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The RuneQuest: Glorantha Bestiary contains almost 200 creatures native to the world of Glorantha or in the spirit worlds adjacent to it. These creatures range from weak to apocalyptically powerful, allowing a RuneQuest gamemaster to choose the right creature to suit any encounter or need. Entries are divided into Elder Races, creatures of Chaos, monsters, natural animals, dinosaurs, giant or unusual insects, spirit entities, summoned magical beings, and noteworthy plant types. Another chapter, Terrors, describes the most horrific and powerful entities walking the world of Glorantha, such as the enormous Crimson Bat, the three-bodied Chaos horror Cwim, the Chaos gaggle, and the Fiend of Cacodemon. Each entry is presented in the same format as player adventurers, including attributes, hit locations and armor, weapons and special attacks, skills, languages, magic, and more. Sections in each entry include Myths and History, Subtypes, Description, Culture, Government, Religion, Region of Origin, and more, with adventuring races expanded in considerable detail. Let your players be Trolls, Centaurs, or a different Intelligent Races! Non-human species detailed for use as player character adventurers, ranging from multiple types of elves, dwarfs, centaurs, dark trolls and great trolls, all the way to unique Gloranthan species such as intelligent baboons and ducks, dragonewts, Men-and-a-half, trollkin, and Wolfbrothers, complete with their professions, cults, and magic. Front Cover Credits Table of Contents Introduction Creature Hit Locations Distribution Maps The Elder Races Aldryami Baboons Beast Men Dragonewts Giants Gorillas Maidstone Archers Men-and-a-half Morokanth Mostali Newtlings Triolini Tusk Riders Uz Wind Children Wolfbrothers Chaos Monsters Broos Bullsitches Dancers in Darkness Dragonsnails Ghouls Gorp Harpies Huan To Jack O'Bears Krarshtkids Lesser Hydras Ogres Scorpion Men Stoorworms Vampires Walktapi Monsters Brollachans Cliff Toads Demi-Birds Dinosaurs True Dragons Gargoyles Giant Eels Giant Turtles Griffins Hippogriffs Revenants Rock Lizards Skeletons Sky Bulls Unicorns Water Lizards Wyrms Wyverns Zombies Giant Arthropods Giant Antlions Giant Beetles Giant Centipedes Giant Crabs Giant Dragonfly Giant Honeybees Giant Praying Mantises Giant Solpugids Giant Spiders Giant Wasps Giant Ice Worms Animals Bears Bloodbirds Cattle Crocodiles Deer Dogs Giant Cranes Horses Hyena King Condors Leaping Bear Lions Loper Mammoth Mastodons Pig Dogs Praxian Riding Animals Pumas Rubble Runners Saber-toothed Cats Shadowcats Snakes Titanotheres Tuskers Vrok Hawks Wild Boars Wolves Yaks Spirits Animal Spirits Demons Disease Spirits Healing Spirits Nyctalopes Plant Spirits Genius Loci Embodied Spirits Terrors The Crimson Bat Cwim Chaos Gaggle Fiends of Cacodemon Flora Alphabetical Listing of Entries Character Sheet Back Cover Welcome to Glorantha. It is a fantasy world unlike any other--a mythic world of mortals and gods, myths and cults, spirits and elementals, monsters and heroes. Magic permeates all of existence, and the bonds between tribe, clan, and family are as important as are the relationships between mortals and the gods they worship. Beyond the gods and spirits are the Runes that make and define reality--those who master the Runes can shape the world. This is Glorantha, the world of RuneQuest, and the most acclaimed fantasy RPG setting of all time. The gods now call upon mortal adventurers to become Heroes and fight for the world's survival. It is your time for adventure! This new edition of RuneQuest marks a triumphant return of the setting and system that have inspired gamers across the world for decades. This definitive edition of RuneQuest is suitable for beginning and experienced gamers alike, as well as Glorantha fans new and old RuneQuest: Roleplaying in Glorantha is an all-new edition of one of the worlds most influential and acclaimed fantasy roleplaying games. First appearing almost 40 years ago, RuneQuest is as dynamic and vital as ever. This all-new, deluxe edition introduces RuneQuest and its setting of Glorantha to new players everywhere. The core rules of RuneQuest are essential for players and gamemasters, as they contain all the rules for character creation, starting homelands, background history, professions, skills, starting Runes and magic, and the cults and gods whose influence will define your characters activities. Further, the rules for character advancement are contained here, for the times between adventures.