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36 minutes ago, tnli said:

It's been 2021-12-10 for many hours, where can I give you my money?

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

Here!

54 minutes ago, Bill the barbarian said:

Aw, that ruins an already sucky day. You have good sense so I will definitely look at this, as JG products made a young hobbyist quite happy many decades ago!

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. 

7 hours ago, AndreJarosch said:

I know that some of the Judges Guild books was available in their 1979/1980 glory at Drivethru, but can´t find them anymore.

I would love to see them updated to RQG ruleswise AND at the same time updated to fit into canon 1625/1627 Glorantha. 

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. 

On 11/16/2021 at 12:05 PM, simonh said:

Six days later and still not shipped. I'm sure the warehouse nilmergs are doing their best, but I wants it!

EDIT: Aha - just changed to shipped. It's on it's way! Unfortunately the "tracking link" on my order page isn't a link, maybe that's a US thing and I'm UK. I have an order number but no way to track it. Oh well, it'll be a nice surprise.

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!

2 hours ago, PhilHibbs said:

Huh, still no email yet, so much for signing up to be the first to know! 😜

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.  

5 hours ago, sirlarkins said:

That's about the status, still. But I'm not the only one at Chaosium who is very enthusiastic about the project, so I think the odds of it happening at some point are very good.

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

45 minutes ago, DreadDomain said:

May I suggest this thread to be pinède. Especially if the intention is to keep it alive.

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?

3 hours ago, OrdosMalleus said:

Not sure if this is the right forum to post this, but here goes:

I have the Keeper's Rulebook, Investigator's Handbook, and the Screen pack, but I don't have the lovely slipcase. Chaosium sells empty slipcases for RQ but not CoC. Anyone have a slipcase they're willing to part with? (waves money)

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.

@MOB all look great! As I said in the other thread on this there is a typo on the download page. Under 1930s Pulp Cthuthu one one is labeled as "19230s - Pulp - Color"

They look great! Just noticed a typo on the download page. Under 1930s Pulp Cthuthu one one is labeled as "19230s - Pulp - Color"

Great news! I was recently reading about these and gazing with lust at eBay listings glad I will be able to get them brand new and in colour while supporting Chaosium 🙂

One request please please keep the London boxed set a boxed set as a boxed set. I do love me some hardback RPGs but there is something magical about a boxed set.

On 8/19/2021 at 8:58 AM, Rick Meints said:

The two page piece of art with the title "The Catch" is right in the middle of the handouts section. I have a feeling that because someone removed the handouts they also removed this picture. The handouts are not part of the regular numbering scheme of the book, so I imagine that your book goes right from page 36 to 37, without having amy handout pages.

Does this mean we will have the original handouts included in the books as well as the fancy new ones? 

David Larkins has said a few times he would love to do a Robin Hood one so I see that as fairly likely. I went to University in Nottingham and always had a Robin Hood soft spot so that one really excites me. Also really a massive fan of Greek mythology so a Greek heroic era playing descendants of the gods is like catnip to me. 

Looking over literary cycles on Wikipedia there are a number of ones that jump out at me, the Anansi tales and 1001 nights. Other than those I'd love to see an Ancient Egyptian (Old Kingdom to say New Kingdom) one but not sure how well that would work.

33 minutes ago, smiorgan said:

"Another couple of titles I need to mention are Gaslight and Dreamlands for Call of Cthulhu 7th edition. Both of those settings are getting the full color treatment and should also be going into final manuscript form soon. Each of those would also feature a boxed Starter set as your entry point into those realms of the Mythos."

Rick Meints on Grognardia 

http://grognardia.blogspot.com/2021/07/interview-rick-meints-part-ii.html?m=1

😍

 

I keep throwing money at my laptop open to the Chaosium website but it hasn't worked yet...

I have to say I’m very excited by this. I’ve been a fan of the books for close to a decade now and basing it on CoC makes it much easier to learn and sell my group on since they already play that. 

Sounds like  it’s going to have a starter set as they mention a solo game which Chaosium seem to like putting in starter sets (not that I’m complaining by any means here). 

10 hours ago, AlonsoAguilurk said:

As @SentinelHillPress covered most of what's been published for Gaslight and Dark Ages, I just wanted to add that, surprisingly, Dreamlands has had even less support from Chaosium. I can only think of The Dreaming Stone as a direct supplement.

So (and for anyone at Chaosium reading this I'm not trying to complain or whine just express my wish for more in each setting) in 7e, I'd say we have had 3 distinct other settings and one smaller one

• Pulp Cthulhu - 2 campaigns completely designed for it, a scenario collection on the way and the 4 scenarios in the book. Also a lot of the newer books have stats or at least advice on making it pulp.
• Down Darker Trails - 1 setting/campaign book with another on its way plus the 2 scenarios in the book.
• Cthulhu Dark Ages - 3 scenarios in the book.

I'm counting Reign of Terror as the smaller one, I liked the book enough that I would like to see more stuff set in 1790s-1810s France it was a fascinating time and I hope we see more of it.

Pulp Cthulhu and Down Darker Trails have had pretty good support and I don't have much to complain about with them. I do hope that more stuff is in the works for both of them. 

I may be getting a bit ahead of myself since Dark Ages only came out last year and using Down Darker Trails as a model there is 2 years between releases but I really really want more stuff set in this era, the book itself was fantastic and I think it could really go places. 

The same will almost certainly apply to Gaslight and Dreamlands when they are out and I hope that the previous scenario packs can fill some of the gaps in this.

OK to move it back onto topic how about a collection of adventures previously featured in older versions of books such as Gaslight and Dreamlands? We've had updated books like Terror Australis but I don't know if there were any scenarios in the previous version that didn't make it into the new one. Chaosium could release a PDF/POD book that contained all the orphaned scenarios if there are enough. I know there was a scenario missing from the Chaosium version of Harlem Unbound but I imagine there might be issues with this one in particular.

6 hours ago, SentinelHillPress said:

The "weird shark thing" covered book is Dark Designs, which was a 3-scenario collection for Gaslight (that is a

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There was one other regular release Gaslight scenario collect - Sacraments of Evil - that had six scenarios.  There are a scattering of Gaslight scenarios in others books (most recently in Nameless Horrors, which had 2 I believe) plus licensee materials like The Golden Dawn (very very unlikely to ever be reprinted) and several projects from Stygian Fox (Hudson and Brand, several stand alone scenarios), and a handful of magazine scenarios. Fan-materials add more scenarios, either in older MULA monographs or more recently for the Miskatonic Repository. There was even an all Gaslight issue of the fanzine The Whisperer.

Cthulhu Dark Ages came out during a period of very few products being released in any given year by Chaosium (and the 1st edition was a translation of a German book called 1000AD) so there weren't any regular releases for CDA. Instead there were some monographs (sourcebooks like The Abbey), a couple scenario collections (all Viking-related I think), and a scattering of individual scenarios in monographs and magazines - first in Worlds of Cthulhu and then again more recently in Bayt al Azif. There are only one or two Misk Rep. Dark Ages releases.

Thanks for the really detailed reply! After getting into CoC I became really fascinated by Chaosium”s eclectic history of ups and downs. I’m aware of the 2000s downturn and the monographs. I’d also seen the abbey available still on the store in PDF. I keep seeing all these really cool different settings for CoC that don’t seem to be hugely well supported. With Gaslights and Dreamlands they absolutely should reprint these older scenarios around the time they release the 7e versions but I’d really like to see more from them. I don’t know how much of a fools errand that is since the 1920s is the bread and butter of their releases. I really want to see more Dark Age stuff, the 7e book was really well done and I’d like more in that world. 
 

now that I’ve completely derailed my own topic I’d also like to thank you for the list of more obscure stuff. Im going to go look into those scenarios now 🙂. I just hope CoC classic ends up like RuneQuest where all of the early supplements (minus a few I know) are available again. 

13 hours ago, AlonsoAguilurk said:

No Man's Land is a pretty rare one, and WW1 setting has been virtually unexplored ever since, so that'll be a great addition. Tatters is currently on POD at DriveThruRPG so don't know how scarce it really is. Same goes for Spawn of Azathoth, which had a 2004 edition, I think. 

I would love to see Dark Designs and Sacraments of Evil, which are both Gaslight scenario collections. It would be a nice complement to the eventual release of 7E Gaslight. Same goes for The Dreaming Stone campaign for Dreamlands, which is also kind of hard to find nowadays. 

Huh I didn't know there were POD Chaosium products on DriveThruRPG. I can find Tatters no problem but not Spawn (I can find it PDF but not PDF) do you have a link? I've gone through all the products available on DriveThruRPG and they have a buncb I'm interested in including original Cthulhu Dark Ages, Miskatonic University, most if not all of the Secrets books and the original Mansions of Madness. Thanks for letting me know these were available!

Is one of those Gaslight books the one with the weird shark like thing on the cover? I wouldn't say no to more of Gaslights or Dreamlands to support those eventual lines but are there only 2 Gaslights and 1 Dreamlands supplements of note? What about anything at all for Dark Ages that could be reprinted?

Speaking of No Man's Land I've been spitballing a linked set of scenarios that start off with the investigators discovering something bad during trench warfare in WW1 then later on having to go back to secure whatever it was to stop the nazis from getting it, just trying to think how to potentially expand it to the cold war. World War 1 could be such an interesting place to set more stuff in.

12 hours ago, AndrewTBP said:

I would like Blood Brothers 1 & 2 also. Not least because 2 of my friends wrote scenarios in those books. 😉

That is very cool. I just read the premise and I was immediately sold on the concept. It appears these were marketed as Non Mythos CoC titles, was that just for these or were there more in the non mythos line? That is something I'd definitely like to see come back as much as I love the mythos it would keep my investigators on their toes if they weren't sure about this during their investigation.