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Obviously lots of people want to go to Dorastor...
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A Rough Guide to Boldhome - out now in print & PDF
Nick Brooke replied to Nick Brooke's topic in RuneQuest
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Check its Runes, Simon. I know you're from Dorastor, but even so...
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Crimson Bat worshippers are Chaos cultists, good citizens don't emulate them. They're all kinds of f**ked up.
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Maps have always sold badly. The best-sellers are regional maps for published campaigns: Anders Tönnberg's Balazar Maps are a Silver best-seller (101-150 sales), and his Elder Wilds, Dorastor and South Pelorian maps are all Copper (51-100). Dario Corallo's gorgeous Big Rubble and Dorastor Maps are Copper, and his Pamaltela Map is within 10 sales of Copper. Mikael Mansen's map of Dragon Pass is Copper, his Jonstown Area map is almost Copper, and none of his other maps has sold more than 35 copies (the ones that sell best are of published campaign settings: Elf Sea, Eastern Rockwoods and Upland Marsh). The hex map of the River of Cradles just made Copper. The dirt-cheap Rainbow Caves map is five from Copper. Setting those 14 aside, the other 82 maps on the Jonstown Compendium have sold an average of 10 copies each.
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In my Glorantha (and Your Glorantha Will Vary), the Seven Mothers can sometimes be associated with transitions between phase-states, rather than the phases themselves. Teelo Norri is Full => Full Half (Verithurusa), Jakaleel is Full Half => Crescent Going (Lesilla), Deezola is Crescent Going => Dying (Gerra), and so on and so forth. But YGWV.
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I think this change (and it was a conscious change, before the typo-theorists start up) was motivated by (a) the desire to have Queen Deezola more strongly associated with Gerra, the ancient Black Moon goddess of suffering, (b) the obvious associations between Jakaleel the Witch, the troll-haunted Blue Moon Plateau, the lost city of Mernita, and therefore Lesilla/Cerullia, the ancient Blue Moon Goddess who is linked to the Crescent-Going phase of the moon, and (c) the common-sense association between Jakaleeli Witches, the horns of the crescent moon, and sickles used to slice bits off naughty children who ask irritating questions.
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@MOB is the best person to respond.
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Another book you might want to check out is Pavis County & Beyond: Secrets of the Borderlands by @Ian A. Thomson and friends, which includes notes on running a hybrid Borderlands/Pavis campaign. The Sandheart scenarios that won't work well IMO are Tradition (Book 3) and Mad Prax: Beyond Sun Dome (half of Book 4), as they assume a Yelmalian party carrying out cult duties for the Sun Dome Temple. I think the rest could work just fine: you'll need to tweak temple archives in The Corn Dolls, as there won't be any ancient tablets recording harvests in the brand-new Weis Domain, but maybe Duke Raus is building neighbourly relations by lending his troubleshooters to the Guardian of Sun County, as she doesn't trust her local militia to deal with a sensitive situation...
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Here you go: best-seller medals in each product category (as per my Catalogue), using current data. The two bumper-size December Monsters of the Month are counted as RuneQuest Scenarios. The chart on p.199 of the 2023 Catalogue has a more sophisticated presentation, but I'm not planning to update that for a while yet.
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I’ll crunch some numbers for you tomorrow, if I can find the time. For QuestWorlds-only titles, it’s easy: there are 5 releases for that system — one Electrum, three Silver, one Copper.
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I would not expect one of those any time soon.
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From memory: The Red Vexillum, Indissoluble Union, Men of Furthest and Hon-eel’s Song (“Ever Lunar”), but not (alas!) Marching Through Sartar.
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FYI @mfbrandi, the QW SRD was "pulled as a JC target" because bad actors coached people in ways they could abuse the clear intent of the Jonstown Compendium's rules by creating retroclones of unsupported games. ("You can publish material for Hero Wars and 1e HeroQuest on the JC, even though Chaosium told you not to do that, if you reimplement those rulesets using the QW SRD" -- bad idea.) QW community content sales are low, and there are hardly any QW products on the store, despite the lack of barriers to entry and the relative ease of writing statless scenarios. (I hate writing statblocks, but I publish for RuneQuest because that's where all the customers are.) Only one of them has made it to Electrum best-seller (the wonderful Valley of Plenty, once again available as a digital edition after a lengthy hiatus). This is how the market tells you that suppliers and customers aren't interested. If I were you, I wouldn't expect a HQG retrofit genre pack any time soon.
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I ran Chris Gidlow's freeform scenario Young Thrax (a Tarsh War prequel) for the first time in quite a while. The blurb: I didn't warn the players that it was also a Singalong, but they rose magnificently to the occasion. I sadly couldn't make it to Harald's seminar on Nochet, as I was setting up the community content store at the time. And I played as Prince Temertain in Home of the Bold, but since it's going to be run again in the UK and Australia I don't want to post any spoilers. The cast was energetic, the costumes were magnificent, the pace was hectic, and I was happy with my personal outcome. Ludo Chabant's stuffed hawk gave me the idea of turning my scholarly beard into a detachable Allied Spirit, which made for good puppeteering fun.
