Glorantha Initiation: Bryon, Convention Games, and What’s a Babeester Gor?

In this month’s Glorantha Initiation interview, Ludo talks to Bryon Ross without any Joerg present. Bryon is a long time RuneQuest lover, but he played mostly with the Fantasy Earth setting until the release of the RuneQuest Quickstart in 2017. He is also a retired marine, SCA participant, and regular Chaosium convention gamemaster. You can find Bryon here: Bryon1187 on Twitter Bryon’s YouTube channel with his game reports, RPG-a-day entries, and, more importantly, RuneQuest Glorantha book reviews. Bryon on MeWe Show Notes Among the many things we’re ranting about in this episode, you’ll find: Running convention games for Chaosium’s Cult of Chaos when the RuneQuest Glorantha Quickstart came out (Origins and GenCon first year, Pax Unplugged a few times, etc) Discovering RuneQuest 2nd edition by looking at Apple Lane and/or Snakepipe Hollow on the game store’s shelves The wonders of the RuneQuest hit location chart Collecting a lot of books from the old Gloranthan product lines, and (gasp!) highlighting passages in them Trying to answer the question “what is a Glorantha?” Northern European vision of Bronze Age slowly transitioning to other, more Mediterranean and Mesopotamian mental pictures The Mythology and the Runes are real in Glorantha Explaining Glorantha in a very excited way to new people at conventions The integration between the setting and the mechanics, also featured in other games such as: Behind Enemy Lines Harn (system agnostic setting) and Harnmaster (a crunchy rules system developed to play in Harn) Land of the Rising Sun (Bryon actually told me later that the Lan