Nick Brooke

From my old piece on The Oronin Valley:

It’s OK to carry them (“bear arms” - these people are barbarians, after all: taking away their weapons is seen as symbolic castration*), but you would break hospitality if you were ever to wield them (“bare arms” - and note that this is short of striking a blow). (Odaylans, of course, retain the right to arm bears.) * cf. the Lunar peace terms after Starbrow’s Rebellion, accurately depicted here.

More details from the horse’s mouth (Amy Kate is the book’s co-author):

Don’t panic, @The Ancient One - the authors got so many inquisitive emails they decided to temporarily suspend sales of Japan - Empire of Shadows until the new hardcover print edition is available. It should be back on sale in all formats in less than a month, if all goes well.

Nonsense. Potatoes turn up in both our foundational sources, White Bear & Red Moon and Cults of Prax. You’ve been listening to Potato Boy’s quixotic blandishments: snap out of it!

Drew says it should be “Yelmalians,” not “Yelmalions,” and he’s a linguist, so I go with that nowadays.

You're welcome to post older(ish) books for sale in the "RuneQuest" Facebook group.

Capybara People or GTFO.

Lulu is a POD seller. Those are all PODs.

I agree: it might have been clearer to write “The Glorantha Sourcebook contains…”rather than “This edition contains…”

You can tally the days of a fortnight using your knuckles, which is handy. (I slay myself!)

Ah, maybe you linked to the wrong post. I found this elsewhere:

Could you kindly quote the text from that linked post that makes you think there are corrections?

When the Sourcebook first came out, it contained revised, updated and expanded content drawn from a variety of long out-of-print and rare sources. This is still the case.

I was commenting directly after Svensson’s sunny optimism.

Gloranthan Ephemeris README and data files. The Gloranthan Ephemeris - README.pdf Date49.xlsx Star49.xlsx

That’s an efficient way to tell us you haven’t read “King of Sartar”…

In other words, there really was an elephant in the room with all those blind men.

I still have the README file for my old Visual Basic Ephemeris somewhere, if that’d be useful to anybody.

You need to learn to read Greg better. He is speaking in-world, and makes several obviously untrue statements in his explanation of why truth is inconsistent. Later in that same section, his Gloranthan narrative voice says: “Similarly, the myth of the Red Goddess is a lie. We all know that violating the Cosmic Compromise and changing the God Time lets Chaos back into the world and threatens the destruction of the cosmos.” This, too, is self-evidently “not the whole truth,” however confidently it is stated by whatever number of Gloranthan narrators. Untruth is inescapable.

Per the Guide, the Glowline reaches its greatest extent at the end of every Wane, shrinking to its smallest in the middle. So perhaps the AAA map was more-or-less accurate for 1621, but sadly outdated by 1625? 😉

The Argan Argar Atlas was clearly inaccurate. Here's the map from Dragon Pass, showing Slave Wall on the edge of the Glowline:

Adventurers going to the Spike, and the choices they make while they're there, become part of the reason for it blowing up. Leave perfection to the gods: mortals can't hack it.

I'd suggest contacting Michael O'Brien (email: mob at chaosium dot com) - this sounds like a licensing or business development inquiry, it definitely isn't something that you could do via the community content programme. If MOB isn't the right person, he'll be able to point you in the right direction.