Fishlaunch (pages 72-74) are copyright © 2020 by Ludovic Chabant. • Sandheart District (page 75) was reworked in Wonderdraft by Nick Brooke and is copyright © 2020 by Jonathan Webb. Buildings are from the “Arabia” pack drawn by Chan (/u/quachyourback) and included in Wonderdraft. SPECIAL THANKS TO • Nick Brooke and Mark Baldwin, my ‘virtual shield-brothers’ in this endeavour. • Michael O’Brien for support and enthusiasm. • The Jonstown Compendium Creators Circle for all the support, hints and tips. • Diana Probst, Austin Conrad and Shaun Rimmer for their valuable comments. • Steven Watson and Beverley Webb for proof-reading. • Chaosium for kind permission to reproduce a map from Sun County and the Pole Star & Ronance Spirit Cult write-ups. • Alyson Shorthouse and Haydn Pearson for their contributions to the first edition of Sandheart Volume SampleOne: Tales of the Sun County Militia. file IV TABLE OF CONTENTS Welcome to Sandheart ...........................................................................................................................1 Your Glorantha Will Vary ...............................................................................................................................1 History of Sandheart .......................................................................................................................................2 Settlements and Farming in Sandheart District ..........................................................................................4 The Hamlet of Sandheart ................................................................................................................................8 The Magic of the Plinths .................................................................................................................................9 Map and View of Sandheart ................................................................................................................10 People of Interest in Sandheart ....................................................................................................................14 The Sandheart Militia ....................................................................................................................................20 Sandheart Militia Stats ..................................................................................................................................24 Tedious Tasks ..................................................................................................................................................44 No Country for Cold Men ....................................................................................................................48 The Dolphins’ Drug Racket in Sun County ................................................................................................48 Militia Introduction: Praxian Stand-off ......................................................................................................50 Farborough .....................................................................................................................................................53 Stablefort .........................................................................................................................................................54 The River Settlements ....................................................................................................................................55 Conclusion: A Small Victory in a Greater War ..........................................................................................58 No Country for Cold Men Stats .....................................................................................................60 Map and View of Farborough ..............................................................................................................70 Maps of the River Settlements & Fishlaunch.......................................................................................72 Map of Sandheart District ................................................................................................................ 75 Handout: The Sandheart Gazetteer .....................................................................................................76 Sun County Backgrounds ....................................................................................................................78 Your Grandparent’s History ............................................................................................................................79 Your Parent’s History........................................................................................................................................91 Initiation ............................................................................................................................................................92 Red Moon in Prax ............................................................................................................................................94 Solanthos’Sample Coup ................................................................................................................................................ file95 V FOREWORD Back in 1990 when I sent my unsolicited Sun County Now, 30 years on (with much water under the manuscript to Avalon Hill, it was out of a sense of bridge) we’re in an all-new RuneQuest Renaissance. frustration. After the truly brilliant releases for Chaosium is back with a brilliant new edition, RuneQuest’s second edition – Pavis, Big Rubble, RuneQuest: Roleplaying in Glorantha, and an Borderlands, TrollPak, Griffin Mountain et al. equally brilliant line of new adventures, starting – the third edition had proven to be something with The Smoking Ruin and The Pegasus Plateau. of a disappointment for Glorantha fans. Sure, Even better, RQG is ably supported by a flourishing there had been lots of reprints, but precious little community of officially sanctioned creators. all-new material specific to Glorantha. In particular DriveThruRPG’s Jonstown Compendium gives there had been literally no new Glorantha-based independent Gloranthan creators access to a scenarios in the first eight years of the RQ3 line. worldwide audience in ways we didn’t even dream Sun County, and Avalon Hill’s new line editor, about back those early days. And I am delighted to Ken “the Rune Czar” Rolston, changed all that see that Sun County is once again at the forefront in a brief but brilliant period that became fondly of this new RuneQuest Renaissance, with Jon remembered as the “RuneQuest Renaissance.” Sun Webb’s wonderful Sandheart series of scenarios. County was followed by such notable releases as Jon contacted me out of the blue at the beginning River of Cradles, Shadows on the Borderlands, of last year. With the Jonstown Compendium Strangers in Prax, and Dorastor: Land of Doom. coming soon, he told me he was working on a set of But independent creation of Gloranthan material adventures set in Sun County. And he just happened back then had its challenges. Remember, this was to be visiting my home town of Melbourne, Australia. before the Internet. What Glorantha fans had then, So we took the opportunity to meet, and I was blown in the early
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