Ian A. Thomson

One thing that would be super useful - since I am immersed in literally days of editing and reformatting right now - is help with references to typical Praxian & Big Rubble creatures and denizens in current RQG publications You know the kind of thing: Typical Dark Troll - see pg XX in RQG Creatures Section (or in RQG Bestiary) Rubble Runners - see pg XX in RQG Creatures Section (or in RQG Bestiary) Typical Lunar Squaddie - - see pg XX in RQG Lunar Chapter Obviously this is something I can do eventually, but it's another job that takes up time from the actual editing and writing new material, and so I was wondering if any people with current fluency in the new publications might be able to help?

Thanks for your support, both now and with the original series! :)

You know what, that phrase could capture everything about what grabbed me about the original boxed sets, and what led to the campaign that led to the P&BR Companions! :) One thing that the revamped series will need is a bit more original adventure material in New Pavis. I know Gimpys' featured in my campaign, and just hope I find that material in the text of the Companions or I will have to write it again :)

Someone has changed it Presumably in response to my post :) Thanks :)

Started a new thread, since this one doesn't spell my name right :) (That's not the main reason - my name isn't even in the title of the other thread. Just felt to start a new one as symbolic of this project starting to get off the ground.)

Hi Folks Thanks heaps for all the comments, encouragement, support, and practical assistance so far. All prompted by me finding some old unpublished Pavis material on a dusty XHD as I prepare to move house (and state) in a few weeks. Combined with (unknown to me) Fabian & Dario having been pondering the possibility of republishing for quite some time. Problem was that much of the material was lost. So a huge thanks to those who have helped me recover text and images. I don't have it all back yet, but am well on the way. [Edit: I do have ALL the material back now as far as I can see.] :) This project (the relaunch) is an insane idea. The amount of time and effort required requires madmen to be involved. Fortunately I am in a space where I am living alone for another few weeks, and have no huge commitments. A space I may not be in again ever. So I am donning my madman mask and putting in 10hr days to make this happen. Wish us luck! Dario is sadly only able to be involved by providing his original art (for which we are awesomely grateful), but Fabian and I will continue with making this happen. Anyway, I felt this discussion deserved it's own thread :)

That is a fortunate coincidence of circumstances then :)

Fantastic. Thanks Yes if they are available as pdfs I may well just buy them for that well-needed option of inserting as many page references and quick adaptation notes as possible into the work under revision Rather than spending valuable time on inventing stats. Time that could be spent proofing and editing the actual content (and the extra content that needs to be written to fill the gaps)

I guess I have to look at this system myself :)

Just confirming then before I start work on stats: This is the character sheet for RQG, the % system that is most popular currently? https://www.chaosium.com/content/FreePDFs/RuneQuest/Character Sheets/RuneQuest Glorantha - Character Sheet.pdf

Thank you Good to know

Thanks for the input folks Very helpful :) >>Ian's adventures are far more suited to RQ than than HQ:G or Questworlds.<< Yes, the style/feel is absolutely classic RQ, although I used originally a rules system based on Stormbringer (stripped down version of RQ rules), then graduated to a D20 system that I designed myself, that was even a bit more streamlined and quicker to use. >>I think Ian misspoke when he mentioned "RQ6" -- that's an easy mistake to make, if you've been out of circulation for a bit.<< Yes, I really have little idea, though starting to get it now :) >>It's RQ (RQG) that's undoubtedly carrying the Glorantha banner these days!<< OK great, so now I know what is most popular: RQG will be the core system we will present the books in >>you don't have to provide complete stats for everything in your JC submissions. (I mean, you can if you want to, but it's probably a bit OTT). If a NPC is only interesting because of their Bargain skill, don't bother telling us their birthday and shoe size (kinda thing). << Preaching to the choir, sir. This idea I am already behind :) Anything a GM can make up in a split second and doesn't matter in the grander scheme of things will not be included! :) That was always going to be the way I will get the sourcebook for RQG and see if there are any Bestiaries or whatever. So in this same time-saving vein, expect to see a lot of "Refer to pXX in 'RQG book' for examples of this. For background/stock characters and situations. Since GMs of the system will mostly own those books anyway I would like to include other systems too, most particularly QW cos it seems to be popular. However, time required already might preclude doing that. This problem could potentially be solved if some QW user is willing to volunteer their time (in return for book copies if they do a lot of work) to convert whatever I write up for RQG into QW. (Again only the main stats/contest notes required.) I would also like to include 13AG because I like D20 systems (altho the one I created was super-streamlined), but once again the sheer amount of work already to do the rerelease likely precludes this. Cos I would have to learn and test the system. Once more if someone who already uses this system was happy to go through and convert my RQG notes into 13AG I would be only too happy and could offer free copies of books in return. I don't plan on retaining HW or HQ rules ideas/ stats for a combined reason: (i) We don't already have either system in place throughout. If we did I would leave it there, but we don't - so consistency would require a LOT of time spent writing more of these stats to fill the gaps, (ii) My sense is that neither system is popular anyway anymore (please correct me if I am wrong, in which case again I'd be looking for a volunteer); and finally (iii) I <looks for diplomatic/polite words> 'strongly disliked' both of these systems and would personally not want to be involved with them again. Just personal preference - others likely loved them

Ah hah OK I am on a steep learning curve here So it looks as if then we should provide regular RQ stats as per your link above With the option to also include RQ13 D20 stats too, which would mean more work for me, but I am drawn to it because of my history of running this campaign with a D20 system (since as noted below this is now allowed on the Compendium)

Awesome to know I created myself from scratch, and used, a D20 system for the last several real time years of the Old Pavis Campaign that the books are based on So it feels like we are going even further back into our authentic roots!!! :) I might even have a whole bunch of my D20 stats somewhere still Wonder if they will match the RQ13 system

Can u define 13G please. Sorry to be so out of the loop. Even more specifically, can you tell me what popular rules mechanics for Gloranthan gaming ARE ok to include in Jonstown releases Thanks very much

Yes, me too. Those original creators were genius's. I remember when I was in my early teens a friend had both boxed sets and reading through them I was just like: "Wow!"

As always, the road to publication has many challenges, but Fabian, Dario & I look to be forming an unholy triumvirate intent on redesigning and re-releasing the Pavis & Big Rubble Companion series in the way it ideally would have been in the first place Bit more tightening of editing, filling in some gaps, and putting all the pieces in a logical order for running a campaign It's going to take many hours of work, but feels manageable over the next few months If anyone is super-proficient at RQ6 or QW stats this is the one skill-set none of us have. I can learn it for sure, but with the massive number of days of editing ahead the help would be appreciated. I remember back in the day creating stats in the systems I knew was as easy as eating a piece of toast :) If someone was able to do a lot of stats for us then definitely a free book could be offered at the end of it all

Thanks Nick. Yes that is looking like the most likely option, and I don't think there are any key parts that I am not sole or main author of. And we have the main illustrator interested too. Other images and the few incidental pieces can be replaced or just left out if we can't get in contact with people.

Yes, I am talking to Fabian about the practicalities of this. We wouldn't just re-release them though, but update them as well. So a fair bit of work, but feels worth it to get the material out there again. Anyway, practicalities talks have begun

@Darius West If I remember correctly and aren't just making it up for the fun of it, Iffinbix was one of those cult leader, inspirational speaker types, whose main motivation was to spread the popularity of a healthy breakfast cereal he had created. And then things just got out of hand *

POST DELETED Since a lot of this material is being adapted for the new series in one form or another :)

Hey Grahame I found the Wedding & Liberation and have edited them together, and made some corrections and added small new bits. I also had a final mini-campaign that I had forgotten altogether, where the Lunars (a couple of seasons before they lost Boldhome to the dragon) attempted a massive armed reprisal on Prax, and marched on the newly revitalised Old City I have no notes anymore, but I added the detailed outline of that to the new pdf, since I remember the essence of it well More than happy to send you a copy of the new version And yes the pdf of Man for All Seasons would be awesome :)

I have found the relatively polished versions of both the Wedding & Liberation campaigns. Someone had them archived online!!!! I won't give out the reference though because I am going to spend a couple of days going through and editing it into a more refined version. It would be nice it it could be an official P&BR Companion: Vol. 6, but a lot of material (especially in Liberation), but not all, is notes about how to edit official publications to make them fit into my campaign. There are also a LOT of original story ideas, so any Narrator with skill and experience could easily adapt it to their own campaign. So, yeh I'm rewriting it now into an unofficial P&BRC6

Hi Folks An old topic but not an antiquated one I am cleaning up prior to moving house and literally found a dust-covered external hard drive behind a cupboard that had a bunch of old Pavis material on, including the lost appendices to Beyond Pavis AND a pdf copy of Beyond Pavis Both have been sent to Fabian of Tentacles Press There were also the notes to the 'Wedding of Pavis' mini-campaign I wrote and ran but was never published. I plan to write those up in the near future and also send to Fabian Cheers Ian Thomson