Creating a RuneQuest Adventurer

Ready to start playing RuneQuest? The first thing you need to do is create your adventurer. Here’s a helpful, step-by-step guide to creating a RuneQuest adventurer for the first time.

Note: If this is your first experience of RuneQuest and your goal is just to jump in and play right away, we have provided seven pregenerated adventurers appearing on pages 84–97 of the RuneQuest core rulebook, or downloadable here: [suggest adding a download of the seven pregens as a single file here]

What you will need

RQ Character Sheet

The RuneQuest: Roleplaying in Glorantha Core Rulebook: you can buy it here.
A blank adventurer sheet; they can be downloaded here If you are working digitally, we recommend the fillable PDF character sheet on the left.
Dice: particularly a D100 (two D10s or one D10 and one “tens” D100), 3D6, and a d20.
Blank paper: to make notes, just in case.

General Steps

Your gamemaster may have some guidelines for adventurer creation. Find out if there are any suggestions or restrictions based on the type of campaign you’ll be playing.

There are additional rules for more or less experienced adventurers, or relatives (page 25), but your first one should be following the standard process.

The Steps

Now we are ready to create a RuneQuest Adventurer! Let's walk through the steps!

First Step - Homeland