Editing Glorantha (section)

===21st century===
In 2000, [[Issaries, Inc.]] published ''[[HeroQuest (role-playing game)|Hero Wars]]'', a new Gloranthan role-playing game unrelated to RuneQuest. Its next iteration in 2003 was named ''[[HeroQuest (role-playing game)|HeroQuest]]'' and later in 2008, [[Moon Design Publications]] published an updated second edition. 2016 saw Moon Design publish ''HeroQuest Glorantha'', completely integrating Glorantha into the rules. 2006 saw ''RuneQuest'' licensed from Issaries by [[Mongoose Publishing]] with a second edition in 2010. In 2012, [[The Design Mechanism]] published the sixth edition of RuneQuest, with no Gloranthan content. Glorantha returned in 2018 with Chaosium publishing ''[[RuneQuest - Roleplaying in Glorantha]]''.

====''Hero Wars'' and ''HeroQuest''====
The ''HeroQuest'' game system, written by [[Robin Laws]] in collaboration with [[Greg Stafford (game designer)|Greg Stafford]], is a complete departure from ''RuneQuest''. The former leverages quick contests and open, almost free-form style of skills and abilities to emulate a mythic structure of play, with rising and falling tensions that contrast with the more naturalistic focus taken by ''RuneQuest''. Owing to this approach, in approach some ''RuneQuest'' fans found it difficult to adjust to ''HeroQuest''. A rewritten second edition was published in Spring 2009 by [[Moon Design Publications]]. It was supported with comprehensive Gloranthan sourcebooks ''Sartar: Kingdom of Heroes'' (2009), ''Sartar Companion'' (2010) and ''Pavis: Gateway to Adventure'' (2012).

====''RuneQuest''====
In 2006, ''RuneQuest'' was licensed to [[Mongoose Publishing]] by [[Issaries, Inc.|Issaries]]. Their new edition of the rules,<ref>{{cite book |last1=Sprange |first1=Matthew Sprange |title=RuneQuest |date=2006 |publisher=Mongoose Publishing |isbn=9781905471102 |edition=1}}</ref> were not set in Glorantha, and required a further supplemement, ''Glorantha – The Second Age''<ref>{{cite book |last1=Laws |first1=Robin |title=Glorantha - The Second Age |date=2006 |publisher=Mongoose Publishing |isbn=9781905471119 |edition=1}}</ref> to play. Written by [[Robin Laws]], it was set in the Second Age of Gloratha's history against the backdrop of The God Learner empire and the Empire of Wyrm's Friend. In this edition, Mongoose produced 17 supplements and adventures based in Glorantha, alongside their generic fantasy background.

A second edition ''Mongoose RuneQuest II'' was published in January 2010, but Mongoose Publishing's licence for Gloranthan material lapsed in May 2011. The ''RuneQuest II'' game system has been retitled "Legend", and contains no Gloranthan material. A new company, The Design Mechanism, was formed by the authors of ''RuneQuest II'', and ownership of the Gloranthan supplements produced for the "RuneQuest II" line was transferred to them (PDF versions continued to be sold). There are close links between The Design Mechanism and Moon Design Publications, with The Design Mechanism founders writing material for both companies. Their new edition of the RuneQuest rules, ''RuneQuest: Sixth Edition'',<ref>{{cite book |last1=Nash |first1=Pete |last2=Whitaker |first2=Lawrence |title=RuneQuest |date=2012 |publisher=The Design Mechanism |isbn=9780987725905 |edition=6 |url=http://thedesignmechanism.com}}</ref> did not have a Gloranthan setting.

In 2018 Chaosium published [[RuneQuest - Roleplaying in Glorantha]]. Wholly set in Glorantha, it advanced the in-game date to 1625, and focuses once again on Dragon Pass. Along with its two slipcase companions,<ref>{{cite book |last1=Richard |first1=Jeff |last2=Stafford |first2=Greg |last3=Durall |first3=Jason |title=RuneQuest - Gamemaster Screen Pack |date=2018 |publisher=Chaosium |location=Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA |isbn=9781568825045}}</ref> it provides a complete overview of this region. Again the village of [[Apple Lane]] in the homeland of Sartar is used as a starting adventure setting, but updated to the year 1625. Two further supplements concentrate on specific areas within Dragon Pass.