Pyramid Pick: Glorantha: Introduction To The Hero Wars

Pyramid Pick

Glorantha: Introduction To The Hero Wars

Published by Issaries, Inc.

Written by Greg Stafford and Peter Metcalfe

256 pages trade paperback size, $19.95

Fans of the long established fantasy world Glorantha have been waiting with bated breath (if you can wait with bated breath for years) for the release of a new role-playing system for it, to replace the venerable but still very usable Runequest system which vanished from print in a flurry of legal complications when Chaosium who created RQ parted company with Avalon Hill who had the publishing rights to it some years back. To be out of print for years and still to maintain a solid base of fanatical admirers is something that only Glorantha and Tekumel have been able to do in the world of role-playing. So the return of the world with a new game-system and a new publisher is something we've all been hoping will revive the fortunes of Glorantha-philes everywhere.

My reaction to the new Hero Wars game (which I'll let someone else review) has been slightly (well, more than slightly) ambiguous. Perhaps I'm just a middle aged reactionary yearning back to the joyful gaming memories of my youth, who can say? I'm a lot happier with Issaries second product. The last time a comprehensive guide to this world was attempted was 1988 when Avalon Hill brought out Glorantha: Genertela and that only tried to cover the northern continent. This attempts in a mere 256 pages to give a quick once over to the entire . . .

This article originally appeared in the second volume of Pyramid. See the current Pyramid website for more information.



Article publication date: July 14, 2000

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