Runes

Runes are small stones that allow magic users to cast spells. Some of these spells can be used for combat while others can be used to benefit the player casting them.

Runes can either be bought from the various Rune shops found across RuneScape, created from rune essence through the runecrafting skill, procured from drops by killing monsters, or picked up from respawns on the ground.

Free runes
All players can use the runes listed below, though free players can only craft runes up to body rune and the two stores (in Varrock and Port Sarim) only sell the basic runes, Chaos and Death.

Members runes
The Wizards' Guild located in Yanille has the cheapest rune shop available to members. Located on its upper floors, it sells every available rune in the game, excluding astral, cosmic, and combination runes.

Only members can use the runes listed below.

Combination runes
These runes are members only, and act as one of each of their composite runes.

Rogue trader
This is from Ali Morrisane's mini game, which you can do if you've finished The Feud.

After you complete Rune Mysteries you can go to Ali Morrisane and talk to him about getting runes for his bazaar (here it means street shop). After some extensive walking or teleporting with the Amulet of Glory, and some sudoku puzzles, (4 by 4--easy--or 9 by 9--hard). You can now get runes for a cheaper price. An interesting note is that prices stay the same while you are buying or selling runes.

Respawn locations
Here is a list of respawn locations of runes throughout RuneScape.