Balastor's Barracks
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- Steve Henderson
- Warren James
- Steve Perrin
- 1978 softback
- 1983 in Big Rubble
- 1999 in Pavis & Big Rubble
- 2016 Classic Edition softback & PDF
- 2019 in Classic Edition Big Rubble PDF
- 2020 Classic edition POD
- 2020 in Classic Edition Big Rubble POD
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| Publishers | Chaosium |
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| Genres | Fantasy |
| Systems | RuneQuest |
Balastor's Barracks is a tabletop role-playing game adventure for RuneQuest, originally published by Chaosium in 1978. Set in Greg Stafford's world of Glorantha, against the backdrop of an ancient ruined city, the adventurers search for a lost artifact.[1]
As RuneQuest Scenario Pack 1, it was the first published adventure for RuneQuest in 1978. In 1983, a revised version appeared in the Big Rubble: The Deadly City boxed set,[1] which set the adventure in the Griffin Gate area of the Big Rubble, along with other related scenarios. It was republished in 1999 by Moon Design Publications in Gloranthan Classics Volume I – Pavis & Big Rubble .[2] The original edition was republished in 2016 in softcover and PDF format and included in the RuneQuest Old School Resource Pack as part of Chaosium's RuneQuest: Classic Edition Kickstarter.[3] with a POD edition in 2020.[4] Likewise, a Classic Edition of Big Rubble including Balastor's Barracks was republished in 2019, with a POD edition in 2020.
Contents
Originally published as a 24-page booklet with a cardstock cover. The booklet is divided into an introductory section, two maps, and a description of 35 rooms containing over 60 monsters who seem to have no relationship with each other or the environment.[5] The revised version in Big Rubble shrank it to 14 pages, mainly cleaning up the layout, and reducing the number of monsters to around 45.