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3 hours ago, Rick Meints said:

The Gateway Bestiary came out because a super-generous fan and friend recreated it for us. Yes, he scanned in, OCR'd, cleaned up and re-laid it out and then surprised us with it.

Thank you very much, whoever did that!

1 hour ago, Rick Meints said:

Any ONE of these of interest?

Rick, a PDF of the first edition rulebook would be super-rad! I’ve always felt like I was missing some Glorantha basics which are taken for granted in RQ. And maybe the Church hex map on RedBubble?

1 hour ago, ffilz said:

RQ1 was part of the kick starter,

Only the PDF.

On 9/16/2020 at 9:29 PM, SilverSeraph said:

Looks so nice.  All but 5 or 6 look big enough to make a good HC book.  Could saddle stitch also possibly be an option for the ones that were originally in that format?  I.e. Cults of Prax, Cults of Terror etc.  That's such a good format for the gaming table because they lay flat more easily.

At any rate, thanks so much for this.  Really looking forward to them.

I would echo this. Saddle stitch would be preferable for most of these, esp. Snakepipe and Plunder. But totally not complaining, I assume it’s a POD limitation and it is what it is. Super grateful to have these! I never owned 80% of these and could never afford them, so super stoked!

Also, thanks for Gateway Bestiary and RQ1, which were not promised by the Kickstarter, IIRC. Bonus!

On 9/16/2020 at 5:09 PM, Rick Meints said:

That just leaves Sun County, Strangers in Prax, Shadows on the Borderland, Dorastor, and Lords of Terror. We might reprint the first three, and maybe do the last two as a combo reprint, but I haven't spent any time thinking about that. I would like to get the Troubled Waters scenario from River of Cradles reprinted, but I wouldn't reprint the rest of the book since Pavis and Big Rubble are both available again.

I would spring for these if you do them, Rick. Also, Dragon Pass. 😇

This is so amazing. Thank you so much, Rick, and, congratulations on a job well done!

On 2/29/2020 at 4:36 PM, Vile said:

While print-on-demand isn't bad these days (in fact, it's quite good), some "proper" new books from the Kickstarter would be nice to have. Most of mine, with the exception of the indestructible Games Workshop softcover RQ2 rulebook, are getting a bit fragile.

Vile, I don’t know if you’ve seen this, but THIS is some quality POD! https://www.tolkien.co.uk/print-demand-bespoke-new-edition/

On 3/3/2020 at 11:56 AM, Rick Meints said:

If you look at any of the PDFs produced for the RQ Classic titles you pretty much know how each printed version will look. TrollPak is a single PDF that includes all the handouts, same for Pavis, Big Rubble, and Borderlands. Printed poster maps are currently available for purchase on redbubble.com. We will not combine books beyond what was done on the Kickstarter, such as with the SoloQuest Collection of the three solos in a single PDF, which basically made each solo a chapter in a single book. We won't combine Pavis and Big Rubble because not everyone purchased Pavis AND Big Rubble during the Kickstarter, or since then. Plus, some people only want one of the two for whatever reason. Thus, they are only going to be sold individually. None of these will be sold as an individual boxed set with individual booklets and components because we doubt they would sell well enough to justify a regular print run, and items like that cannot be done economically as POD. 

Thanks very much for the update, Rick!

I didn’t know that about redbubble.com. Super excited to see that.

I personally definitely do prefer Pavis and Big Rubble as separate books, FWIW.

If there are any of these that you think would sell well enough to justify a regular print run, I would personally prefer that over POD, no matter if it’s done unhurriedly like one/year. These are classics, and the more archival the quality the better, for me!

I thought it would be kind of awesome to make a pictorial list of all available RuneQuest Classic products sorted by year of release. If you click on an image, it will take you the appropriate storefront page (mostly just PDFs at present). It’s neat to see how Chaosium’s product line—and product design—developed throughout the early years. Beautiful!

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Here is the info on hardcover vs. softcover as stated during the campaign:

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Sounds great to me, especially if perfect binding can be avoided in some of the larger softcovers.

Greetings, all!

My apologies if this has been covered before, but, Rick Meints invited me to start a thread here regarding the RQ2 Supplements Reprints, so, here goes!

For those not in the know, Chaosium ran a Kickstarter in 2015, raising $206,000 on the promise that various products would be reprinted in 2016:

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$40,000 - APPLE LANE
A softcover classic adventure reborn… We will print a softcover book and make it available for sale in 2016.

$50,000 - SNAKEPIPE HOLLOW
A softcover classic adventure in the caverns of chaos… We will print a softcover book and make it available for sale in 2016.

$60,000 - RUNEMASTERS
The classic cult leader NPC supplement… We will print a softcover book and make it available for sale in 2016.

$70,000 - PLUNDER
The classic Praxian treasure supplement… We will print a softcover book and make it available for sale in 2016.

$80,000 - RQ COMPANION
The classic compilation of Gloranthan information… We will print a softcover book and make it available for sale in 2016.

$100,000 - CULTS OF PRAX
The classic supplement detailing the Cults of Prax… We will print a softcover book and make it available for sale in 2016.

$115,000 - CULTS OF TERROR
The classic supplement of Chaos cults… We will make a printed book available for sale in 2016.

$130,000 - SOLOQUEST CLASSIC COLLECTION
We will combine the three SoloQuest books: SoloQuest, Scorpion Hall, and the Snow King's Bride… We will make a printed book available for sale in 2016.

$145,000 - GRIFFIN MOUNTAIN
The classic campaign set in the Elder Wilds and Balazar… We will make a printed book available for sale in 2016.

$160,000 - PAVIS
The classic city campaign supplement… We will make a printed book available for sale in 2016.

$175,000 - BIG RUBBLE
The classic campaign set in a ruined city on the River of Cradles… We will make a printed book available for sale in 2016.

$190,000 - BORDERLANDS
The classic campaign for new characters set on the edge of Prax… We will make a printed book available for sale in 2016.

$205,000 - TROLLPAK
The epic Troll supplement written by Sandy Petersen and Greg Stafford… We will make a printed book available for sale in 2016.

Well, as I think most people know, Chaosium had some trouble in finalizing the layout for all these products, but, in July 2019, we received the happy news that they were all done, and the printed books were on the way. Starting a thread about it is my way of hopefully drumming up a little excitement.

What’s kind of cool is that these can be used with RQ2 and with RQG. In fact, I believe that was the main reason stated for keeping RQG so closely compatible with RQ2, i.e., to keep this incredible back library accessible.

Speaking personally, I am too young to have collected, let alone played, any of these “back in the day” when they were first released for RQ2, but I have heard about them for a long time. Some of these are very famous. I’ve been able to pick up three of them on the secondhand market, but, most of them are just too rare, and therefore expensive. I really, really look forward to completing my collection. I will even re-buy the ones I already have. The core book reprint looks really great!

Any advice or resources for a campaign based on E.T. and Stranger Things — kids biking around and taking care of business in the suburban or rural 80s?

Not to mention that the suggestion that you could eventually buy a shiny new complete RQ2 collection was a major incentive for supporting the kickstarter and buying the core book in the first place.

6 hours ago, Mechashef said:

RQ3 … Sure it wasn't so closely tied to Glorantha and wasn't well supported with quality supplements, but that isn't a flaw in the game system.

No, but an abundance of quality support material is certainly a great reason to pick RQ2.

Any update on the Apple Lane reprint? Looking forward to purchasing this. Thanks.

Considering the wealth of gameable modules available for RQ2 — Apple Lane, Snakepipe Hollow, Broken Tree Inn, Hellpits of Nightfang, Duck Tower, Duck Pond, Griffin Mountain, Thieves’ World, Borderlands, Trollpak, Pavis, and Big Rubble — that’s a hell of a lot of awesomeness, and you’re set for years and years’ worth of honest-to-goodness, tried-and-true (and justly famous) campaigns. That was a big factor for me. Also, the reprints have their layout redone and are very high quality. I will be buying any and all that they produce!

Now I see it, too! Thanks a lot, Vile!

10 hours ago, styopa said:

(if we have elves, we have to have dwarves, right? TOLKIEN SAID SO!)

The flip side of this is when a player in your Apple Lane game asks you if he can play a dwarf, and you say no, because CHAOSIUM SAID SO.

RQ1/RQ2 actually are very explicit about allowing dwarf characters, that they often travel on the surface to gain experience and treasure, that parties of them can be encountered, that they raid elf woods and troll areas, that they pawn items to Gringle and detect slopes in the Rainbow Mounds. They hate elves and trolls, and they are avaricious, and they are artificers who invented iron and stuff, but these characteristics are hardly alien (they are straight out of Tolkien). I presume deeper Gloranthan lore doesn’t exactly contradict all this so much as add more facts about them that make them stranger. I get that RQ = BRP Glorantha, but, I would sort of assume the core book would still be pretty lite on Gloranthan lore.

If not, that’s cool, that’s what RQ Classic is for, I guess!

Just curious if Steve Perrin’s SPQR rules influence the design of RQ4.

Also curious if Sandy Petersen’s Sorcery rules (from Ye Booke of Tentacles #1) influence the design of RQ4.

Thanks!

*duplicate post*

Thanks for the answers, everyone. I didn’t mean that I doubt that anyone is genuinely pro-7e; I just hope there isn’t a culture here where it’s taboo to be pro- any other edition. I’m glad to see diverse opinions.

Personally, as a newbie I found the 2nd Edition core set the very easiest to digest. As a player, I also always enjoyed the expanded occupations found in the Investigator’s Companion Volume II. As a GM, I like a good Screen and Shadows of Yog-Sothoth.

Is everyone really on board with the new edition, or just being polite because this is the company board, and the editors post here? Hope this isn’t a taboo question, and I don’t mean to offend; I just assumed most people were sticking with 6e or earlier.

I own the RQ3 softcover perfect-bound all-in-one-book edition that was printed in 1993. (One of the most eyeroll-worthy aspects of RQ3 is all the many many ways it was sliced and diced into different sets, and booklets, and basic this, and advanced that; so, this printing is the way to go, for sure.) I consider it my go-to “BRP Fantasy” book for if I ever want to do something non-Gloranthan. For flavor and playability, though, RQ2 is definitely more my style.

I’ll post it, if Rick is okay with that.

The cult is Tokaz Varaz. It is in the Cult Compendium.

Actually, there are Orcs for RQ1, as they were part of Steve Perrin’s Pavis campaign. They are published in Wyrm’s Footnotes Seven along with a cult and rune spells.

It is known that Broken Tree Inn was originally material that was cut from Snake Pipe Hollow—but perhaps it was just the Inn itself, and all of the other adventuring material in that book was written specifically for the JG publication? Do you know any more details about this?

I’ve thought Hellpits of Nightfang could be placed in the Gork Hills in the Elder Wilds, in case anyone wants to investigate the rumors that a Vampire lairs there.

An only-slightly-related question about Griffin Island: Where it differs from Griffin Mountain, are those differences based on an older, pre-Goranthified manuscript, or were they all new ideas?

Since you have a soft spot for the Judges Guild products, would you ever doing a licensed reprint (to make the beautiful RQ Classic set complete)?

Do I understand rightly? Will RQ4 have the same assumed time period as the 13th Age materials? Will the Glorantha Sourcebook be equally directly applicable to both games? Is the GS more similar to the 1990 Genertela set, or the 2004 Dragon Pass gazetteer, or somewhere in-between, or other?