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Cults of RuneQuest: The Lightbringers Review

Dec 9, 2023

Game Title: Cults of RuneQuest – The Lightbringers

Authors: Greg Stafford with Jeff Richard

Artists: Loïc Muzy, Agathe Pitié, Katrin Dirim, Antonia Doncheva, Andrey Fetisov, Ossi Hiekkala, Roman Kisyov, Francesca Baerald, and Matt Ryan

Year: 2023

Genre: RuneQuest sourcebook featuring The Lightbringers pantheon of deities

Pages: 162 pages

MSRP: $39.99 for the hardcover (including the free PDF if ordering from Chaosium Inc) or $19.99 in PDF alone at DriveThruRPG

I sit down to share my thoughts about the first mythos/pantheon volume in the Cults of RuneQuest series, The Lightbringers, from Chaosium Inc. The 162 page hardcover is chock full of beautiful art and useful gaming material for players and Game Masters aiming to bring this family of deities to their gaming table.

Cults of RuneQuest The Lightbringers Review

SUMMARY

The Lightbringers volume of Cults of Runequest is overflowing with stellar artwork and useful and interesting details and game material for just about anyone's RuneQuest campaign. This is the sort of deities book all fantasy roleplaying games should strive for in their systems. I do wish the paper stock was a touch heavier and I'm not sure why this is being marketed to non-gamers but outside of those, this is a wonderful book and a must have if you play or run RuneQuest.

Jeff McAleer

Founder/Editor-in-chief of The Gaming Gang website and host of The Gaming Gang Dispatch and other TGG media for fifteen years, Jeff takes on any and all sorts of games but is especially ready to tackle roleplaying games and strategy games. He's been involved with the hobby since he was just a wee grade school lad, over four decades ago.