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Greg Stafford’s long-anticipated Gloranthan novel, A Pyre for Gods and Heroes is coming in 2026

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A Pyre for Gods and Heroes

Chaosium founder Greg Stafford‘s long anticipated novel A Pyre for Gods and Heroes, set in his legendary world of Glorantha, will be released in 2026, Chaosium has announced.

The book will initially be released as a special edition for collectors, as part of Chaosium’s 50th anniversary celebrations, and then released in other formats including US Trade paperback, Kindle, e-book, and Audible.

Greg Stafford’s A Pyre for Gods and Heroes will be the first release in a new RuneQuest Fiction line from Chaosium. It is set in Glorantha’s First Age, and chronicles the early career of Harmast Barefoot, one of the fabled setting’s greatest heroes.

The leatherette limited edition will be individually numbered. The cover design, depicting the Gloranthan constellation Orlanth’s Ring, is by Chaosium’s Monika Godyń. Monika’s stunning leatherette design work can be seen on such Chaosium special edition titles as Cthulhu by Gaslight, Call of Cthulhu: Arkham, and the Pendragon Magnum Opus edition.  

Fans who would like to be informed when the special collector limited edition goes on sale can sign up with their email address here to be the first to know!

Discover Chaosium’s RuneQuest Roleplaying Game with Humble Bundle

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Discover the legendary and beloved tabletop RPG RuneQuest, where heroes are forged in the fires of myth and magic. The RuneQuest Roleplaying in Glorantha encore Humble Bundle includes everything you need to treat your group to endless adventure in the rich, storied world of Glorantha. The RuneQuest Starter Set will get you up and running, including rulebooks, adventures, pre-generated characters, and more. The Red Book of Magic is an essential sourcebook packed with new rules for magic and a wizard’s library of spells to add to your campaign. The Pegasus Plateau & Other Stories contains 7 adventures that’ll transport your group to some of Glorantha’s most thrilling locales. Pay what you want for all these books and more, and help support Code.org with your purchase!

The RuneQuest Roleplaying in Glorantha encore Humble Bundle has a retail value of $334 and you can get it all for $18.

RuneQuest Roleplaying in Glorantha encore Humble Bundle

Discover Chaosium’s RuneQuest Roleplaying Game with Humble Bundle

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Discover the legendary and beloved tabletop RPG RuneQuest, where heroes are forged in the fires of myth and magic. The RuneQuest Roleplaying in Glorantha encore Humble Bundle includes everything you need to treat your group to endless adventure in the rich, storied world of Glorantha. The RuneQuest Starter Set will get you up and running, including rulebooks, adventures, pre-generated characters, and more. The Red Book of Magic is an essential sourcebook packed with new rules for magic and a wizard’s library of spells to add to your campaign. The Pegasus Plateau & Other Stories contains 7 adventures that’ll transport your group to some of Glorantha’s most thrilling locales. Pay what you want for all these books and more, and help support Code.org with your purchase!

The RuneQuest Roleplaying in Glorantha encore Humble Bundle has a retail value of $334 and you can get it all for $18.

RuneQuest Roleplaying in Glorantha encore Humble Bundle

Discover Chaosium’s RuneQuest Roleplaying Game with Humble Bundle

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Discover the legendary and beloved tabletop RPG RuneQuest, where heroes are forged in the fires of myth and magic. The RuneQuest Roleplaying in Glorantha encore Humble Bundle includes everything you need to treat your group to endless adventure in the rich, storied world of Glorantha. The RuneQuest Starter Set will get you up and running, including rulebooks, adventures, pre-generated characters, and more. The Red Book of Magic is an essential sourcebook packed with new rules for magic and a wizard’s library of spells to add to your campaign. The Pegasus Plateau & Other Stories contains 7 adventures that’ll transport your group to some of Glorantha’s most thrilling locales. Pay what you want for all these books and more, and help support Code.org with your purchase!

The RuneQuest Roleplaying in Glorantha encore Humble Bundle has a retail value of $334 and you can get it all for $18.

RuneQuest Roleplaying in Glorantha encore Humble Bundle

New for RuneQuest Classic: 1992’s Sun County returns

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RuneQuest Sun County

New for Chaosium‘s RuneQuest Classic series – Sun County is a Gloranthan campaign supplement for RuneQuest’s 3rd edition, first published in 1992. This fully remastered version is available now from DriveThruRPG in three formats:

  • PDF (which of course didn’t exist in 1992)
  • Soft cover with B&W interior, like the original version;
  • and a new special hard cover version with color interior, thanks to talents of Chaosium ‘head of nostalgia’ Rick Meints and community ambassador/guru Nick Brooke.

RPG historian Shannon Appelcline (Designers & Dragons) has written a new foreword for the book. In it he describes how Sun County was “an instant classic” on release. It ushered in a short-lived but brilliant ‘RuneQuest Renaissance” for the game’s third edition, with a further five well-regarded Gloranthan titles released from 1992-1995 under the creative auspices of ‘Rune Czar’ Ken Rolston. Shannon also notes that such is Sun County‘s influence on Gloranthan creators, the themes and settings of the “RuneQuest Renaissance” are still strongly reflected today in Chaosium’s Jonstown Compendium community content program.

Sun County is a Gloranthan campaign supplement for the RuneQuest roleplaying game, containing:

  • Four scenarios ready for play
  • Extensive historical notes on Sun County and its culture
  • Profiles of important persons and peoples of the region
  • Full description of the Yelmalio cult
  • Extensive detailed encounter tables
  • Personal notes and observations of Jaxarte Whyded, Commissioner of the Imperial Census, on his travels through the land
  • Sundry useful and ornamental details of interest to the Gloranthan scholar.
  • A new foreword by RPG Historian Shannon Appelcline

The Chronicles of Future Earth for Runequest 6th Edition

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Mindjammer Press and The Design Mechanism have announced that The Chronicles of Future Earth science-fantasy roleplaying setting is back, in an all-new full-size hardback edition for the 6th edition of the RuneQuest game.

The Earth we know is gone, forgotten in the depths of time. In its place is a world of mystery and danger, steeped in a thousand centuries of history and legend, where humankind brushes shoulders with beings and creatures strange and monstrous. The Venerable Autocracy of Sakara, the greatest – and oldest – of the Springtide Civilisations, rules over half the world, led by an immortal God-Emperor whose very word is law. It’s a world of deep, dark forests, brooding mountains, timeworn ruins haunted with the ghosts of the past and the weird monsters of the future. Arcane sorcerers explore strange dimensions, terrible priests wield powers from godlike extradimensional intelligences, and mighty soldiers forge new histories from the ruins of the past. It’s a time of danger, reckoning, and adventure. Welcome to The Chronicles of Future Earth.

The Chronicles of Future Earth is a 296-page hardback supplement for the RuneQuest 6th edition game, detailing the cultures, peoples, and creatures of the Venerable Autocracy of Sakara, the oldest of the Springtide Civilisations. With extensive histories, maps, and background, rules for ancient treasures and technologies dug from the depths of the earth, and much more, The Chronicles of Future Earth is the first in a new line of RuneQuest supplements produced by Mindjammer Press, providing everything you need to adventure amid exotic civilisations and the ruins of an ancient past in the unimaginably distant future.

The Chronicles of Future Earth will be published by Mindjammer Press and distributed by Modiphius Entertainment Ltd. Scheduled for release Winter 2014/15.