Steve PerrinStephen Herbert Perrin (January 22, 1946 – August 13, 2021) was an American game designer and technical writer/, best known for creating the tabletop role-playing gameRuneQuest for Chaosium. Early life and educationPerrin earned a Bachelor of Arts in English from San Francisco State University. Perrin was a founding member in 1966 of the Society for Creative Anachronism (SCA).
Greg Stafford (game designer)Francis Gregory Stafford (February 9, 1948 – October 10, 2018) was an American game designer, publisher, and practitioner of shamanism. Stafford is most famous as the creator of the fantasy world of Glorantha, but he was also a prolific games designer.
Dungeons & DragonsFantasy role-playing gameDungeons & Dragons (commonly abbreviated as D&D or DnD) is a fantasy tabletop role-playing game (TTRPG) originally created and designed by Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson. The game was first published in 1974 by Tactical Studies Rules (TSR). It has been published by Wizards of the Coast, later a subsidiary of Hasbro, since 1997. The game was derived from miniature wargames, with a variation of the 1971 game Chainmail serving as the initial rule system.Steve Henderson (game designer)Steve Henderson (1944 - March 8, 2006) was the co-designer of several role playing game titles and supplements.RuneQuestRuneQuest (commonly abbreviated as RQ) is a fantasy tabletop role-playing game originally designed by Steve Perrin, Ray Turney, Steve Henderson, and Warren James, and set in Greg Stafford's mythical world of Glorantha. It was first published in 1978 by The Chaosium. Beginning in 1984, publication passed between a number of companies, including Avalon Hill, Mongoose Publishing, and The Design Mechanism, before finally returning to Chaosium in 2016.
GloranthaFantasy world created by Greg Stafford GloranthaRuneQuest and HeroQuest locationMap of Glorantha by Christophe Dang Ngoc ChanCreated byGreg StaffordGenreTabletop role-playing game, wargame, fiction, Video gamesIn-universe informationTypeFantasy worldLocationsGenertela, Pamaltela Glorantha is a fantasy world created by Greg Stafford.ChaosiumChaosium Inc. ( kay-OSS-ee-əm) is a publisher of tabletop role-playing games established by Greg Stafford in 1975. Chaosium's major product lines include RuneQuest, set in Stafford's fictional world of Glorantha; Call of Cthulhu, based on the horror fiction stories of H. P. Lovecraft; Pendragon, based on Thomas Mallory's Le Morte d'Arthur; and 7th Sea, "swashbuckling and sorcery" set in a fantasy 17th-century Europe.White Bear and Red MoonWhite Bear and Red Moon is a fantasy board wargame set in the world of Glorantha, created by Greg Stafford and published in 1975. Stafford first tried to sell the game to established publishers, but despite being accepted by three different game companies, each attempt ended in failure; eventually he founded his own game company in 1974, the influential Chaosium, to produce and market the game.RuneQuest MonstersRuneQuest Monsters is a game supplement published by Games Workshop in 1987 for the fantasy role-playing game RuneQuest.
Role-playing gameA role-playing game (sometimes spelled as roleplaying game or abbreviated as RPG) is a game in which players assume and play out the roles of characters in a fictional setting. Players take responsibility for acting out these roles within a narrative, either through literal acting or through a process of structured decision-making regarding character development. Actions taken within many games succeed or fail according to a formal system of rules and guidelines.List of RuneQuest supplementsThis is a list of supplements for the RuneQuest role-playing game.
Game designGame design is the process of creating and shaping the mechanics, systems, rules, and gameplay of a game.*As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.