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RuneQuest - GameMaster Screen Pack
Guide your players into a World of Adventure!
The RuneQuest Gamemaster Screen Pack is an essential play aid for RuneQuest: Roleplaying in Glorantha gamemasters, packed with useful references and materials to launch any new campaign, or add to an existing one.
The gamemaster screen itself is a landscape, full-color, four-panel cardboard screen, 34 inches wide and 8.5 inches tall, with a gorgeous illustration of the famed Gods Wall facing the players, and all manner of important references and summaries of key rules on the gamemaster’s side.
Four-Part GM Screen Projection
Included with the screen is a full-color, 128-page Adventures Book. The first half of this book is a description of the Colymar tribal lands, led by Queen Leika Blackspear, detailing the fortress city of Clearwine and its important denizens. Nearby is Apple Lane, a small village beset with huge problems. Its residents and surroundings are described in detail, making it a perfect location for gamemasters to base RuneQuest campaigns in, establishing the adventurers in a renowned yet manageable hamlet with ample opportunity for great adventure.
Apple Lane Map
The latter half of the Adventures Book includes three ready-to-play scenarios set in Apple Lane and lands nearby. The first adventure, Defending Apple Lane, pits the adventurers against a savage band of fearsome raiders. Cattle Raid, the second adventure, sends the adventurers to protect a sacred herd of cattle, a seemingly simple task that grows all-too-complex when tribal politics come into play. The last of these adventures, The Dragon of the Thunder Hills, involves dragon magic and old ghosts. Finally, a four-page group of rumors gives ample grist for potential adventure inspiration, and two pages of adventure seeds are ready to be fleshed out into full adventures or run as interesting interludes.
Fire Season Calendar
Additional materials include a 20-page reference booklet full of charts and references for ease of play, a 16-page full-color Gloranthan calendar, seven ready-to-play pregenerated adventurer characters, regular and deluxe adventurer sheets, squad and a non-player character sheets, as well as full-color fold-out maps of Apple Lane, Clearwine, Dragon Pass, and the world of Glorantha itself.
This package contains the following:
A beautiful four-panel full-color gamemaster's screen
128-page full-colour adventure book
20-page full-colour reference booklet
16-page full-colour Gloranthan calendar
Amazing full-colour maps (some fold-out) - Apple Lane, Clearwine, Colymar Tribes, Dragon Pass, South Peloria
"Artisan" (full colour) and regular (suitable for B&W printing) RuneQuest adventurer sheets
Non-player character and squad character sheets
The RuneQuest Gamemaster Screen Pack is an essential play aid for RuneQuest: Roleplaying in Glorantha gamemasters, packed with useful references and materials to launch any new campaign, or add to an existing one.
The gamemaster screen itself is a landscape, full-color, four-panel cardboard screen, 34 inches wide and 8.5 inches tall, with a gorgeous illustration of the famed Gods Wall facing the players, and all manner of important references and summaries of key rules on the gamemaster’s side.
Four-Part GM Screen Projection
Included with the screen is a full-color, 128-page Adventures Book. The first half of this book is a description of the Colymar tribal lands, led by Queen Leika Blackspear, detailing the fortress city of Clearwine and its important denizens. Nearby is Apple Lane, a small village beset with huge problems. Its residents and surroundings are described in detail, making it a perfect location for gamemasters to base RuneQuest campaigns in, establishing the adventurers in a renowned yet manageable hamlet with ample opportunity for great adventure.
Apple Lane Map
The latter half of the Adventures Book includes three ready-to-play scenarios set in Apple Lane and lands nearby. The first adventure, Defending Apple Lane, pits the adventurers against a savage band of fearsome raiders. Cattle Raid, the second adventure, sends the adventurers to protect a sacred herd of cattle, a seemingly simple task that grows all-too-complex when tribal politics come into play. The last of these adventures, The Dragon of the Thunder Hills, involves dragon magic and old ghosts. Finally, a four-page group of rumors gives ample grist for potential adventure inspiration, and two pages of adventure seeds are ready to be fleshed out into full adventures or run as interesting interludes.
Fire Season Calendar
Additional materials include a 20-page reference booklet full of charts and references for ease of play, a 16-page full-color Gloranthan calendar, seven ready-to-play pregenerated adventurer characters, regular and deluxe adventurer sheets, squad and a non-player character sheets, as well as full-color fold-out maps of Apple Lane, Clearwine, Dragon Pass, and the world of Glorantha itself.
This package contains the following:
A beautiful four-panel full-color gamemaster's screen
128-page full-colour adventure book
20-page full-colour reference booklet
16-page full-colour Gloranthan calendar
Amazing full-colour maps (some fold-out) - Apple Lane, Clearwine, Colymar Tribes, Dragon Pass, South Peloria
"Artisan" (full colour) and regular (suitable for B&W printing) RuneQuest adventurer sheets
Non-player character and squad character sheets
160 pages, Paperback
First published October 10, 2018
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December 23, 2022
Quality screen in the correct configuration (ie, all the panels are in landscape orientation), plus an extensive slab of adventure material. Full review: https://refereeingandreflection.wordp...
January 5, 2023
The quality of the latest edition of Runequest products is excellent and this mixture of game aids and scenarios is no exception. You get good value for your cash: a fold out screen packed with tables (hard on my old eyes, I must admit), a reference booklet of the same, a really useful calendar of seasons and holy days, some pre-generated PCs (not as many or as decorative as the Starter Set, but this was released several years ago, do that's fine), a ton of maps, and a scenario book.
The book is comprised of details of the Colamyr tribe of Sartar, with details of history, traditions, and Clearwine, as well as powerful NPCs. It then also details a great sandbox location around Clearwine and western Sartar, as well as the infamous Apple Lane (which also features in the Starter Set). There's a chapter on rune metals and magical properties, tables of rumors and adventure hooks, and 3 scenarios.
The scenarios are well written. The first is a defence against a raid on Apple Lane (with a very wild west/ seven samurai feel). The second is guarding against a cattle raid. The third involves tracking down and fighting a dream dragon! Agreeably the PCs are encouraged to nose around the region for items or advice that will aid the potential suicide mission, but still seemed a tough task for the beginners that this book is likely to be used for.
I liked the scenarios, the detail, and the art. The location maps were a little inconsistent and some lacked scale. Appreciate RQ is mostly 'theatre of the mind' but with some battles and attacks (e.g dragon breath weapon, misfile fire and range) it becomes useful to have scales on maps. I was also surprised how combat orientated all 3 scenarios were, given the lethality of combat in the game (although retreat options are described). I suppose as the first scenarios available for RQ:G maybe they wanted tried and tested formats, as opposed to the more creative Pegasus Plateau and Smoking Ruins released later.
Irrespective of that minor point, this really is a superb product. Great value in every aspect. 5 stars.
The book is comprised of details of the Colamyr tribe of Sartar, with details of history, traditions, and Clearwine, as well as powerful NPCs. It then also details a great sandbox location around Clearwine and western Sartar, as well as the infamous Apple Lane (which also features in the Starter Set). There's a chapter on rune metals and magical properties, tables of rumors and adventure hooks, and 3 scenarios.
The scenarios are well written. The first is a defence against a raid on Apple Lane (with a very wild west/ seven samurai feel). The second is guarding against a cattle raid. The third involves tracking down and fighting a dream dragon! Agreeably the PCs are encouraged to nose around the region for items or advice that will aid the potential suicide mission, but still seemed a tough task for the beginners that this book is likely to be used for.
I liked the scenarios, the detail, and the art. The location maps were a little inconsistent and some lacked scale. Appreciate RQ is mostly 'theatre of the mind' but with some battles and attacks (e.g dragon breath weapon, misfile fire and range) it becomes useful to have scales on maps. I was also surprised how combat orientated all 3 scenarios were, given the lethality of combat in the game (although retreat options are described). I suppose as the first scenarios available for RQ:G maybe they wanted tried and tested formats, as opposed to the more creative Pegasus Plateau and Smoking Ruins released later.
Irrespective of that minor point, this really is a superb product. Great value in every aspect. 5 stars.
September 17, 2020
It feels like the Gamemaster Adventure Book is the heart of this package, and that's a workmanlike book, containing a good description of the default peoples for RQ:G, plus a few adventures all in the same style that flesh out the standard area.
But it turns out that it's the rest of the pack that's extraordinary: a series of gorgeous maps, a breathtaking character sheet, a horizontal style GM screen (a style that I think Chaosium themselves trailblazed in the '90s, albeit after a crenellated screen from Judges Guild a decade earlier) that shows Glorantha's famous God's Wall in full color, and a full color calendar. It all not only shows off the modern Chaosium's high level of design, but also the capabilities of modern printing.
But it turns out that it's the rest of the pack that's extraordinary: a series of gorgeous maps, a breathtaking character sheet, a horizontal style GM screen (a style that I think Chaosium themselves trailblazed in the '90s, albeit after a crenellated screen from Judges Guild a decade earlier) that shows Glorantha's famous God's Wall in full color, and a full color calendar. It all not only shows off the modern Chaosium's high level of design, but also the capabilities of modern printing.
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