RuneQuest's Glorantha setting is 500 pages long, so it's about half the length of Lord of the Rings.

In order to help with character creation, players can get a 'Player pack' pdf, which tells you that the book as written was too confusing for normal players to build a character.

The character creation begins with your …

Trouble at Grogs is one of the best adventures I ever ran, and I've run it many times, in multiple systems.

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I so often hear people giving the golden rule of RPG's as 'remember it's a game, and to just have fun'. I can see that if nobody likes the game then it's not a good game, but the 'have fun' advice, while common enough, doesn't help anyone to do anything.

John Mill discussed the paradox of happiness. If you want to …