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The God Learners

The God Learners

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 A podcast about gaming in Glorantha in which we cover news and discuss topics about RuneQuest, QuestWorlds, and other related games such as 13th Age Glorantha, King of Dragon Pass, Six Ages, The Gods War, or Khan of Khans.Glorantha, RuneQuest, and QuestWorlds are copyright Chaosium Inc.
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  • Episode 36: The Reminiscences of Paulis Longvale (Part 2)

    Episode 36: The Reminiscences of Paulis Longvale (Part 2)
    2025/12/11
    Our Guest We welcome once again Austin Conrad to the show! His website is AkhelasGet Treasures of Glorantha: Volume 2, one of the finest books on the Jonstown Compendium! (which we talked about in episode 31)Austin hopes to be “done soon” with his upcoming “Wolves of the Wild Hunt” book… that was a couple months ago and it’s not done yet The book will include slightly remastered previous materials such as The Quacken, and The Queen’s Star, plus new stuff about Gagarthi monsters! Show Notes Things that happened in this episode: Joerg reminds us what the Reminiscences of Paulis Longvale are… Listen to episode 34 if you haven’t already!Cults of Terror is “the gamemaster’s best friend”Also listen to episode 35 with Simon Phipp, specialist of Dorastor!Yes, YOU too can play a Thanatar cultist!Ludo summarizes the previous episode’s storyAustin mentions the old Dorastor book, plus gives another shout out to Simon Phipp’s booksLudo goes on a short tangent about the name “Bilini”Austin lays down another argument about the Orlanthi really being VikingsWe discuss the various motivations of the characters regarding Chaos, Dorastor, and the Lunar EmpireLudo has made a spreadsheet! He tries to figure out what are the chances of the Bilini king’s army against Razalkark’s armyHow cute are baby broos? Or baby Scorpion Men? Apparently Diana Probst has one of those in Stone and Bone, go check it out!We talk about battle tactics and “broo walls”How the hell do you recreate this story using RQ rules? Should we play using HeroQuest/QuestWorlds? (again)The phalanx rules suck?Is dual wielding better than using a shield? (We fumble around the convoluted RQG dual wielding rules)Rules terms inside the narrative text… what to make of it?Would you abstract the things we see in this story to “just a few rolls” in RuneQuest?Austin is being an asshole (his words! not mine!)How much plunder do you get from Chaos creatures?Giving a “personal touch” to plunder and gifts… or just add some jewels!Reselling gifts to buy actually useful stuff, like skills and spells!“WHERE IS MY MONEY?” and other things players sayAncient cultures versus transactional culturesEa-Nasir name drop!Storm Bull cultists as a biker gangAustin mentions “A Short Detour” and the way we tried writing Chaos cultists as nuanced peopleAre Illuminates crazy assholes? Or are they people with feelings?Uleria is more powerful and bad-ass than we give her credit forBody horror with Uleria! Play Limbo!Austin has more conspiracy theories about the Celestial Court on his website!Vampires in Dorastor… do they have enough to eat?World of Darkness vampires vs Dresden Files vampires (also, Ludo mixes up Dresden Files and Laundry Files)Austin’s Harrek campaign, and the shenanigans the PCs are up toGive player characters cool or embarrassing epithets!The interesting framing of a Chaos-based narrative with a Lunar perspectiveTelmori vampires! Or vampires feeding on Telmori! Maybe both!The lost power of RQ2 vampires that can steal Rune magic when feeding off someoneRituals to get your magic items to trust youFear mechanics in RuneQuest?There’s a difference between improvising and off-the-rails-improvising!RQ2 silver magic collars… they’re in every RQ2 storyHow do you keep prisoners?Suspicious tricksters! (aren’t they always?)Joerg tells us about Jojo The Bobo. Also, Bugs Bunny and the Puppeteer Troupe“We’re in Dorastor, but we’re getting…. human drama???!” 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.
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    1 時間 37 分
  • Glorantha Initiation: Benjamin, Podcasts, Wikis, and Looking for the One Truth

    Glorantha Initiation: Benjamin, Podcasts, Wikis, and Looking for the One Truth
    2025/10/27
    We are back with a long overdue Glorantha Initiation interview featuring twice the amount of French accents! We talked to Benjamin, aka Dasfynx, who is the webmaster of the (French) RuneQuest Wiki, and co-hosts the (also French) “Runecast” podcast with Gianni Vacca. Le Wiki du JDR RuneQuestLe Runecast (you can of course find it on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or on whatever app you use to listen to podcasts!) Show Notes Here are the things we talk about in this episode! Ben’s podcast “Runecast”This is one of the three known “talk show” podcasts about Glorantha right now, the other one being the Finnish Dayzatarin tähtien alla (“Under the stars of Dayzatar”)Ben also runs the French RQWiki which started as a translation of Chaosium’s wiki. It started as just figuring out what tech was powering Chaosium’s websiteThen it was a small translation for Ben’s playersAnd then other fans joined the effort… there are now extra things compared to the Chaosium version Any extra material on the wiki that is from the published material is reproduced with the approval of Studio Deadcrows, the French publisher for RQGWatching old adventure/sci-fi movies on VHS, and being pitched the Warhammer Fantasy RPG (WFRP) as similar to those moviesBen’s first purchased RPG books were from the Call of Cthulhu and World of Darkness lines, but we was busy playing sports and listening to rap, so he read the books but didn’t play them! This may be called “lonely fun” Only years after that one WFRP game did Ben finally find another gaming group playing the WEG Star Wars RPGBen offered to GM Call of Cthulhu after that, which lasted for a handful of years, going through the Spawn of Azathoth campaign You too can learn geography and history by GMing Call of Cthulhu! It’s hard to find English or French RPG books while living in China, so Ben loaded up on many books whenever he would come homeAs a Roliste TV watcher (YouTube channel here), Ben learned that one host (Mathieu) is a big fan of RuneQuest, so Ben bought the latest edition… and didn’t like it! This is because the world wasn’t described enough for Ben to picture, so he bought the Glorantha Sourcebook… and didn’t like it either! Too many names and lists of things!It was the Bestiary that made Ben “get it”: each “monster” is actually coming from somewhere and have their place After that, Ben was deep into Glorantha and started reading more and more books about it Glorantha: a steep curve followed by a rabbit hole! Books are expensive so Ben got Gianni Vacca to explain things to him for free! Gianni is Ben’s co-host on the Runecast podcastGianni is Ben’s Joerg, an old hands of Glorantha… actually even older than Joerg, since Gianni started with RQ2!Ben’s wiki and podcast are geared towards beginners Favourite thing about Glorantha: Dorastor, to make players suffer! See Simon Phipp’s “Secrets of Dorastor” (and other related books), and his interview episode on the show Sartar, because it’s an interesting place Next on Ben’s reading list are the Red Cow campaign books (book 1 and book 2) See also Ian Cooper’s Questworlds interview on the show Things Ben doesn’t like: the gray areas, because he likes to feel like he understands everythingBen asks Joerg what is the nature of the great compromise? Joerg explains how gods can break the compromise and act in TimeWe talk about avatars of gods also manifesting gods enough to endanger the Compromise, and how Chaos allows gods to get involved in Time Greg’s narrative framework of writing “in world” texts that give contradictory views and accountsThe annoyance of “no answers” vs “multiple answers”King of Sartar is… a dense and complicated bookGMing the French campaign “Children of the Flame” (Gianni is an author on it) This campaign helped show Ben what is possible in GloranthaIt’s about the Dundealos tribe, near Swenville, after they have been replaced by the Lunar Entalos tribe… until the Dragonrise gives an opportunity to retake their landsFaction play, with various tribes, the Lunars, etc.There’s a map of Swenville! A good way to start in Glorantha is a good example: a scenario, a campaign, etc. The Sourcebook isn’t a good idea for beginnersThe GM pack or a campaign are better! (classic RQ2 campaigns, or newer ones from the Jonstown Compendium)Basically, start small! The French edition of RQG has one scenario in the rulebook, and one in the bestiary… something the English edition is lacking!Ludo briefly talks about his similarly failed encounters with GloranthaBen reiterates how Glorantha is consistently deep and how he loves that about itBen started just with the books for a while, but later discovered there are so many things about Glorantha on the internet! Shout-out to 7Tigers, who translates all the news and Well of Daliath content to FrenchAlso shout-out to Olivier from “Les Fils du Chaos” for helping correct the French RQWikiAnd ...
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    1 時間 21 分
  • Episode 35: Secrets of Dorastor

    Episode 35: Secrets of Dorastor
    2025/05/23
    Our Guest Our guest this episode is Simon Phipp, author of Secrets of Dorastor, Secrets of Heroquesting, and author or contributor on many, many other books. Joerg sadly isn’t present this time: he was stuck on a highway somewhere in Germany waiting for auto-assistance. Show Notes Here are some various things we talk about in this episode: Getting started playing in Glorantha in 1982… which sounds like 15 years ago but apparently is a lot longer agoRuneQuest 2 (with Cults of Prax) was Simon’s first game Bud (from Bud’s RPG Review) recently said that it’s like being born with a silver spoon in your mouth Watching “World of Sports” and reading “The Iliad” as a kid… as one doesSimon loves RQ2 for its scale and the visceral feeling you get from playing itPlaying in Dorastor because it was nasty and unmapped in the early 80s The only source was the Paulis Longvale narrative from Cults of TerrorOther GMs in Simon’s gaming circles were already playing in the “usual places” (Sartar, Prax, Pavis & The Big Rubble)We started our series on Paulis Longvale last episode! Running a Star Trek-like episodic campaign in and out of Dorastor, starting around 1985Later, during the RuneQuest 3 era, Dorastor: Land of Doom was releasedSimon’s players accused him of knowing about the upcoming book’s contents!The pros & cons of playing in the vaguely defined Glorantha of the 80s vs the encyclopedic Glorantha of the 2010sThe Dorastor: Land of Doom’s warning on the back cover is factually accurate… if you consider Simon, as a GM, as a big and ugly thing!Come to the Risklands! It’s great!The Chaos Nests of Genertela. They’re great too! Simon’s Dorastor has multiple Chaos Nests In his campaign, Simon’s players killed Razalkark, the king of the Broos, and occupied his fort… and then things got worseChaotic True Dragons are apparently a bad thing?Simon tells us the story of Dorastor, including his own interpretation of the whole Nysalor/Gbaji/Arkat thing You may remember we discussed some of this with Bud in a previous episode Dorastor is filled with lots and lots of bad monsters! How do you get your players to go there?Simon’s Dorastor is a bit more nuanced than just “a place to kill monsters”: you can create alliances, do trade, and so onSimon gets bored to tears watching the Gloranthan metaplot unfold, with NPCs doing all the cool things HeroWars was very guilty of this Dorastor is so far away from Dragon Pass that we don’t care what Argrath is doing!Simon’s books contain many, many scenarios for Dorastor, plus many adventure seedsThere are several layers to Dorastor: Go in, fight Chaos, come out (if you succeed enough times, become a Dorastor guide!)Interact with the big personalities of Dorastor (meet the Spider Queen, she’s great!) Storm Bull initiates must learn to prioritizeHumakti broos! Dorastor ducks! Giant vampires!Relationship with the neighboursDon’t forget not all cults hate ChaosSimon likes messing with his players’ headsChaotic people: they’re not as bad as you think? But watch out, you might quickly end up worshipping Thanatar if you don’t pay attention to Simon’s evil schemes Finding lost or secret things in DorastorWhat makes heroes?Super-RuneQuest! and other high-level character stats…The most useless magic item ever… until it breaks your scenario!The problem of long running campaignsAcid! Poison! Ash elementals!Bathing in gorps!Ludo discovers that Cacodemon got Vomit Acid in RuneQuest 3Fun with Chaos Features!Simon’s best anecdote: basilisks and mirrors!Designing encounter locationsIt’s not the GM’s job to know the solutions, it’s their job to setup problemsHair and fingernail elementals!Illumination in Dorastor: break the rules, become good, become evil?Come to Dorastor, it’s lovely, and you can become heroes! 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.
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    1 時間 28 分
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