Much like the Miskatonic Repository for Call of Cthulhu, Seventh Edition, the Jonstown Compendium is a curated platform for user-made content, but for material set in Greg Stafford's mythic universe of Glorantha. It enables creators to sell their own original content for RuneQuest: Roleplaying in Glorantha and HeroQuest Glorantha (Questworlds). This can include original scenarios, background material, cults, mythology, details of NPCs and monsters, and so on, but none of this content should be considered to be ‘canon’, but rather fall under ‘Your Glorantha Will Vary’. This means that there is still scope for the authors to create interesting and useful content that others can bring to their Glorantha-set campaigns.
Runequest: Rings of Glorantha is a short supplement for for RuneQuest: Roleplaying in Glorantha. It is by the same author of GLORANTHA: Trinkets from Dragon Pass.
It is a four page, full colour, 893.15 KB PDF.
Runequest: Rings of Glorantha is decently presented, but it could have been better organised. It needs a slight edit.
Where is it set?
Dragon Pass.
Who do you play?
Adventurers of all types who could come across these rare items.
What do you need?
RuneQuest: Roleplaying in Glorantha. It can also be run using the RuneQuest: Roleplaying in Glorantha – QuickStart Rules and Adventure.
What do you get?
Runequest: Rings of Glorantha is a description of seven rings which might be found in the world of Glorantha. However, it begins by noting that finger rings are rare in Glorantha, where rings are worn through the nose or around the arm. Thus magical rings are even rarer and more so in a world and setting in which magic is common, but magical items to be note rather than just functional.
The seven rings in this supplement each come with publicly sourced image and two short paragraphs, one giving its description and the other its effects when worn. The rings are divided between two types. The first suggests that many copies of it have been produced. For example, the Ring of Green Power is one of the Earth Goddesses’ implements of war and is made of tiny, solidified leaves with an emerald stone. Found very occasionally on former battle fields where the Goddesses’ worshipers fought Chaos, it must be worn on the thumb of the right hand and an axe wielded in the same hand for its power to work. This consists of a magical bonus to damage inflicted on creatures with a high affinity for the Chaos Rune or have one or more Chaotic Features.
The second type is unique, there being only one of its type in existence. For example, Charred Hope is ancient Elvish treasure that survived the Moonburn. It is found in Rist by those opposing the Lunar Empire. When worn, the wearer suffers less damage from spells that inflict damage and are connected to the Moon Rune.
The rings detailed in Runequest: Rings of Glorantha do feel as if their powers fit their descriptions and none of the powers they grant are overly powerful, often working only under certain conditions. However, more description of their histories and their legends would have been welcome as that would potentially make each ring more interesting and more special beyond simply its rarity.
Is it worth your time?
Yes. Runequest: Rings of Glorantha is an inexpensive way of adding more magic to give Player Characters or NPCs minor powers that will enhance their legends.
No. Runequest: Rings of Glorantha is simply too expensive for what you get and the Game Master could create her own with a little bit of research which are just as good.
Maybe. Runequest: Rings of Glorantha is expensive for what you get, but the Game Master might want to add a little variety to the treasure found or perhaps take inspiration from the rings presented here and either develop more of their legend or create new ones of her own.
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