Into the Troll Realms
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| Troll Adventures and Encounters for RuneQuest | |
|---|---|
 Cover art by Steve Purcell, 1988 | |
| Designers | |
| Publishers | Avalon Hill |
| Publication | 1988 |
| Genres | Fantasy |
| Systems | Basic Role-Playing |
| ISBN | 978-0911605785 |
Into the Troll Realms, subtitled "Troll Adventures and Encounters for RuneQuest" is a supplement that includes adventures and material that involve interactions with trolls, published under license by Avalon Hill in 1988 for Chaosium's fantasy role-playing game RuneQuest
Into the Troll Realms includes three RuneQuest scenarios in which the player characters must interact with trolls:[1]
- "Skyfall Lake": In order to gain permission to travel through troll territory in order to complete a business transaction, the player characters must first enter into a drinking contest with some trolls.
- "Grubfarm": The player characters are hired to go to the troll-controlled Grubfarm and either negotiate with the trolls for some royal jelly, or raid the farm for the jelly.
- "Flying Trollkin": A friend of the player characters is kidnapped by several flying trollkin, and the player characters only have two days to rescue the victim.
The book also includes three small encounters that can be played on their own or integrated into the larger adventures, as well as the rules to the game "Trollball"; this material originally appeared in Chaosium's 1982 publication Trollpak.[2]
Publication history
Chaosium originally published the fantasy role-playing game Runequest in 1978 set in the fictional world of Glorantha, and quickly followed this with a second edition the following year. In an attempt to increase distribution and marketing of Runequest, Chaosium made a deal with game giant Avalon Hill in 1984 to publish the third edition of RuneQuest. Under the agreement, Avalon Hill took ownership of the trademark for RuneQuest, but Chaosium did not include the setting of Glorantha in the license unless the content was either created or approved by Chaosium staff.[3]: 222 If Chaosium did not supply Glorantha material, Avalon Hill used a generic setting called "Fantasy Earth".
Into the Troll Realms is one of the Glorantha-based supplements supplied by Chaosium but published by Avalon Hill in 1988, a 48-page softcover book written by Greg Stafford and Sandy Petersen, with interior art by Daniel Brererton, cartography by Charlie Krank, and cover art by Steve Purcell.[1]
