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Runequest COMPANION RuneQuest COMPANION CREDITS maps Charlie Krank editing Lynn Willis artists Rick Becker, William Church, Gene Day, Kevin Ramos, Steve Swenston authors Bill Johnson, Sherman Kahn, Alan LaVergne, Jim McCormick, Ron Nance, Sandy Petersen, Greg Stafford proofreading Sherman Kahn Classic Edition: Proofreading by Susan O'Brien, Layout by Nicholas Nacario. Copyright © 1983 and 2020. All rights reserved. Reproduction of this work by any means without written permission from the publisher, except short excerpts for the purpose of reviews or game play, is expressly prohibited. RuneQuest and Glorantha are trademarks of Moon Design Publications. First Printing - July 2020 ISBN# 978-1-56882-520-5 Would you like to know more about Chaosium? See our extensive website at www.chaosium.com This is a document of Lhankor Mhy, Lord of the Light of Inspiration, who seeks and finds knowledge from beyond the ken of the gods. Brain Flayers protect this document haunting any who profane, Samplemisuse, or steal from it without true value paid. file RuneQuest TABLE OF CONTENTS WELCOME TO THE ILLUSION MAGIC 40 RUNEQUEST COMPANION 3 For the first time, illusion theory and spells for use in RuneQuest AN EXPANDED CULT COMPATIBILITY CHART 4 SKULLBUSH 42 This revised chart contains listings for all of the A look at the only food crop unique to the cults published by Chaosium. Praxian environment. This article also includes a price list of oilseed-derivative products. AN INDEX TO RUNEQUEST CULTS 5 This alphabetical listing of cults is divided into PRINCE ARGRATH’S ENTRY two categories: Gloranthan and Non-Gloran- INTO BOLDHOME 43 than cults. An eyewitness account of the Liberator’s triumphant entrance into the beleagured Sartar THE JONSTOWN COMPENDIUM 6 capital. A glimpse into the workings of the Lhankor Mhy knowledge-storage systems. THE SMELL OF A RAT 44 A tongue-in-cheek investigation THE HARLOT OF ALONE 9 starring the greatest detective in all Glorantha. A touching fragment translated from the diary of an unknown soldier. A HISTORY OF MY BLACK HORSE TROOP 59 THE MAZE OF SHAXRY OBOROK 10 Wisdom from one of Glorantha’s greatest heroes, A RuneQuest solo adventure! The wily Ethilrist. In this fragment, he recounts his magician Shaxry Oborok has fashioned this battle with the monstrous Hungry Jack. maze to challenge the most experienced adventurers. Dare you pit your skills and magics AN ILLUSTRATION OF CAD GODDEU, against his? THE BATTLE FOR THE TREES 64 Drawn from the Red Book of Hergest, the late WALKTAPUS COOKING 25 Gene Day illustrated this conflict of ancient From Beat Pot Alewrin’s very own cookbook. legend. Now you, too, can enjoy these savory delicacies favored by Lunar citizenry. MORE ON TROLLS 66 Sandy Petersen reviews his treatment of trolls THE HOLY COUNTRY 27 in Trollpak and provides new information. The mythos and history of the magical land located to the south of Dragon Pass. THE IVORY PLINTH 68 Originally a chant of the Tusk Riders, this is the A SPECIES SPOTLIGHT: UNICORNS 36 only portion uttered by Ydom-Yee, famous An intriguing study of these often misunder- traveller. stood creatures. RUNEQUEST ERRATA 69 THE DISPATCH OF FADABIUS 39 This is the final presentation of these corrections and additions to the A translation of a letter from a loyal scribe, RuneQuest rules. Fadabius Sunneil, to a friend in Furthest. It provides insight into the troubles in the Dragon COMPANION QUESTIONNAIRE 72 SamplePass region during the Hero Wars. file 2 Companion RuneQuest WELCOME TO THE COMPANION Nine months ago we ceased publication of Wyrms Footnotes, a Articles appearing in the Companion come from many semi-regular magazine that provided readers with new RuneQuest sources. First, we peruse extinct Wyrms Footnotes issues and Gloranthan information, rules, and personalities. Since its looking for articles which are still relevant. These are re-edited. demise, we have received many letters from readers begging us An example of this type of article is “A History of My Black to continue with WF publication. Unfortunately, it costs too much Horse Troop.” Sometimes articles are portions of other projects money. During those nine months we have not ignored our faithful which had to be cut due to space limitations (“Skullbush” and RuneQuest players, for we have published several major RQ “Unicorns”). Other articles are created from whole cloth – supplements; including Borderlands, Questworld, Trollpak, plus whenever someone here gets a brilliant idea and has the energy a line of solo adventures (SoloQuest, Scorpion Hall, and The Snow and time to fully work it out. Finally, some of the articles King’s Bride). RuneQuest players have had plenty of material to appearing in the Companion are created by outside sources such explore through adventuring. as you readers. We encourage outside submissions, but we do not However, we still received letters requesting a new guarantee that anything submitted will be published. RuneQuest publication, and we had many ideas on how to fill On the last page of this book is a questionnaire. On it we such a product. The result is the RuneQuest Companion. have listed many of the topics we would like to cover in future The Companion is not a magazine. It will not follow a issues of the Companion. Let us know what you think. Check-off publishing schedule, and we will not accept subscriptions to a couple of boxes on this form and return it to us. Many of these it. Instead, we will continually search for quality RuneQuest topics will be covered, many will never be, but your opinions are material to fill its pages. Whenever we have accumulated 64- greatly valuable to us. We want to know what you want to see. 96 pages of top-notch articles we will publish a new volume of So, welcome to the RuneQuest Companion. Take the Companion. This means that it probably will appear once or your time looking through it. This book will provide you with twice per year. many ideas that can be incorporated into your own RuneQuest campaign. ON THE NEXT PAGE: The following page contains an expanded Cult Compatibility Chart listing all of the cults that have appeared in Chaosium products. You will recognize it from similar charts that have appeared in Cults of Prax and Cults of Terror. This chart supersedes those previous charts. Corrections and additions have been included here. It is important to note that this is not a mirror-image chart. One cult may not have the same attitude that another cult holds for it, even among associated cults. The left-hand column of cult names indicates the active party – the cult whose attitudes are in question. Along the top the subject cults are listed. Attitudes are rated on a 0-4 scale. ‘0’ indicates Sampleenemy cults: ‘1’ indicates hostility:file ‘2’ stands for neutrality; ‘3’ shows friendly cults; and ‘4’ indicates associated status where cults trade spells and skills. 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