Show Notes
Fionn fighting Aillen by Beatrice Elvery, Jason and the Argonauts by Columbia Pictures, Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay by Games Workshop
In this episode of our Glorantha Initiation Series, we had the absolute pleasure of talking to Lee O’Connor. He came to Glorantha during the initial pandemic lockdown by way of his love for mythology and the fact that his middle-aged British gamer friends wanted to recapture the joy of their youth by playing RPGs again.
We apologize for Lee’s squeaking and cracking chair, which causes some background noise during the interview.
Where to Find Lee
This is where you’ll find Lee online:
Personal website, and blog
Instagram feed
Twitter and Facebook
Fionn Mac Cumhaill Graphic Novel
RuneQuest campaign wiki (the PCs’ village is “Stoneroot”)
All of Lee’s Gloranthan art is in this Facebook photo set
Lee contributed some art to the Duckpac sourcebooks for RuneQuest Glorantha.
Lee also has some more upcoming stuff for RuneQuest:
Upcoming black elves book by Brian Duguid
Upcoming Greydog clan book by Jonathan Quaife
Upcoming “in-world” historical book by Jonathan Quaife
Show Notes
Here is a list of stuff we talk about in the interview:
The medieval town of Totnes in Devon (UK) where Totnes Castle is
Image Comics
Games Workshop shops (say it three times fast)
Warhammer and Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay (the latest edition is published by Cubicle7)
Magic The Gathering
RuneQuest (spoken in reverential tones by British people)
Warhammer’s Beastmen and RuneQuest’s Broos
Call of Cthulhu and the Masks of Nyarlathotep campaign
Cyberpunk 2020
Savage Worlds
Dungeons & Dragons
Fighting Fantasy books and the RPGs that spun-off from them
There are no tabletops in buses
RuneQuest Glorantha Quickstart
Agon, for playing in mythic Greece
GURPS Greece
Savage Worlds’ 50 Fathoms and Pirates of the Spanish Main
OpenQuest
Barebones Fantasy
Jason and the Argonauts
Cthulhutech: H.P. Lovecraft meets Neon Genesis Evangelion plus Guyver
Too Good To Be True, a Battletech PbtA system
The Regiment, another PbtA game
RuneQuest Glorantha, and the wonderful cover by Andrey Fetisov
Fionn mac Cumhaill (pronounced Finn Macool, because of course it is), and the similarities to the later Arthurian myths
The Cattle Raid of Cooley
Using the King of Dragon Pass wiki for heroquesting ideas
Father Ted
RQG Gamemaster adventures
Understanding the RQG Family History and bringing it in play
The big Dragon Pass timeline, playing along the metaplot, and whether to bring back Kallyr
The Duel at Dangerford
JRR Tolkien and his take on celtic mythology
The Seven Tailed Wolf
The Black Spear
Using King of Sartar for the alternative timelines
River river, Hill hill hill hill, and the “quadruple redundancy of tautological placename etymologies”
Gloranthan bad names (Clearwine, Ghosts Around, Nochet)
RuneQuest Starter Set and Infinity Engine strike rank trackers
The too many skills of RuneQuest
The complicated publishing history of RuneQuest and its edition wars
The modularity of RuneQuest
Too much bookkeeping of weapon HP
Babies, adult themes, and X-Cards
The Glorantha Sourcebook vs The Guide to Glorantha
D’Aulaire’s Book of Greek Myths
The Percy Jackson & The Olympians book series by Rick Riordan
The “Rick Riordan Presents” book imprint with, for instance, The Storm Runner, a middle grade/young adult fantasy book based on Mayan mythology
Tales of the Reaching Moon
More from The God Learners
Ludo gets the episode number wrong! Also, he’s sick and tried to edit all of his sniffling and coughing out of the audio, but you’ll probably hear some here and there.
For this new Glorantha Initiation interview, we have two guests, which explains the unusual length of this episode… we welcome Antoni and Konrad!
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.