Greg Stafford (1948–2018)

A brilliant and epic role playing game experience that is very impressive. It’s now without flaws and I think more detail, for Example, including a lot of the King Arthur Campaign would have served to set up the setting better. It’s a complex game system and not really like Chaosiums basic role play system if you’re expecting that. The legacy element with you playing your family and the dynastic component are also of great interest and worth a look. It seems overwhelming but with the show more right players this could and would be brilliant. show less

A background source book for the fantasy universe of Glorantha (usually used as a roleplaying setting). Only this isn't a collection of clearly laid out facts. This is a collection of pseudo-historical documents, supposedly from a few centuries after the time where we normally role-play. They're biased, they're incomplete, they're contradictory, and in many ways they're just like doing historical research in the real world. Hard work, but this book has given me more pleasure than any other show more in the last decade, as I try to unravel the puzzles. show less

This wonderfully ambitious & voluminous work does long-awaited justice to the spectacular scope & integrity of Greg Stafford's extraordinary world Glorantha, which I believe knows only one potential rival: Tolkien's Middle Earth.

I love the BRP system but while this book makes a decent introduction to the system, without further supplements to work off of it's pretty much worthless to run an actual game with.