A game to learn the QuestWorlds rules.
QuestWorlds is a traditional but rules-light rpg. It is (very) similar to HeroQuest.
The QuestWorlds rules are not published, but available as a reference document in development at
https://github.com/ChaosiumInc/QuestWorlds
The adventure was originally written for HeroQuest by Matt Ryan. It is set in a variant Glorantha, where the players are petty gods going on the Lightbringers' Quest on Orlanth's orders.
Once upon a time the gods lived in harmony, each a member of the Celestial Court. There were thousands of gods that stood in various rankings of status and power: Old Gods, Young Gods, and least of all Petty Gods.
The Sun God was Emperor of the Celestial Court, and ruled in a Golden Age of peace and prosperity. The Storm God was not pleased at his station and challenged the Sun God to a duel. In his arrogance he slew the Sun God and usurped leadership of the Celestial Court. A time of great darkness came, during which a trio of evil gods conspired to create an entity as powerful as any of the Old Gods. The Devil was thus born, a truly evil god that bred an army of chaos monsters to invade the world.
The Storm God summoned his army of Old, Young, and Petty Gods and met the Devil and his minions on many battlefields. The Devil almost destroyed the world, but at the last moment the gods prevailed, although their final victory left the land blasted and damaged, a world more ruined than whole. The mountain citadel of the gods had been destroyed and many gods had died. Even in those areas where green grass still grew, chaos monsters who survived the war roamed at will. The Young Gods divided and fought each other, squabbling over insignificant injustices. Though saved from the Devil, the world would soon perish unless the Sun God returned.
The Storm God has a plan. He summons all the gods left alive to Victory Hill, the site of the final battle against the Devil, and asks for volunteers for a dangerous quest. The volunteers must descend into the Underworld and return with the Sun God; they must save what is left of the world by bringing back the light of the sun.
You are those volunteers.
