''Broken Tree Inn'' is a 1979 fantasy

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adventure for ''

RuneQuest ''RuneQuest'' (commonly abbreviated as RQ) is a fantasy tabletop role-playing game originally designed by Steve Perrin, Ray Turney, Steve Henderson, and Warren James, and set in Greg Stafford's mythical world of Glorantha. It was first publis ...

'' published by

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. It is a RuneQuest Gateway product and so not set in Glorantha.

Plot summary

''Broken Tree Inn'' contains three separate adventures that takes place in a dangerous border area between The Human Empire and the non-human inhabitants of the Tall Seed Forest.

Publication history

After GDW's '' Traveller'' game, the next of

's licenses with companies other than TSR was for

Chaosium Chaosium Inc. is a publisher of tabletop role-playing games established by Greg Stafford in 1975. Chaosium's major titles include ''Call of Cthulhu (role-playing game), Call of Cthulhu'', based on the horror fiction stories of H. P. Lovecraft'', R ...

's ''

''. These books were centered on adventures from the start. Their first publication was

Rudy Kraft Rudy Kraft III is a game designer who has worked primarily on role-playing games. Career Steve Perrin and Rudy Kraft designed the ''RuneQuest'' (1978) mythical fantasy roleplaying game, set in the world of Glorantha created by Greg Stafford, a ...

's ''Broken Tree Inn'' (1979), a notable supplement because it featured material cut from Chaosium's own '' Snake Pipe Hollow'' (1979) — though the

Glorantha Glorantha is a fantasy world created by Greg Stafford. It was first introduced in the board game '' White Bear and Red Moon'' (1975) by Chaosium and then in a number of other board, roleplaying and computer games, including '' RuneQuest'' and ' ...

references were removed in the Judges Guild publication.

Reception

Forrest Johnson reviewed ''Broken Tree Inn'' in ''

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'' No. 30. Johnson commented that "''Broken Tree Inn'' will work for almost any GM, but it could be a dull adventure in the hands of a novice." On rpg.net reviewer Lev Lafayette argues that ''Broken Tree Inn provides'' "plenty of plot opportunities," but is very inefficient in its use of space resulting in "the general lack of substance for the page count." Also of note is the prurient humour with Elven character names such as "Dry Root" and "Long Stem."

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References

{{reflist Judges Guild fantasy role-playing game adventures Role-playing game supplements introduced in 1979 RuneQuest 2nd edition supplements