The God Learners

Art from King of Dragon Pass, by A-Sharp On this second episode of the Glorantha Initiation Series, we interview Russano Greenstripe. Russsano discovered Glorantha with King of Dragon Pass , a game by A-Sharp, available on pretty much any platforms you’d want to play on. If he could start a Gloranthan game, Russano would pick QuestWorlds as a ruleset. In the meantime, he has brought Eurmal t...

This topic was actually suggested to us by our guests Jon Webb and Neil Gibson. Jon Webb is the initiator and an author of the four volumes of the Sandheart series , following the challenges of the militia of a remote Sun County hamlet. Also featured on the Chaosium Blog . Neil Gibson returns after gracing us in our first God Learner Podcast episode , with ducks in the pipeline. News Starter Set o...

This is the inaugural episode of the Glorantha Initiation series, where we talk to members of the tribe who recently joined the God Learner studies. The God Learner Podcast wants to investigate how people comparatively new to Glorantha experience the world, what are the rewards, what are the hurdles when approaching this setting. To test the concept and the questionnaire we plan to use on our volu...

Our guest for this episode is Drew Baker , author of a series of products on the Jonstown Compendium, including the QAD (Quick and Dirty) series (available as the omnibus edition “ Pimper’s Block “), the Rubble Redux scenarios Insula of the Waning Moon and Insula of the Rising Sun , and Alogo’s Caravan – Riding Animals of Dragon Pass .. Announcement: The Gloranthan In...

This episode’s guests are Beer with Teeth, at time in character: Erin (aka Varanis, a noble of Sartar lineage) Dom (aka Rajar, a huge Storm Bull axe fighter) Diana (aka Berra, a tiny Humakti warrior) We also learn about their original GM Tom who is at fault, and about Kris who is the resident visual artist. Why Beer With Teeth, and how they arrived at the logo. Current Glorantha games played...

Our guest this (long!) episode is David Scott, who wears a number of Chaosium hats – among others convention presence, rules Q&A, and the web archives. David talks about his work on the Well of Daliath – a collection of material posted on glorantha.com, slowly reconstructed from backups when stuff didn‘t migrate that well across platforms, and also chronicling current notes on Glorantha....

Returning to our tower for our second episode of the God Learners Podcast, we meet Austin Conrad, the author and publisher of the Myth of the Month on Jonstown Compendium aka Akhelas or Crel. We digress badly even before we get into the news or our blurb for the Newsletter. (Spoiler: we keep rambling. Surprised?) The News Don’t forget to subscribe to the Journal of Runic Studies ! Get your G...

For our first episode of the God Learners Podcast we are visiting Neil Gibson, proprietor of the Black Alynx inn in the seedier parts of Jonstown. Neil’s podcast “Tales of the Black Alynx” had a series of interviews with creators of the Jonstown Compendium, but it is missing one significant contributor – a certain Neil Gibson, author of “LEGION”. We are aiming t...

In this short interlude, Joerg and Ludovic announce their return to Gloranthan podcasting with a new name! Shortly after this airs, all of our website and social media presence will migrate to a new place. Visit the God Learners for more information… if you get the “Coming Soon” page, it means we are still heroquesting deep into the bowels of the internet!

Intro Episode 8 airs with a few weeks delay compared to our usual rhythm, as we wanted to feature our Glorantha Has Talent? -contest in this episode. We found the wait worth the while, and so did our judges. Herald’s Podium While we have moved the complete coverage of news about Glorantha to our Wind Whispers newsletter , we still pick a few items for our voice reporting. Glorantha Fan Award...

Well, this is something Ludo has been looking forward to since the release of The Valley of Plenty, To be honest, so have we all, and the Carpenters were as wonderful as we thought they would be, They invited us into their lovely southern home replete with kids dogs and a just a wee touch of chaos—in a very genteel way. And in the course of our conversation we find everything one expects from the...

Glorantha Has Talent? 00:40 We announce our contest for audio takes on Glorantha. A Ludoch Story 02;10 Another example (after last episode’s joke at the end of the podcast) of how such a 3 minute audio entry could sound The Herald‘s Podium 05:25 Starting with an interruption announcing Wind Whispers , a newsletter collecting the news of the week (convention news, new products, new rumors, an...

In this fifth episode of Wind Words, we come back to Sartar to look at every Heortling’s favourite past time: cattle raiding. Why do they like cattle so much around here that they need to go and steal them from their neighbours on a regular basis? But first, we look at this month’s Gloranthan news. Herald’s Podium (located at 41 seconds) Gen Con Online (located at 1:o8 minutes) B...

As our team of intrepid explorers enters the capital of the Lunar Empire, we are joined by a team of professional historians.. Sit back, get a snack and something to drink, this may take a while. First a short word about our tribe: at the time of publication, there have been more than 1111 downloads of the first three episodes in total. (That’s 1111 in decimal.) The Herald’s Podium As...

For our third episode of Wind Words, we decided to have a look at the narrative in Cults of Prax. But before that comes our regular look at the news and rumors. The Herald’s Podium Corona Virus-related news items: How COVID19 impacts the gaming industry and fandom EnWorld interviews Games Distributors closing down ( EnWorld Article ). and withholding payments to games publishers ( BoardgameG...

Here’s our second episode of Wind Words, where we look at scenes in the Founders Market of Pavis. We hope our audio quality has improved somewhat, but we’re still learning and Bill has a terrible head cold which is why he sounds so bad. Andrey Fetisov art used with kind permission of Chaosium Inc/Moon Design Publications for the background header of this blog post. Introduction We are...

The inaugural episode of Wind Words! We apologize for the audio quality: bear with us as we learn how to edit and mix recorded voices. Introduction Why are we entering the adventurous world of podcasting? Musings about the RuneQuest Renaissances. When and how did we get into RuneQuest? The Herald’s Podium Our collection of news (at the time of recording): RIP Christopher Tolkien https://en.w...