Is Glorantha going to be portrayed differently in HeroQuest?
Any game must by its very nature alter the way it presents the background world. RuneQuest did an excellent job of portraying the “nitty gritty” realism of parts of Glorantha. King of Dragon Pass portrays the culture and religion of the Heortling peoples better than we could have hoped. Hero Wars was a great leap forward in accurately representing Glorantha in game terms, but even it had problems representing some aspects of magic and the Otherworld. HeroQuest goes a step farther. Its simplified rules system actually makes it easier to represent Glorantha, although of course at a slightly different “focus” than its predecessor. Two years of working with the game system have enabled us to discover more about Glorantha and how it works. It is by far the best game representation of Glorantha ever published, probably the best that could ever be published.
