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The God Learners

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A podcast about gaming in Glorantha in which we cover news and discuss topics about RuneQuest, QuestWorlds, and other related games such as 13th Age Glorantha, King of Dragon Pass, Six Ages, The Gods War, or Khan of Khans.
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Episodes

Episode 15: People of Glorantha: The Tusk Riders

Our guest for this episode is Dom Twist of the Beer With Teeth writers’ (and gamers’) collective, known for his contributions both in a couple of Chaosium publications (Pegasus Plateau‘s Crimson Petals, and Weapon and...

Sep 03, 20221 hr 33 min

Episode 14: Nomad Gods (Part 2)

In Episode 14, the God Learner podcast returns to its exploration of the Nomad Gods, with David Scott from Chaosium. News The “Write Your First Adventure” summer workshop has started, with a RuneQuest course by...

Jul 30, 20221 hr 58 min

Episode 13: Practical Ancient Warfare

Our guest for episode 13 is Nikolas Lloyd, the multi-talented host of the Lindybeige YouTube channel. News Jörg mentions Eternal Convention at Castle Stahleck in Bacharach, Germany, and the UK Game Expo which both just...

Jul 03, 20221 hr 35 min

Episode 12: People of Glorantha: The Aldryami

Shannon Appelcline is our guest for the 12th episode. Shannon tells us about his entry into the roleplaying genre, which features the typical games of the early eighties. RuneQuest became one of his main systems...

Jun 05, 20221 hr 37 min

Episode 10: Out of the Suitcase

Ludo and Joerg welcome Chaosium president Rick Meints to the God Learners podcast! We chat about news such as Pavisite fanzines, ChaosiumCon, RuneQuest streaming, and podcasts. We then talk about Rick's origin story, his "Index to Glorantha" book, foreign licensees, magazines, HeroQuest rules, LARPing, board games, collector items, and more!

Apr 02, 20221 hr 27 min

Episode 9: Nomad Gods (Part 1)

We apologize for the tardiness on this episode: we are not used to Earth’s weird calendar where one month is surprisingly shorter than the others. Plus, Ludovic was busy with work and with writing two...

Mar 09, 20221 hr 53 min

Episode 8: The Early Days of Glorantha (Part 1)

We are joined on this trip down memory lane by Doc Cowie, Doc sums up his credits as “40 years RuneQuest player, published one scenario”. Ludo also gets Doc to talk about his custom-made bronze...

Jan 30, 202253 min

Episode 7: Adventures in Jonstown

Ludo and Jörg are joined by Diana Probst, aka Berra from Beer With Teeth, bravely entering a realm of unreal time before sunrise. News Episode 2 of our Initiation to Glorantha series was released, and...

Jan 07, 20221 hr 44 min

Episode 6: Gamemastering RuneQuest

This topic was actually suggested to us by our guests Jon Webb and Neil Gibson. Jon Webb is the initiator and an author of the four volumes of the Sandheart series, following the challenges of...

Dec 01, 20211 hr 48 min

Glorantha Initiation: Ludovic

This is the inaugural episode of the Glorantha Initiation series, where we talk to members of the tribe who recently joined the God Learner studies. The God Learner Podcast wants to investigate how people comparatively...

Nov 20, 202145 min

Episode 5: The Travels of Biturian Varosh (Part 3)

Our guest for this episode is Drew Baker, author of a series of products on the Jonstown Compendium, including the QAD (Quick and Dirty) series (available as the omnibus edition “Pimper’s Block“), the Rubble Redux...

Nov 07, 20211 hr 34 min

Episode 4: Writing Adventures in Glorantha

This episode’s guests are Beer with Teeth, at time in character: Erin (aka Varanis, a noble of Sartar lineage) Dom (aka Rajar, a huge Storm Bull axe fighter) Diana (aka Berra, a tiny Humakti warrior)...

Oct 05, 20211 hr 41 min

Episode 3: Passions in RuneQuest

Our guest this (long!) episode is David Scott, who wears a number of Chaosium hats – among others convention presence, rules Q&A, and the web archives. David talks about his work on the Well of...

Sep 04, 20211 hr 57 min

Episode 2: On the Road

Returning to our tower for our second episode of the God Learners Podcast, we meet Austin Conrad, the author and publisher of the Myth of the Month on Jonstown Compendium aka Akhelas or Crel. We...

Jul 31, 20211 hr 36 min

Episode 1: A Visit to the Black Alynx

For our first episode of the God Learners Podcast we are visiting Neil Gibson, proprietor of the Black Alynx inn in the seedier parts of Jonstown. Neil’s podcast “Tales of the Black Alynx” had a...

Jul 02, 20211 hr 4 min

Interlude

In this short interlude, Joerg and Ludovic announce their return to Gloranthan podcasting with a new name! Shortly after this airs, all of our website and social media presence will migrate to a new place....

Jun 14, 20213 min

Wind Words 8: Glorantha has Talent, and Contests

Intro Episode 8 airs with a few weeks delay compared to our usual rhythm, as we wanted to feature our Glorantha Has Talent?-contest in this episode. We found the wait worth the while, and so...

Oct 21, 20201 hr 48 min

Wind Words 7: Plenty of Valleys

Well, this is something Ludo has been looking forward to since the release of The Valley of Plenty, To be honest, so have we all, and the Carpenters were as wonderful as we thought they...

Sep 05, 20201 hr 39 min

Wind Words 6: The Travels of Biturian Varosh (Part 2)

Glorantha Has Talent? 00:40 We announce our contest for audio takes on Glorantha. A Ludoch Story 02;10 Another example (after last episode’s joke at the end of the podcast) of how such a 3 minute...

Aug 09, 20201 hr 49 min

Wind Words 5: Cattle Raid!

In this fifth episode of Wind Words, we come back to Sartar to look at every Heortling’s favourite past time: cattle raiding. Why do they like cattle so much around here that they need to...

Jul 04, 20201 hr 40 min
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