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  1. Updated again on 6 November: The Sanctum of Sarkath Han, by Magnus Seter and Robert Dudock: inspired by Steve Perrin’s short Magic World scenario The Vault of Sarkath Han, this classic sword-and-sorcery sandbox adventure gives players an environment filled with denizens and challenges, from the Aldryami and other creatures of the Iron Forest to the demon-haunted sanctum of a long-dead sorcerer. It’s beautifully presented. ($9.99 for 50 pages) Plus another Smol Snek two-pager, Eurmal's Truth, and a well-earned Electrum best-seller medal for Martin Helsdon's Ships & Shores, just two months after its release. Please consider leaving a rating or even a short review on DriveThruRPG for any Jonstown Compendium books you've particularly enjoyed: the creators really appreciate it, it helps other potential customers make up their mind, and your best quotes could make it into this year's printed Jonstown Compendium Catalogue.
  2. By analogy with Greek Christos (Christ) > Christianos (Follower of Christ), I believe. That’s ultimately where we get the -ian ending from in English. Not -ion.
  3. There's a whole Jonstown Compendium campaign with this premise: it's called The Company of the Dragon.
  4. 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.
  5. More details from the horse’s mouth (Amy Kate is the book’s co-author):
  6. 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.
  7. 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!
  8. Drew says it should be “Yelmalians,” not “Yelmalions,” and he’s a linguist, so I go with that nowadays.
  9. You're welcome to post older(ish) books for sale in the "RuneQuest" Facebook group.
  10. I agree: it might have been clearer to write “The Glorantha Sourcebook contains…”rather than “This edition contains…”
  11. You can tally the days of a fortnight using your knuckles, which is handy. (I slay myself!)
  12. Ah, maybe you linked to the wrong post. I found this elsewhere:
  13. Could you kindly quote the text from that linked post that makes you think there are corrections?
  14. 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.
  15. I was commenting directly after Svensson’s sunny optimism.
  16. Gloranthan Ephemeris README and data files. The Gloranthan Ephemeris - README.pdf Date49.xlsx Star49.xlsx
  17. That’s an efficient way to tell us you haven’t read “King of Sartar”…
  18. In other words, there really was an elephant in the room with all those blind men.
  19. I still have the README file for my old Visual Basic Ephemeris somewhere, if that’d be useful to anybody.
  20. 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.
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