"Everyone has a wild beast within them".
This book is aimed at anyone who is interested in the Hsunchen, the shape-changing totem animal peoples of the world of Glorantha, the setting for the RuneQuest role-playing game. The Hsunchen inhabit the fringes of Gloranthan geography and include some of the most peculiar and fascinating peoples in this world. Because they mostly live far away from mainstream society they are often obscure and poorly documented, and perhaps rarely encountered in many RuneQuest games. This book is here to put that right!
Twenty-two Hsunchen tribes living in the western and central parts of the continent of Genertela are described across 170 pages, alongside extensive information regarding their culture, myth, technology, magic and more.
The tribes are: skunk, black owl, mammoth, badger, raccoon, bear, bobcat, wolverine, reindeer, yellow quill porcupine, moose, mountain goat, deer, beaver, sun horse, wolf, opossum, boar, elk, lion, puma and gopher.
The book explains how to create a Hsunchen adventurer, gives tips on using them as adventurers or as non-player characters, ideas for high-level campaigns, and even information on Hsunchen Heroquesting!
Appendices provide the author's notes, answers to Hsunchen Q&A, a spells index, Hsunchen mega-list and more.
- from the publisher's blurb