Episode 35: Secrets of Dorastor

Our Guest

Our guest this episode is Simon Phipp, author of Secrets of Dorastor, Secrets of Heroquesting, and author or contributor on many, many other books.

Joerg sadly isn’t present this time: he was stuck on a highway somewhere in Germany waiting for auto-assistance.

Show Notes

Here are some various things we talk about in this episode:

Getting started playing in Glorantha in 1982… which sounds like 15 years ago but apparently is a lot longer ago

RuneQuest 2 (with Cults of Prax) was Simon’s first game

Bud (from Bud’s RPG Review) recently said that it’s like being born with a silver spoon in your mouth

Watching “World of Sports” and reading “The Iliad” as a kid… as one does

Simon loves RQ2 for its scale and the visceral feeling you get from playing it

Playing in Dorastor because it was nasty and unmapped in the early 80s

The only source was the Paulis Longvale narrative from Cults of Terror