Nick Brooke

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.

I've just published a catalogue of recent best-selling titles from the Jonstown Compendium. Unlike my previous best-seller lists, this only takes the last 12 months' sales into account, and doesn't sort titles by sales tier or customer ratings, which gives newer products a chance to shine. It's a free download, inc. dozens of hyperlinks. https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/443784/Jonstown-Compendium-BestSellers--Summer-2023?affiliate_id=392988

I've just published a catalogue of recent best-selling titles from the Miskatonic Repository. This only takes the last 12 months' sales into account, and is limited to English-language releases, to give some recent products a chance to shine. It's a free download, inc. dozens of hyperlinks. Let me know if this is any use to you (with comments, ratings or reviews: your choice), as if it's popular I might take a deep dive into the Miskatonic archives... https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/443795/Miskatonic-Repository-BestSellers--Summer-2023?affiliate_id=392988

I was concerned about your misrepresentation of my material. A "nightmare scenario" isn't my theory about what will happen, it's just one worst-case scenario. I encourage you to develop others, because (all together now) Your Glorantha Will Vary.

The lavishly-illustrated RuneQuest Weapons & Equipment book is your best source for material culture in our quasi-bronze age world; it's essentially the physical/material counterpart to the Red Book of Magic, which shows what manifestations of living mythology can look like. Free farmers would have "best" outfits for feast days, ceremonies and the like: they aren't all peasants in rags. Decoration isn't limited to functional Runes, it's as varied as in our own world. People like pretty things, here as there. Art is a luxury: you'll find it in temples, palaces, public places and the homes of nobles. Gloranthans can certainly distinguish between sacred and profane acts, performances, contexts and the like: the ones who can't are loony fanatics, and ordinary people shun them.

That’s not a “theory,” that’s a nightmare scenario. It says so in the section header.

There are some points in Black Spear Act 7 where adventurers can be tempted by the Devil to tolerate moral evils, and earn a Chaos Taint. There’s also two suggested “cures”: either rededicating yourself to whatever passion you betrayed (Fear, Honour, Loyalty, etc.), or else illuminating yourself until you believe that you weren’t doing anything wrong. I didn’t waste any word-count advising GMs how to handle amoral or already-illuminated adventurers, as anyone running a game for those types already has better answers than I could ever give them. (Because they’ve read and internalised Paulis Longvale’s explanation of Duty, of course.)

Harrek took you with him when he plundered the City of Wonders, and you’re wondering why you’re personally devoted to him? Mate, you’re a named supporting character who survived a Conan short story and even shared in the loot! Harrek almost certainly saved your life, knows your name, and helped you win more treasure than you’re ever going to see again! (Yes, you squandered it: he has that effect on people. But for seasons before play you lived like a King, and you owe it all to Harrek the Berserk.)

On the other hand, Harrek and the Wolf Pirates fought on the winning side in the Esrolian Civil War, and broke the Lunars at Pennel Ford. That doesn’t mean we have to like him…

No, it means it’s irrelevant. Kallyr Starbrow’s alleged posthumous career is not what the OP was asking about. She dies in Fire season of 1626, killed by Lunar assassins at the Battle of Queens.

Yeah, but that’s mythic bollocks. She’s gone from the mortal world after Queens.

In RQG canon, Kallyr Starbrow dies for good when she’s killed by Lunar assassins at the Battle of Queens, in the summer of 1626. She was still alive and sending adventurers on missions up until then. You can read about it in Vasana’s Saga in the core rulebook, and there’s a full scenario about it in The Seven Tailed Wolf. There is no connection to Gunda or Harrek. Moirades is the last Tarsh King before the incumbent, his son Tarsh King Pharandros. The book King of Sartar often gets the name wrong, calling the Tarsh King at the time of the Hero Wars “Moirades,” although other sources authoritatively tell us that Moirades died back in 1610 when Jar-eel came calling. Cunning minds have come up with more or less plausible explanations. (Mine is in The Duel at Dangerford and Crimson King; another version was in the old Unspoken Word zine, Tarsh in Flames).

Chaosium usually sells a PDF-only version for half the price of the printed book.

I’ll mention this here, in case it isn’t obvious: the Jonstown Compendium lets you use RuneQuest and Gloranthan material published by Chaosium to inspire your own original creative works. You can reference people, places, things, etc. from those sources without needing to ask anybody for permission: it’s only if you directly copy from or paraphrase an original text that you need to add separate copyright notices and permission statements to your publication’s credits. And all Jonstown Compendium works are published by Chaosium. Which means that if you want to write a fungal scenario inspired by and using the original concepts found in @Brian Duguid’s excellent book The Voralans, you can just go ahead and do it. (You would need to ask for his permission if you wanted to copy any text or statblocks into your own work, and obviously it’d make sense to cite your source material, but all the concepts are out there for anybody to use.) And the same applies to anything else that you find inspirational on the Jonstown Compendium. Stand on the shoulders of giants! (You know it makes sense.)

I think the cult writeup from Pavis is the only significant source.

If you’re after a tool for making your own VTT battle maps, check out Dungeondraft. Despite the name, it also has great features for making town and wilderness encounter maps. I used it in Citizens (the Insula roof) and Black Spear (Five Eyes). If you want modular digital terrain maps you can assemble into a VTT battle map, check out Jon Hodgson’s digital map tiles. I have the physical versions, and they’re lovely.