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Covering the Second Age of Glorantha, this full color sourcebook is the essential guide to the classic RuneQuest setting. This book will place Games Masters and players alike straight into this world, allowing them to visualize the places they visit as no world book has yet done. No settlement will feel like "just another town" in Glorantha, as players travel across the wilderness in the search for Runes, glory and ultimate power.
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Glorantha - The Second Age (RuneQuest (Mongoose Publishing))
Seller: Noble Knight Games, Fitchburg, WI, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Mongoose Publishing RuneQuest (Mongoose Publishing) Glorantha - The Second Age (VG+/NM)Manufacturer: Mongoose PublishingProduct Line: RuneQuest (Mongoose Publishing)Type: HardcoverCode: MGP8101Copyright Date: 2006Author: Robin LawsPage Count: 160Please review the condition and any condition notes for the exact condition of this item. All pictures are stock photos. The condition of the item you will receive is VG+/NM. Our grading system is explained in the terms of sale section of our bookseller page. Please feel free to contact us with any questions. Product Description:This book contains everything you need to launch an epic Runequest campaign set in its classic setting of Glorantha, a world of mythic adventure. Glorantha is a world permeated by magic and shaped by myth. Its heroes achieve power by questing for runes, physical manifestations of the eternal abstract forces that shape its destiny. Eventually they graduate to even more powerful magics, learning to gain power by emulating the deeds of the gods, mastering the arcane formulae of the sorcerous arts, allying with spirits, or achieving meditative awareness of lifeās unknowable secrets. In doing so, they draw on one or more of the mythic Otherworlds surrounding their everyday material world. With the right magic, they can travel to the realms of the gods, become participants in their ancestral myths, and return with wondrous new abilities. Those who fail these daunting tests may be diminished, destroyed, or eternally lost in the mythic realms.Explorers, adventurers and kings arenāt the only ones who wield magical power here. Ordinary people practice their own spells and charms, helping them to feed, clothe and shelter themselves in what would otherwise be a hostile environment.Glorantha is a world of clashing cultures, where good and evil arenāt always easy to sort out. Though cursed with more than its share of tyrants, monsters, and villains, no single one of its cultures maintains a monopoly on virtue. Two warring cultures can be, from their own point of view, equally right ā" or equally ruthless and brutal. Cultures differ on the right way to live, the true events of myth and history, and the very purpose of existence. And thatās just the humans: its inhuman races follow their own alien agendas, as laid out at the beginning of time.In its glorious Second Age, Glorantha is the prize of warring empires. Two empires, more similar than theyād like to admit, vie for ultimate dominance. The God Learner Empire seeks to crack open and the very secrets of the gods, manipulating them to their own ends. The Empire of Wyrmās Friends works to transform its land and people into a gigantic, mystical dragon, which will take flight and reshape the entire world.The Second Age is a time of unprecedented discovery and exploration. For the first time, trade and travel allows the interaction of far-flung cultures. Both Empires innovate feverishly, unveiling new forms of magic, new devices, new modes of perception.Against this backdrop of unfettered progress, dark omens gather. Men have pushed the Gloranthaās eternal laws of myth and magic to the breaking point. How long will it be before the world strikes back at them, punishing their unprecedented hubris? Seller Inventory # 2148252292
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RuneQuest: Glorantha, the Second Age
Seller: Adventures Underground, Richland, WA, U.S.A.
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Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Light shelf wear. Used Game Book. Seller Inventory # 180279
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Glorantha: The Second Age (RuneQuest)
Seller: The Book Bin, Salem, OR, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 160p. Minor rubbing to exterior. Clean and bright inside. Sound binding. Size: 4to - over 9 3/4 in - 12 in Tall. Year: 2006. Seller Inventory # BBS-064078