Manufacturer:
Chaosium
The Smoking Ruin & Other Stories contains ready-to-play adventures for
RuneQuest RPG, taking adventurers across the untamed South Wilds, a region filled with reclusive villagers, ancient ruins, beast folk, troll spirits, undead, wolf-brothers, dinosaurs, monstrous mercenary companies, living trees, surly river spirits, and even more spectacular perils and wonders!
Inside, you'll find:• A highly detailed gazetteer of the dangerous and mysterious region of Glorantha known as the South Wilds. You'll learn the secrets of the Wild Temple, a vast network of megalithic standing stones and a sacred Beast Man shrine, and the Lost Valley, a secluded, seemingly forgotten refuge known to its inhabitants as Long Home.
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The Smoking Ruin - a full-length scenario taking adventurers into the haunted streets of a once-great city in search of a lost artifact.
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Urvantan's Tower - a full-length scenario set in the Lost Valley that pits the adventurers and its Wardens against a monstrous army, with their best hope for victory secreted in the tower of the legendary - and mysteriously absent - sorcerer Urvantan.
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The Grove of Green Rock - a serialized scenario set over the span of several years, giving the adventurers the opportunity to participate in the annual ritual intended to reinvigorate the elves' fading magic in a sacred grove and reestablish their claim to the region.
A copy of RuneQuest RPG: Roleplaying In Glorantha is necessary to use the contents of this book.