| A RuneQuest Adventure | |
|---|---|
 Cover by Jennell Jaquays [lower-alpha 1] | |
| Designers | Rudy Kraft |
| Publishers | Judges Guild |
| Publication | 1979 |
| Genres | Fantasy |
| Systems | Basic Role-Playing |
Broken Tree Inn is a 1979 fantasy tabletop role-playing game adventure for RuneQuest published by Judges Guild. It is a RuneQuest Gateway product and so not set in Glorantha.
Broken Tree Inn contains three separate adventures that takes place in a hazardous area between The Human Empire and the non-human inhabitants of the Tall Seed Forest. [1]
After licensing Traveller from GDW, the next license for Judges Guild with companies other than TSR was for RuneQuest from Chaosium. This production started off focused on adventures, with the first being Broken Tree Inn (1979) by Rudy Kraft, which included material that had not been used in Snake Pipe Hollow (1979) which Chaosium published, although all references to Glorantha were removed by Judges Guild before they published the adventure. [2] : 199
Forrest Johnson reviewed Broken Tree Inn in The Space Gamer No. 30. [1] Johnson commented that "Broken Tree Inn will work for almost any GM, but it could be a dull adventure in the hands of a novice." [1]
On rpg.net reviewer Lev Lafayette argues that Broken Tree Inn provides "plenty of plot opportunities," but is very inefficient in its use of space resulting in "the general lack of substance for the page count." Also of note is the prurient humour with Elven character names such as "Dry Root" and "Long Stem." [3]
Basic Role-Playing (BRP) is a tabletop role-playing game which originated in the RuneQuest fantasy role-playing game. Chaosium released the BRP standalone booklet in 1980 in the boxed set release of the second edition of RuneQuest. Greg Stafford and Lynn Willis are credited as the authors. Chaosium used the percentile skill-based system as the basis for most of their games, including Call of Cthulhu, Stormbringer, and Elfquest.
Chaosium Inc. is a publisher of tabletop role-playing games established by Greg Stafford in 1975. Chaosium's major titles include Call of Cthulhu, based on the horror fiction stories of H. P. Lovecraft, RuneQuest Glorantha, Pendragon, based on Thomas Mallory's Le Morte d'Arthur, and 7th Sea, "swashbuckling and sorcery" set in a fantasy 17th century Europe.
Glorantha is a fantasy world created by Greg Stafford.
RuneQuest is a fantasy tabletop role-playing game originally designed by Steve Perrin, Ray Turney, Steve Henderson, and Warren James, and set in Greg Stafford's mythical world of Glorantha. It was first published in 1978 by The Chaosium. Beginning in 1984, publication passed between a number of companies, including Avalon Hill, Mongoose Publishing, and The Design Mechanism, before finally returning to Chaosium in 2016. RuneQuest is notable for its system, designed around percentile dice and an early implementation of skill rules, which became the basis for numerous other games. There have been several editions of the game.
Francis Gregory Stafford was an American game designer, publisher, and practitioner of shamanism.
Issaries, Inc. was a game publisher incorporated in California in 1999 by Greg Stafford to control and manage products using Stafford's fictional world of Glorantha. It partnered with Moon Design Publications to develop the flagship roleplaying game Hero Wars. In 2003, it acquired the HeroQuest and RuneQuest trademarks from Hasbro, which led to the licensing of a new edition of RuneQuest. The company's last statement was in 2013 and is now listed as Dissolved.
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Land of Ninja is a supplement published under license by Avalon Hill in 1987 for Chaosium's fantasy role-playing game RuneQuest.
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