Jason Farrell

Just one, on Thursday. Sold out at this point.

You don't need to increase the damage of the weapon by strength. The strength bonus takes care of that. The materials don't change, the force with which the weapon is swung does.

Generally speaking, that's the only way it can be. Chaosium allows us to play around in their sandbox, but it's a long way from that to expecting them to incorporate everything people come up with. I don't know if they would ever consider making particularly well researched work canon, but as a blanket policy it makes perfect sense to me not to. It would be like Bethesda Game Studies worrying about what fans have modded for their game when they release a DLC for it. It would never happen. I'm a bit confused whenever someone complains that Chaosium "hasn't told us what happens in 1627" or whatever. What happens is up to you! There's already more background material on Glorantha and the events that take place in it than there are for the vast majority of RPG settings.

On the JC vs official Chaosium publication debate, I personally judge each book by its own merits. It's not a matter of whether JC stuff is canon or might be supplanted by future Chaosium products. I don't care much about that. For me, the reason I want more Chaosium Runequest material is because they have the resources to produce the best, most comprehensive material. There are some excellent books in the JC, but there are also some that are...less excellent. And nobody out there is producing stuff on the level of Guide to Glorantha or the upcoming cults books. It's not an either/or proposition to me. I own most of the JC stuff.

What's disingenuous is to misquote me. I wrote that there has been no cults book for this edition. And there hasn't been. You really think players and GM's should have to find information in White Wolf and supplements from 40 years ago? And then adapt it to the current rules? I don't agree. The rest of your response is just disrespectful, for no reason I can readily see. If the short form write-ups and Orlanth is plenty for you, that's nice. It's not for me, and I don't think it is for a lot of other Runequest fans.

I can't really agree with that. Cults are central to Runequest and it's kind of amazing that there has been no real cults book so far for this edition. It's as important as having a bestiary or a magic book, in my opinion. I appreciate that once it's released it'll be such a comprehensive work, but I can't help but feel like it should have been a higher priority, and I definitely don't agree with the decision to delay the pdf release until the print version.

Sadly, this does not seem to be the case unless the decision to align pdf and print releases has been reversed.

Looks cool! Always nice to get some material outside of Sartar/Dragon Pass.

I would say yes, but not by roll, but rather just as narrative needs dictate (like if a character who is meant to play a major role in future events is otherwise going to be killed, and the GM doesn't have or doesn't want to create a suitable replacement)