Glorantha The Second Age

Covering the Second Age of Glorantha, this full color sourcebook is the essential guide to the classic RuneQuest setting. This book will place Games Masters and players alike straight into this world, allowing them to visualize the places they visit as no world book has yet done. No settlement will feel like "just another town" in Glorantha, as players travel across the wilderness in the search for Runes, glory and ultimate power.

One of the oldest settings of any roleplaying game is back, and more comprehensive than ever! Covering every nation of Glorantha, this book lists the histories, myths and cultures of the world, complete with maps and detailed illustrations that bring the setting to life. Glorantha is a world permeated by magic and shaped by myth. Its heroes achieve power by questing for runes, physical manifestations of the eternal abstract forces that shape its destiny. Eventually they graduate to even more powerful magic, learning to gain power by emulating the deeds of the gods, mastering the arcane formulae of the sorcerous arts, allying with spirits, or achieving meditative awareness of life's unknowable secrets. In doing so, they draw on one or more of the mythic Otherworlds surrounding their everyday material world. With the right magic, they can travel to the realms of the gods, become participants in their ancestral myths, and return with wondrous new abilities. Those who fail these daunting tests may be diminished, destroyed, or eternally lost in the mythic realms.

Roleplaying in Glorantha for the 13th Age rules system.

Core Rulebook

In it glorious Second Age, Glorantha is the prize of warring empires. Two empires, more similar that they'd like to admit, vie for ultimate dominance. The God Learner Empire seeks to crack open and the very secrets of the gods, manipulating them to their own ends. The Empire of Wyrm's Friends works to transform its land and people into a gigantic, mystical dragon, which will take flight and reshape the entire world. The Second Age is a time of unprecedented discovery and exploration. For the first time, trade and travel allows the interaction of far-flung cultures. Both Empires innovate feverishly, unveiling new forms of magic, new devices, new modes of perception. Against this backdrop of unfettered progress, dark omens gather. Men have pushed the Glorantha's eternal laws of myth and magic to the breaking point. How long will it be before the world strikes back at them, punishing their unprecedented hubris?

Gloranthan History, Myths, and Culture source book for RPGs.

One of the greatest roleplaying games of all time comes back in a new edition designed for the 21st Century! Building on the previous editions of the game, the all new RuneQuest system has been developed under the watchful eyes of Messrs Stafford and Perrin, and has been subjected to the longest and most open playtesting period that any Mongoose game has been through. Released as a 100-page hardback book, priced at $19.95, RuneQuest gives players all the core rules they need to begin playing - indeed, with the monsters included in this book, Games Masters can construct complete scenarios with this single tome.