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https://www.chaosium.com/runequest-weapons-equipment-pdf/ Here!

Sorry Bill! Yeah it’s not good news at all but if it’s any conciliation from what I read at the time (and recall now) the original Bob didn’t have these views. So I wouldn’t consider the products in a different light just that buying them now gives money to people who I’d (and I’m 100% sure you from the conversations we’ve had) would not like to support. edited to change the speculation on Bills reaction as in hindsight it wasn’t firm enough and I don’t want Bill to think I’d even consider he’d support that type of stuff.

Judges Guild got kicked off DrivethruRPG last year because of the actions of Bob Bledsaw the second and third (the son and grandson of the founder who died in 2008 and from what I could see did not seem to share their beliefs). I won't go into details but a quick google should help out. It is a shame as I would quite like to pick up their Runequest duck books but really don't want to give them money at all and they seem pretty pricey on ebay.

I will say that box is HEAVY. It weighs more than this beast which has miniatures and cardboard tokens in it (btw for anyone looking for a fun RPG for young kids this looks to be pretty good and it goes into the recent Pixar film Onward). The only heavier box I’ve got is Forbidden Lands which has a 200 and 250 page set of faux leather bound hardbacks in it! (I have started to fall down the rabbit hole of buying an RPG on the sole criteria it is in a box which can only end in bad places). but back to RuneQuest! Starter set is beautiful and has so much stuff in it. My one criticism is the covers seem to be printed on the same paper stock as the interior but I’m not whining (at least more than in this sentence) as it’s ridiculously cheap for the content and I want Chaosium to keep me supplied in dope box sets (and non boxed sets) RPGs for as long as possible.

Mine just arrived and it’s still showing as awaiting shipment on the order page. Also in the U.K., it looks like they weren’t kidding when they said overwhelming demand!

As someone who used to work at a company that provided a marketing email service (think MailChimp but no where near as good) there could be many many many reasons for not receiving a marketing email and only a small percentage of those would be because of something Chaosium did. Around 10 years ago when Black Friday started to be a thing over here we got massively caught out by demand on the system and emailed advertising a start of sale at 9am didn't go out for 2-3 days.... That was a fun mess to deal with let me tell you.

IT IS MINE *maniacal laughter*

As a Brit I’d agree with Phil Hibbs. I’d also like to extend an apology on behalf of the country for everything (which is a very very broad category when it comes to my country 😞).

So I just got the Paladin and Paladin adventure books and was really pleasantly surprised to find the edges of the pages are gold. I’ve not seen this on an RPG book before and it makes me really glad I’ve got them. All I ask is that Chaosium please please continue this for Pendragon 6e. It makes them seem so fancy! Also the 2 ribbons in the rule book are very nice and I’d like to see multiple ribbons in the thicker books going forward.

Thanks David, I've added it now with the provision you mentioned 🙂

My plan is to keep this thread alive. I’m pretty sure we aren’t going to see much more books spoken about until the first 6e books start to come out so it’s a bit quiet at the moment. The only book I’ve heard about that isn’t in the list is a proposed Robin Hood version which as a former resident of Nottingham I’m very interested in. But David just mentioned it as a book he wants to do at some point rather than definitely happening ( @sirlarkins if you wanted to chime in here I’d be very grateful). I’ve got notifications set up so if someone replies I get an email so I’m not going to forget to update the list, if anyone knows of another book that Chaosium have mentioned is upcoming then post a link to the source in this thread and I will update the first post. Just need to wait until next year to move some of the upcoming books to currently available 🙂

I have to say I was not disappointed in the optional Pulp Cthulhu chapter. Ever since Mike’s interview on your blog where he said there was a new pulp chapter I’ve been curious about where it would be set and a bit annoyed about the tip toeing around it but I 100% see why now and it makes it more likely I’m going to run this for my group just for that chapter (I haven’t read a lot of the rest of it yet so can’t comment on the quality of it but it all looks good so far).

I just bought everything off DriveThruRPG for what is a pretty silly reason. Your company name is what my D&D Campaigns group is called (I was outvoted on Care Bears). I mean I didn't just buy it because of that coincidence but that got me to click on the thread and then the system looked pretty interesting! Going to go have a look through now along with the new Cthulhu book released today.

Looks good! I have avoided buying any of the leatherette versions because my stupid brain would somehow convince me to buy everything in leatherette as well as standard and I’m sadly not rich enough to do that but this is different enough so that shouldn’t happen (plus 40th anniversary and it being pretty in a Cthulhu way). I do have one question if I were to buy the standard PDF of the rule book now would I be able to use that as a coupon for this version? Also will there be a PDF with the added material in?

Chaosium will soon be selling them on their own. A few of us had this exact request a few months ago and got some printed and they are currently being shipped to warehouses. As shipping is a ridiculous mess right now we don't know when this will be but I'd expect them in the next few months. You can see said slipcase in this video Chaosium posted (around 3:25) back in June.