Hearts in Glorantha Issue 7

Hearts in Glorantha Issue Seven 10th Anniversary (July 2008-2018) Contents Editorial 3 By Newt Newport. Pavis Boxing Association 5 A RQ3 Herocult by Leon Kirshtein. How A Rubble Runner Destroyed the Crimson Bat at The Battle of Iceland 6 A short tale by Lev Lafayette and Erica Hoehn. Strange Broos 11 A very strange RuneQuest Classic encounter with scenario seeds by Scott Crowder. . Boatduck’s Lunch 15 Stewart Stansfield details what’s on the Duck menu. Snipbeak 16 A Duck with Lunar sympathies for RuneQuest Glorantha by Stewart Stansfield. Who Gets to Speak 18 Ian Cooper, Line Editor for HeroQuest, talks about what makes HeroQuest so unique among role-playing games. Orlanth, Heler and the Dragon 21 An Orlanthi Myth told by Stuart Mousir-Harrison. The Beard of Lhankor Mhy 23 An adventure for 13th Age Glorantha by Guy Milner. Heroic Tales 34 Two scenario seeds, each with three possibilities, by Newt Newport. TheSample Temple of the Golden Gorp file36 A short adventure for RuneQuest Classic by Newt Newport. Submissions 48 Do You want to Write or Draw for Hearts in Glorantha? Hearts in Glorantha

Credits Editor/Layout: Newt Newport. Proofing/Editorial: Steve Hammatt, Guy Milner, Stuart Mousir-Harrison. Cover: Stewart Stansfield. Art: Dan Barker, Peter Frain, Peter Town. Maps: Dyson Logos (page 38). Contributing Authors: Ian Cooper, Scott Crowder, Stuart Mousir-Harrison, Leon Kirshtein, Lev Lafayette and Erica Hoehn, Guy Milner, Newt Newport, Stuart Stansfield. With Thanks to Michael O’Brien at Chaosium. Sponsored by Patriot Games, Sheffield UK.

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2 Hearts in Glorantha Editorial By Newt Newport It seems like yesterday that I put together the first the result of me just using the reissued RuneQuest issue of HiG and only ten minutes ago since issue Classic rulebook, so there is a lot of mileage here. six, so to see issue seven so soon is a miracle I’m immensely grateful for. Thanks to all the contributors HeroQuest Glorantha. It seems strange that there’s who’ve helped me produce this issue in time for not a HQ adventure in this issue, since it was the Hearts in Gloranatha’s 10th anniversary. workhorse of the last ten years. On a personal level its time for a break but I’m sure that it will be back. HeroQuest does BIG DAMN HEROES/ Why Hearts in Glorantha? HEROINES like no other system on Earth. If you’ve not come across HeroQuest before, Ian Cooper Ten years ago, I sat down to read a twenty plus page current HeroQuest Line Editor at Chaosium goes thread on RPG.net, where an obvious sock puppet over what makes it so unique in his article Who Gets to calling himself Angry Argrath berated Moon Designs Speak (page 18). Publications, who had just taken over publishing Glorantha, and the existing fan publishers of not 13th Age Glorantha. Familiar with D&D? Particularly releasing enough material. After nearly making modern feat based D20? Well, this is your stop. myself late for work (thank god for flex-time), I Mixing the narrative-driven 13th Age rules and a fair resolved to do something. Since even though I had bit of rules tinkering to make it more palatable to us other publishing ambitions, I realised that Glorantha established Gloranthan fans. Of all the four rulesets had a firm place in my gaming affections. Hence perhaps, it’s the most accessible and directed. From the title Hearts in Glorantha .Three months later at word go it has even 1st level characters as larger Continuum 2008 at Leicester University. I arrived than life people on Hero Quests. There’s also a lot clutching a box of about fifty copies of issue 1 which of fun stuff, such as troll characters and Eurmali sold out over the course of the convention. Tricksters, that you get to play right out of the first book. This is probably going to be my next game It’s also my editorial policy. This is a fanzine. I want after I stop mucking about with RQ Classic, but my the articles to show the fun and love people have for mate Guy Milner is way ahead of me having run The Glorantha. Its why I’ve resisted doing “theme” issues Beard of Lhankor Mhy (see page 23) multiple times at were a bunch of writers noodle on about something conventions. that hasn’t been touched at the gaming table. Its why I will never post dry conversion notes or articles RuneQuest Glorantha. Using RQ 2 as a base, and being overly critical about other people’s work in drastically upping the page count to cover the entire HiG. Dragonpass region in detail, this is the 400 plus page titan that fans have been wanting from the old days. The classic game expanded and updated with a rock An Embarrassment of solid Gloranthan base. While I’m still ploughing Riches through the pdf of the main rulebook, Stewart Stansfield has charged ahead and used the Duck One of the things that defines the initial run of stats from the Bestiary Preview that Chaosium has HiG (issues 1-5) was that we were constrained by made available as a taster for the full book available the availability of the games. HeroQuest and sort-of later this year, and created Slipbeak a Seven Mothers RuneQuest 3 were the only options.. Initiate and Lunar sympathiser (see page 16). NowSample as of last month we have four options: So there’s no longer any excuse.file Get out there and RuneQuest Classic (or RuneQuest 2). OK this one is play, create and submit the results to Hearts in perhaps for the Grognards or playful folk like me that Glorantha :) want to enjoy a barebones Gloranthan experience, ;O) Newt with minimal rules. The adventures The Secret of Duck Hill (in last issue) and The Golden Gorp (page 36) are July 2018.

3 Hearts in Glorantha Pavis Boxing Association A Herocult for RuneQuest 3 by Leon Kirshtein

“Exercise develops the body, music develops the soul and knowledge develops the mind. Only thus can beauty be created. A beautiful soul and mind are not the sole attributes of man ”

The Pavis Boxing Association was established in 1618 With Melagomas’ help and additional research the under the auspices of resurrecting the ancient Pavic PBA became a reality and generated a lot of interest tradition of boxing as a sport practiced in the EWF. amongst the Sons of the Hammer as well as in certain Actually no-one really knows if such a thing really circles in Suntown. existed in Pavis. Certainly there has never been any documented evidence of such a thing taking place in Currently membership is not restricted, but one the city during Pavis’ reign. Although pottery found must be invited to join. Such invitations are issued from this period does show naked contestants engaged by the Sons of the Hammer, who have taken in some sort of martial activity. These have been used over administering the training facilities and event to justify the “reemergence”. scheduling for the PBA, once an invitation is agreed. In reality the cult of Pavis, concerned by the systematic Membership of the PBA costs 100L per season. This attempt by the Lunar authorities to control weapon allows the member to have full access to the training ownership in the city, decided to seek an alternative facilities and to compete for prizes in sponsored method to give its members combat training, while not events. Private lessons are also available through the appearing to do so. association at a cost of 100L per week. A match continues until one fighter is unable to continue or The rules and forms for the style were at first derived gives in. There are no separate weight categories and as a mixture of Dara Happan wrestling and some of no rounds. the stripped down Kralorelan martial arts styles. All kicking was to be removed to make it resemble more Headquarters: Pavis Temple at New Pavis. A of a sport (in order to deceive the Lunars). A great temporary training hall has been established near the deal of effort and research was put forth by the Loyal Pavis Temple in New Pavis (H-20). Exhibition fights Apprentices, and specifically by Broosta Daughter of and matches take place at the Pavis Temple. Pavis, in order to come up with sufficient justification. Requirements: Must be invited to join. There was a great deal of surprise for all involved Skills taught: Martial Arts (Boxing), Fist Attack/Parry. when several scrolls were found in the Lhankor Mhy temple showing that a similar style actually existed and is currently actively practised in Dara Happa. In The Spirit of Melagomas fact there were several skilled fighters amongst the POW 19, INT 15 SunSample Dome Templars recruited by Joraz Kyrem in 877 Melagomas is credited with an abilityfile to defeat his ST. Further research and questing allowed Broosta opponent with but a stare. “To hit, to wound and be to contact a spirit of one Melagomas of Caria, a wounded is not bravery,” he would say before a match. Sun Dome Templar who came to Pavis with Joraz. Most opponents would withdraw even before the first Melagomas was a true worshipper of Aparro, the blows were exchanged. Once he was able to defend divine source of boxing, and a master boxer. himself and avoid his opponent’s punches for two

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straight days until his opponent was forced to admit good physical form, fighting spirit and faith in eventual defeat. victory. Melagomas appears as a well-muscled man of Dara There are no stated rules which ban dangerous blows, Happan origin, nude but for a loin cloth and straps of no kicking or head butting is allowed, however the leather tied around his fists. His spirit manifests within spectators prefer to take pleasure in a clean win, the PBA’s training facilities, usually overseeing practice achieved by honest means and technique, and not matches amongst the members. He also manifests by barbaric loss of control or underhand strikes. A during special events and competitions arranged by boxer forcing his opponent to yield through technical the PBA. In several cases he has been known to cast expertise and the ability to endure repeated blows is Demoralize at one of the combatants who appear to considered to be a true master of the form. Injuring be losing control of themselves in the middle of a an opponent taints ones victory. fight. Fist attack SR of 2 instead of 3. MartialSample Arts, Boxing (00) Damage from fist attacks are tripledfile (3D3) on a Knowledge, non-checkable successful attack which is also lower than the Boxing skill. In mythology, boxing has a divine origin. Aporro, a minor Dara Happan deity, is considered to be its Fist parry will stop 9pts of damage on a successful creator. A boxer’s basic qualities are deemed to be parry which is also lower than the Boxing skill.

5 Hearts in Glorantha How A Rubble Runner Destroyed the Crimson Bat at The Battle of Iceland by Lev Lafayette and Erica Hoehn, with contributions from Damien Bosman, Loran Aillet, Mark Mohrfield, Dougie Punk, Nic Hughes, Sam Elliot

For a while I was thoroughly confused. The trap This Is A Little Familiar itself seemed to have appear from nowhere. Despite I call myself Rotterex, but I did not always carry that my most aggressive snarls, the party of Men laughed name. Matter of fact, for a great part of my life I and took me away to a massive city called Seguarane, didn’t call myself anything really. You see, back then where one of them took me inside his home; a small I was just an animal. True, an animal some eighteen place, full of unusual smells, musty tomes, and an inches in length with sharp teeth and scaly armour extraordinary range of clutter. Even more strange, the plating, but nevertheless just an animal, and a fairly man decided to feed me, rather than use me as food, despised and mocked one among the Elder and as I expected. Slowly I came to trust this odd creature, Young Races. Just a rubble runner, just at least to an extent, and became used to a rubble rat, a nuisance creature his rituals. As he fed me, he would to be slain and cleared out surround me with candles and as those tomb-robbers sticks of incense and mutter whom call themselves strange incantations, “adventurers” placing his hand on my sought ancient scaly back. baubles or forgotten and In the days that dangerous followed my mind magics. changed; I became more aware of It was one of who and what these groups I was. The man that was was Guillaume investigating Faust, and he my old home, was a wizard, a a place which I specialist in the would later learn magics of movement was called “Red and that most rare Ruin”. As part of and difficult arcane art my extended family, of teleportation. I was we took the opportunity a Rubble Runner, who was to raid the bags of said named ‘Rotterex’ by the wizard party as they slept around the - meaning ‘the rat king’. One day campfire. Perhaps later on we could he mentioned that I would be the familiar feed on their corpses as their Power was drained to this wizard - I thought we already were quite awaySample by the many malevolent spirits that lived in the familiar with each other, but it turnedfile out that meant Ruins, and which fortunately ignored us most of the something else. As I learned the ways of wizardry time. Turns out however that these adventurers weren’t from sharing the mind of my master Guillaume, it really asleep. In fact, they were trying to find and catch seemed that I had been teleported into the cage once a Rubble Runner and me, apparently the most curious spotted. I came to enjoy my new role in life and even or stupid or both of my family, found himself caught preferred it to that of my former family. Despite the in a cage as the rest of my family were chased away.