RuneQuest Glorantha Scenario by Jonstown Compendium / Chaosium
ULERIA LOVES YOU
Uleria Loves You is a 200-page adventure for RuneQuest: Roleplaying in Glorantha set in the scenic hamlet of Apple Lane during the Uleria Open Air festival. Bring your friends, sleep under the stars, and enjoy the festival shenanigans. Flirting is optional but encouraged. Celebrate Uleria, drink, dance and make merry!
Revelers getting into the spirit of things can help the overwhelmed festival staff, romance revolutionaries, pursue rampaging piglets, deal with Eurmali clowns, join the fertility euphoria, exorcise mean kill-ghosts, stand in line, brawl your way into the heroplane, make new friends and enemies, discuss the pressures of masculinity, collect flower crowns and hearts, overcome war trauma, keep the priestess sober, get a guided tour of the Uleria temple, headbang to berserker music, enjoy Heortling as a second language, laugh at the puppet play, win the dance contest, get involved in teen drama, make the deal of a lifetime, chase fare dodgers and troublemakers, bathe your way to enlightenment, welcome the Yelmalian weirdo, join the lewd costume theater play, become illuminated by accident, pillow-fight your rivals, and have the festival experience of your life!
Solve the mystery or don’t, fulfil your personal goals or spend the festival indulging your every whim. What is success, after all? Isn’t it just to have a great time? As long as you’ve got love in your heart, you’ll be fine. And if you don’t, this festival is sure to rekindle it!
Uleria Loves You is part festive ritual, part adventure mystery, and all about the roleplaying experience. There are personal subplots to explore, options to play as organizers or visitors, and enough events to satisfy the most festivity-minded adventurers. If you prefer a touch of darkness with your whimsy, we have included GrimDark options that touch on the aftermath and realities of war and occupation in contemporary Sartar.
Will the players’ goal be to have fun and forget about the troubles of the world? Try to keep things running smoothly despite raunchy revelers? Or perhaps get their own business done against the scenic backdrop of a Uleria festival? The choice is yours!
Written with the gamemaster in mind, this book includes lots of tips to help bring Glorantha to life, as well as strategies to keep track of all the moving parts of the plot, suggestions for how to onboard both new and experienced adventure parties, narrative prompts to help with improvisation, guides to how to play the important NPC characters, multiple alternative paths for groups that go off the rails, color coded clues, and plenty of helpful handouts.
The source material in this book is compatible with the Uleria information already published in Gods of Glorantha: The Earth Goddesses. For more in-depth information about Uleria, her cult, and the people who worship her, see our companion module, Three Doors to Your Heart.
If you enjoyed our previous book Life and Traditions Under the Sun Dome, rest assured that this adventure is filled with the same attention to detail, whimsical facts, cultural deep dives, and love for the source material.
In this 200-page book you will find:
One main adventure with a central mystery, where the players can be either organizers or festival goers, local to Apple Lane or travelers from far abroad.
Options for extending this adventure into a mini campaign if you play as local Apple Lane luminaries or helpful organizers, with suggestions on how to best manage the preparations, planning meetings in the Uleria temple, and tables to roll on to see how successful the festival is at attracting visitors.
Five different subplot adventures to add to the experience for your players and give them personal goals to fulfil during the festival.
A detailed description of how the various locations in Apple Lane look during the festival week, the events scheduled there, and which non-player characters frequent them.
The full festival week described day by day, with events, moods, complications and clues.
A guide to Heortling culture to help add depth to the events, the role of children and youths have in society, how to dress for the festival, the complicated feelings many have towards the Lunar Empire, common vocabulary and slang, and various stories and legends.
Tips for how the adventure can be integrated with existing Apple Lane content, especially the RQ Gamemaster Screen Pack Adventures.
Suggestions for how to adapt the festival to different times and settings.
Advice on how this adventure can be used as backdrop to a more political campaign.
A simple guide to heroforming, the proximate holy realm, ritual heroquests, and rules for how to handle them in game.
A random weather table and rules to replicate that true festival experience, whether it be Orlanth’s wrath, Ernaldan mud, or Yelmic heatstroke. Will your characters be drenched, bemuddled, or get sunburned in places the sun rarely sees?
Interesting festival rumors to add local color and future plot points.
A multitude of handouts including a full color map of Apple Lane during the festival, an event program to hand out to the players, cards to keep track of player and group subplots, an event flowchart with checkboxes to keep track of what has happened, and a relationship diagram of the main non-player characters.
Uleria Loves You is available through DriveThruRPG in PDF.
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