Nick Brooke

There's no point: almost* everything from Missing Lands is in the Guide to Glorantha, so nowadays you'd just buy that instead. (* Someone will be along in a moment to tell you about stuff that was left out, but you don't need to pay attention to them: just smile politely and get on with your life.)

Nochet, Queen of Cities by Harald Smith. A phenomenally detailed, beautifully presented sourcebook for adventures and campaigns set in the Queen of Cities. Nochet is a sprawling ancient metropolis, and this 280-page book brings it vividly to life. After an introduction and overview, the main body of the text (over 150 pages) describes ten major districts of the city, including what local residents and outsiders make of it, prominent personalities, local legends, an overview of the many neighbourhoods in each district, and specific details for practically every building shown on the city map. The book is lavishly illustrated with well-chosen public-domain artwork of ancient cities and temples, for the most part, and comes bundled with a set of high-resolution maps. The last sixty or so pages introduce several established Houses of Nochet that could serve in various roles for adventurers in the city, whether as patrons, kin, allies, rivals or villains; a roster of common city-folk, complete with personalities and catchphrases; a detailed system for generating random events by hour, day, week and season; more than 400 rumours; and a playable outline for the Lunar siege of Nochet, laden with adventure hooks and event tables. It is quite impossible to conceive of anybody running a game in Nochet without referring to this rich, lovingly-crafted and eminently play-centred resource. ($24.99 for 280 pages)

Updated on 22 July 2023: Nochet, Queen of Cities by Harald Smith. A phenomenally detailed, beautifully presented sourcebook for adventures and campaigns set in the Queen of Cities. Nochet is a sprawling ancient metropolis, and this 280-page book brings it vividly to life. After an introduction and overview, the main body of the text (over 150 pages) describes ten major districts of the city, including what local residents and outsiders make of it, prominent personalities, local legends, an overview of the many neighbourhoods in each district, and specific details for practically every building shown on the city map. The book is lavishly illustrated with well-chosen public-domain artwork of ancient cities and temples, for the most part, and comes bundled with a set of high-resolution maps. The last sixty or so pages introduce several established Houses of Nochet that could serve in various roles for adventurers in the city, whether as patrons, kin, allies, rivals or villains; a roster of common city-folk, complete with personalities and catchphrases; a detailed system for generating random events by hour, day, week and season; more than 400 rumours; and a playable outline for the Lunar siege of Nochet, laden with adventure hooks and event tables. It is quite impossible to conceive of anybody running a game in Nochet without referring to this rich, lovingly-crafted and eminently play-centred resource. ($24.99 for 280 pages) Also released: more maps by Mikael Mansen (Sog City, Loral, Teleos and a Fort), a 128-page Character Campaign Book by Michael Bernth, and my free catalogue extract listing 55 of the best-selling Jonstown Compendium books from the last 12 months. (You know by now that my Catalogue and Index have the all-time best-sellers and the highest-rated releases). Plus updated quarterly sales figures and recent medal charts at the back of the Index. But wait! There's more! Ian Thompson dropped updates for his first two Pavis & Big Rubble Companions on 20 July (New Pavis; Old Pavis), so download the new versions from your Library now. He hopes to get Volume Three out this month, so we all have that to look forward to. And finally, DriveThruRPG's Christmas in July sale will be running until the end of the month, with many Jonstown Compendium works available at up to 25% off their usual digital price.

Elder Secrets, Secrets Book (1988):

Definitely pick up The Queen’s Star, it’s great stuff. A little pocket of the Other Side, smouldering away in the Cinder Pits since before Time began. I loved it!

There’s a Doraddi “What My Uncle Sang To Me“ by Jimbo in the Gloranthan Voices collection.

Polaris is more of a Star General, IYSWIM. Think: heavenly warriors, descending from their celestial strongholds on high in the Darkness to defend mortals against the untold horrors of the Storm Age, when all of those unleashed trolls and water gods and barbarians and chaos gribblies were rushing around causing so many problems. Shining armour, blazing weapons, and a fearless dedication to the fight. (No Prime Directive, that’s something else.) They fought the good fight, they saved their people, and that’s why we still pray to them every night. (Other opinions exist.)

The Prosopaedia and the Glorantha Sourcebook are two superb companion volumes to the Guide to Glorantha, which has surprisingly little mythological detail. (The Mythology book will complement them nicely, in a few months’ time.)

Prosopaedia. Revealed Mythologies.

Haymon's Gate is described (non-canonically) in Black Spear, which I commend to you: A regimental dinner is held in the Town Hall ("(the designated regimental mess for visiting military units"), with pre-dinner drinks on the roof. HTH. I didn't notice the triumphal arch while I was visiting, but I'm sure it's there.

With thanks to everyone who's rated or reviewed this free catalogue so far, I've expanded it with a couple more pages. Look for v3 in your DriveThruRPG library.

Thanks to everyone who's rated my free catalogue: I've expanded it to showcase 55 products over nine pages, and have merged the two sections (which made it hard to maintain). You'll find v2 in your Library on DriveThruRPG.

If you can get him into a temple (or other sanctified ground), you might be able to bounce him into being an involuntary participant in a heroquest ritual, which could seriously limit his ability to go off-script. But that's mostly a GM call.

Slap him in a slave collar: see "Cults of Prax" for details.

Of course you can use Chaosium’s IP in Chaosium’s community content programme. That’s how it’s supposed to work.

This illustration features the Imperial Warlord, Bellex Maximus, and not the Full Moon Corps, but he goes to the same outfitters. (Cover art for Crimson King by John Sumrow).

Please find attached a guide by John Crowdis called Converting and publishing a Roll20 Scenario on the Miskatonic Repository. Call of Cthulhu community content creators are entirely welcome to convert and publish Roll20 scenarios on the Miskatonic Repository. If you discover any interesting nuances applicable to creating Roll20 community content, feel free to share them in this thread. If you have the technical savvy to convert your own work for the Roll20 platform, you can do so with our blessing. If you don't, either make friends with someone who can help you out, or else read guidance (e.g. linked above or from the shared blogpost) and practice until you get the hang of it. Converting and Publishing a Roll20 Scenario on the Miskatonic Repository.pdf

Please find attached a guide by John Crowdis called Converting and publishing a Roll20 Scenario on the Miskatonic Repository. RuneQuest and Glorantha community content creators are entirely welcome to convert and publish Roll20 scenarios on the Jonstown Compendium. We won't be converting this guidance document at this point (e.g. "for doomed cosmic horror investigations read mythological bronze-age heroism throughout"), but the basic principles are the same. If you discover any nuances that are applicable to RuneQuest community content, feel free to share them in this thread. OneBookShelf threw the doors open at the end of May with this blog-post: Roll20xDTRPG: Roll20 and DriveThruRPG, Together, but they did it vaguely and in moonspeak. "DriveThruRPG Partners" means community content creators as well as publishers; the current guidance for the Jonstown Compendium community content programme is "GO FOR IT!" If you have the technical savvy to convert your own work for the Roll20 platform, you can do so with our blessing. If you don't, either make friends with someone who can help you out, or else read guidance (e.g. linked above or from the shared blogpost) and practice until you get the hang of it. Converting and Publishing a Roll20 Scenario on the Miskatonic Repository.pdf

I strongly recommend picking up the first two DuckPac books from the Jonstown Compendium: either the combo print edition, or else the separate digital downloads. By Neil Gibson and Drew Baker, they are both highly-rated Electrum best-sellers (Book 1 has 17 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ratings, Book 2 has 11). Book 1: Myths, Legends & Lore presents the mythos and history of the race of Ducks, while Book 2: Duck Adventurers gives you adventurer creation inc. family history, rules advice, and a home base on the edge of the Upland Marsh.

If you post that on the “Miskatonic Repository Creators Circle“ Facebook group, you’ll be swamped with replies. Just saying.

Page 114, RH column, second paragraph.

Re-read the cult writeup. Storm Bull cultists are total assholes, even to other Praxians.

Darius wants “Detect Evil” spells in his Glorantha, and that’s fine: HGWV. The rest of us know that the Storm Bull’s PTSD is the only semi-reliable way to detect Chaos. If a common-or-garden Spirit Magic spell could do the same, why would anyone tolerate those louts?

Thanks: I'll tweak my various docs 'n' stats.