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Griffin Mountain: A Complete Wilderness Campaign for RuneQuest

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It's almost hard to believe Griffin Mountain came out 30 years ago, around the time I started gaming. Though it is a dated product, it still stands up against many other products that have come since. An excellent source of material to generate a long lasting campaign in the wild lands of Balazar.

It presents for the GM and players a series of NPC's linked through family, politics ans religion, a basic overview of local politics and religion a few short scenarios and some suggestions for further adventuring. While it isn't quite as good as the campaign material that made Pavis, Borderlands & Big Rubble industry benchmarks, it's still a solid 4/5 for effort, and an old favourite of mine.

Whatever you do, don't buy Avalon Hill's Griffin Island re-hash of this gem, though if the opportunity comes up to purchase the [rather expensively priced] reprint version, it contains a few extra materials that might make it worthwhile to a Glorantha-phile.

For those old enough to remember the Griffin Mt (1980) supplement, don't be fooled by this "conversion" to the AH edition- a poor attempt at cashing in on what was one of the hobbies best campaign/regional source books of the hobbies early days.

You are better off buying a reprint of Griffin Mt. It's cheaper to boot....