Brian Duguid

Not sure where best to put this, but I'll try here. I know this may be difficult with nervousness around large file sizes, but it would be really nice to get a higher-resolution PDF of the new 2nd edition Glorantha Sourcebook - I'm particularly looking at Katrin's coin images in the various royal genealogies, where both the images and the text would benefit from being rendered at a higher resolution. Because, you know, who doesn't want to zoom in and admire Jar-Eel, Sorana Tor et al more closely?

Many thanks to everyone who has bought this book and has now made it a COPPER BEST-SELLER. I have uploaded the first updated version, which includes: added Redbubble art from DMs After Dark / Katrin Dirim added The Greatest Tournament in the World freeform booklet availability (German language version) updated link to the free Rune Hearts game, which now has its own dedicated web page added the Quest Portal VTT, with first impressions of its content including its AI assistant used in an RQG context As always, if you have comments or additions - contact me at the email address given in the book, not here or anywhere else. If you want to be automatically alerted to future updates: click the FOLLOW button on this thread. And if you found the book interesting or enjoyable - please add a star-rating, and a review if you are feeling particularly kind. http://tiny.cc/rq-buyers-guide

And also take note: SPECIAL OFFERS! For a limited period and in limited numbers only, I'm providing exclusive discount codes to purchasers of this book: $2.49 off each of my other two books, The Children of Hykim, and The Voralans. I think that's pretty great value: if you use just one of those discount codes, you've essentially got this $2.49 buyer's guide for free. And if you use both: you're quids in, as they say round my way. You'll find the discount codes in a separate file alongside the book in the DTRPG library.

So ... if you are a creator of RuneQuest and/or Gloranthan product and you want to share more detail with me about your stuff, or correct any mistakes - buy the book, check what's there, and please get in touch on the email address included in the book. I hope to update the book irregularly, and will be checking that email for notifications - not Facebook or anywhere else. Thanks!

I'm delighted to announce that An Unofficial Buyer's Guide to RuneQuest and Glorantha is now available. I'm indebted to the mighty Kristi Herbert for the cover art, which is well worth studying in detail to see what secrets the book might contain (or that we just dreamed up). Also many thanks to the Chaosium team for making this possible at all, and to my mini-legion of Lhankor Mhy fact wranglers for their input. Let the battle for the merch begin! Have you ever been surprised to discover a product you can buy for RuneQuest or Glorantha that you hadn't previously even known existed? Did you know that you can still get brand-new copies of that Gloranthan fanzine that quit publishing 15 years ago? Have you ever bought a RuneQuest book and then been annoyed to discover it was half the price on a different website? Have you ever asked ... which Gloranthan fiction is still available to buy right now? How many Gloranthan boardgames are for sale today? How many languages is RuneQuest: Roleplaying in Glorantha available in, and what are they? Where can you buy a Seven Mothers apron? Does anyone make a Gloranthan dragon snail miniature? Which artists are selling prints of their Gloranthan art? Where can I find alternatives to the standard RQG character sheet? If so ... then this Unofficial Buyer's Guide is probably for you. This guide aims to list and describe everything that is currently available to buy, or that you can get for free. I'm pretty sure that most fans will find a few surprises inside! My intention is for the Buyer's Guide to have very little overlap with Rick Meints' Meints Index to Glorantha, a much more comprehensive survey. It also doesn't conflict with Nick Brooke's excellent Jonstown Compendium Catalogue. If you want to read about the Jonstown Compendium's many marvels of community content - look there. Here is some of what is described across the sixty pages of this Unofficial Guide: Art • Badges • Bags • Boardgames • Character sheets • Classic reprints • Clothing • Coins • Comics • Computer games • Cults • Dice • Dice trays • Discounts • Drinkware • Fiction • Free stuff • Game aids • Histories • Homeware • Indexes • International editions • Magazines • Merchandise • Miniatures • Music • Online resources • RPGs • Rules • Scenarios • Stickers • Tokens If this Guide proves popular, I plan to update it on an irregular basis at least until the end of 2024, so please check back here in your DTRPG library for any new version. And as always: if you like it ... please rate it and review it! http://tiny.cc/rq-buyers-guide

From The Eleven Lights, page 162: Earth Season The Dragonrise (date as above); The Liberation of Boldhome Dark Season Tarsh siezes Alda-Chur The Battle of Dangerford Page 168 of The Eleven Lights has Fazzur marching south from Alda-Chur on Godsday, Harmony Week, Fire Season, reaching Herongreen Fort on Waterday of Death Week, then camping there throughout Clayday. I assume that's an error and intended to be Dark Season. The Tarshite forces then march towards Dangerford on Windsday of Death Week, and the battle takes place that day (page 171). Sacred Time Kallyr's Short Lightbringer's Quest

I don't think they all have precise dates, but the Dragonrise was on Clay Day, Harmony Week, Earth Season. https://glorantha.fandom.com/wiki/Brown_Dragon_Rising

See Ian's post here. If you contact him, he and Fabian are offering to compensate early buyers with "some kind of bonus item": https://basicroleplaying.org/topic/15587-pavis-big-rubble-companion-the-directors-cut-relaunch/page/29/#comment-352374

Two years ago, in Weapons & Equipment, it promised that the RuneQuest Gamemaster Sourcebook would provide information on ships, naval combat, owning and maintaining a ship, magical effects of poems and songs, membership of guilds, guild training, creation of magical items and minor enchantments, crystal attunement etc. I think it's a reasonable assumption that it's fairly well progressed.

Perfect! You can't go wrong with three duck characters on show!

Hi all. I am looking for screenshots of RQG in any VTT, for inclusion in my forthcoming book An Unofficial Buyer's Guide to RuneQuest & Glorantha. Are you happy for me to use your Foundry screen images above, @Tyrian Telbenj? Or do you have any @Dangermouse? And does anyone have any for Roll20, showing the character sheet in use? I believe the Fantasy Grounds version never happened?

Here you go!

The ad shows what the book will cover: products that are available today. The aim is to have little or no overlap with the Meints Index to Glorantha, which (3rd edition) covers everything published up until around 2015, and also not to duplicate Nick Brooke's invaluable Jonstown Compendium Catalogue. Think that doesn't leave much? Well, the work-in-progress draft is sitting at 57 pages so far ...

Have you ever been surprised to discover a product you can buy for RuneQuest or Glorantha that you hadn't previously known even existed? Did you know that you can still get brand-new copies of that Gloranthan fanzine that quit publishing 15 years ago? Have you ever bought a RuneQuest book and then been annoyed to discover it was half the price on a different website? If so ... then this book, coming soon to the Jonstown Compendium, is for you. Which Gloranthan fiction is still available to buy right now? How many Gloranthan boardgames are for sale today? How many languages is RuneQuest Roleplaying in Glorantha available in, and what are they? Where can you buy a Seven Mothers apron? Does anyone make a Gloranthan dragon snail miniature? Which artists are selling prints of their Gloranthan art? Where can I find alternatives to the standard RQG character sheet? Answers to all these and more are ... coming soon!

What is it? It's a joy, that's what it is.

For Orlanth, you could start with Indra. Even the Wikipedia article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indra should give you a few similarities, such as their similar power over thunder, the vajra, and their battles against evil serpents in order to free the rains. But that's largely what you'll find: occasional correspondences rather than a 1:1 mapping.

It's showing as available again ... https://www.chaosium.com/mig3-the-meints-index-to-glorantha-hardcover/

20% off The Children of Hykim (and it's sister book The Voralans) in DriveThruRPG's GM's day sale for the next 10 days.

20% off The Voralans (and it's sister book The Children of Hykim) in DriveThruRPG's GM's day sale for the next 10 days.

I refer to it frequently. Little bit shocked to discover it's currently OOP on the Chaosium website! (Unless this means we'll get the leatherette edition as part of a reprint exercise 😉).

David Dunham had an otter Hsunchen tribe, the Udari (https://www.pensee.com/dunham/ralios/hsunchen.html). Although the Otter tribe is listed in Revealed Mythologies as one of sixteen original Fiwan tribes, I took the view in The Children of Hykim that if there ever were otter Hsunchen, they are extinct. Essentially, their descendants are the intelligent otters; just as many other Hsunchen tribes are extinct, with their descendants being the intelligent humans.

I also have a review of Treasures of Glorantha 2 over on DTRPG:

I'm sure everyone has bought this by now, but if anyone has not, it's worth finding the little "Adjust Donation" button when purchasing, as it allows you to increase the proportion of the sale that goes to both Chaosium and to WWF.

Black elves, please :-). As Joerg said, it's food. Fungi gotta eat, too.

Rathor's mother is Frona - CoRQ: The Prosopaedia, page 41.