Nick Brooke

I have a catalogue that lists everything that came out in the first five years of the Miskatonic Repository, which flags up setting info provided by creators; it doesn’t cover 2023, though, so the most recent stuff is missing.

The recent Dark Ages scenario that leaps immediately to mind is Michael Reid’s Branches of Bone (and the print edition turned out gorgeous!). The digital version is also available in the Dark Ages of the Miskatonic Repository collection/bundle, which is well worth a look if you want to catch up, and includes some campaign-useful background stuff - occupations and road/city encounters - by Ryan Sheehan.

The Gloranthan Voices collection is here: https://wellofdaliath.chaosium.com/home/catalogue/publishers/issaries/fiction-reference/heroquest-voices/what-the-priests-say-and-what-my-father-told-me/ Scroll down the page and click on the Download button. This was a project I managed for Issaries, Inc. back in 2003, when the HeroQuest RPG came out (big red book), to complete the set of What My Father Told Me and What The Priest Says narratives for every homeland in that book (and a bunch of Elder Races to boot). Many had been published previously, most notably in the Red, Orange and Elder Secrets boxes for RQ3, but a bunch of authors (including Greg Stafford) worked to revise those and complete the set. They are not canonical, but they're unlikely to be that far out, except in weird-edge cases (e.g. what Jeff did to Greg's Malkioni West). Many of the RuneQuest: Roleplaying in Glorantha homelands are represented: Sartar (they were called "Heortlings" back in HeroQuestWorldWars days, in order to be more obscure) Esrolia Prax (specifically the Bison Tribe, but with tweaks this would cover other human Great Nations pretty well; the Orange Box version was for Sables) Grazelands (just the horsey-bois, this one ignores vendref and the FHQ so it's a bit antiquarian and narrow-minded, but obviously so was your Father) Lunar Tarsh So you're only missing Old Tarshites; there were bits and bobs about them in an old Unspoken Word book, which has been unavailable for decades. (If you need to improvise, Dad is like a bitterly resentful Lunar Tarshite loser crossed with a Sartarite rebel, while the Priestess is a more blood-for-the-blood-goddess, skulls-for-the-skull-throne version of what Esrolian or Sartarite Earth Priestesses would say). The other Voices in the set are: Dara Happa Doraddi (from the Pamaltelan plains) Dwarf Elf Esvulari (i.e. the Aeolians from Heortland) Kralorela Ludoch (Mermen) Puma People Rathori Seshnegi Teshnos Troll

Here's the Jonstown Compendium's print-on-demand buffet selection:

No, it was a Hero Wars era thing: barbaric Sartarite superhumans vs. weak and weedy civilised Pelorians. Not an edifying period for the game.

I’d go with 1%, myself. It’s easier, it gives you more manageable numbers, and a Sword of Humakt expects to have 100 initiates in his company. Player character parties, of course, are Rune-level-heavy.

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🎼There has to be an invisible sun It gives its heat to everyone There has to be an invisible sun That gives us hope when the whole day's done… 🎶 & 🎼There is no political solution To our troubled evolution Have no faith in constitution There is no bloody revolution We are spirits In the material world… 🎶

Source: Hon-eel's Descendants, by Jeff Richard, on the Well of Daliath:

The Lunar New Year ritual is described in the Glorantha Sourcebook. Moonson plays a key ceremonial role.

I think the “Hon-eel Rites” are a Red Fish: Greg used to think this was a Heron or Stork Goddess sacrifice, back when he obsessed about Heron and Stork Goddesses, so the Weedy marshes of Darjiin are perhaps more in-scope. (For some reason Dorkath is also ringing a bell. Go figure.) But YGWV, and certainly I won’t be saying Moonson is safe as long as he stays away from Ptolemy’s Theatre on the Ides of March…

“Kazkurtum” = no emperor. Check out my Manifesto for suggestive pointers.

As a community ambassador, I would urge you not to spam AI-generated text output into any of our community content programmes. We don't mind if creators choose to use random word generators (like ChatGPT), dice, tarot cards, birds or dreams as creative inputs to their work -- the Chaosium itself was famously founded after a Tarot card reading -- but we want human authorship, not text-spam, as that's what our customers expect. If you try to sell 101 scenario ideas vomited up by an AI, we'll most likely pull it as soon as we get any customer complaints.

The Royal House of Sartar has a notable predilection for screwing horses. (Including horse queens, centaurs, and presumably common-or-garden horses as well.) Just putting that out there.

No need to apologise. I like it when people agree with me. I like spawning evangelists. Carry on!

That’s the difference between Game Mastery and Game Slavery, right there.

It’s not a veto, it’s a polite question. You’re welcome to leverage my spreadsheet, if there’s something it doesn’t do that you think is worthwhile. I just don’t see the point of duplicating all that work.

“You can certainly add that sort of thing if you like.”

Here’s the Miskatonic FAQ (which links to the Guidelines and Additional Guidelines, which are where you should start). How you write and structure your stuff is up to you, but the CoC style guide on Chaosium’s website is sensible, and if you can take Paul Fricker’s Write Your First Adventure course c/o the Storytelling Collective that’ll get you off to a great start. No AI images, no AI text, no cultists as protagonists (our player characters are Investigators, not murderous lunatics). There are no canon restrictions: you can reference or contradict Chaosium’s/HPL’s version of Arkham, or characters, events, artifacts, lore, tomes, locations, etc. from our books — or not — as you see fit. This isn’t a tightly restricted programme, it’s nothing like the DMs Guild’s Dungeoncraft.

I doubt it. Because it won’t be, and those are Chaosium’s trademarks.

To save yourself some effort, why not check out my comprehensive Jonstown Compendium Catalogue (Dec 2019-Dec 2022) and regularly-updated Index (Oct 2022 up to date). If it’s a bare-bones list you’re after, the Catalogue comes bundled with a spreadsheet summary of everything it includes.

The Company of the Dragon is about joining a draconic cult.

There are examples of five different types of heroquest in Black Spear: a magic road, temple incursion, static power-up, enemy ritual and getting lost on the Other Side. In case that helps. I don’t have a Grand Unified Theory of Everything or hand my players ratings in strange new stats, but you can certainly add that sort of thing if you like.

Here's the thing: Chaosium's default expectation is that your player character party will be led by Sartarites and based out of Sartar. Sure, you can recruit some foreign hangers-on from other homelands (cf. Vasana & Co.), but the default expectation is that adventurers will mostly be kicking around Jonstown and Clearwine, doing jobs for the local Sartarite leaders. At this point, if you want to run a Praxian, Tarshite (either flavour), Grazelander or Esrolian campaign, you've only got the RQG homeland writeups and whatever you can glean from forums and older sources to build on. It is what it is.

Updated on 18 April 2023: Caravan Alley, another Praxian sandbox from Jamie Revell, which details two oases along the route that begins at Day's Rest: Tourney Altar (Humakti!) and Biggle Stone (Fungi!). Nobody is ever going to mistake a Humakti for a Fun Guy, just saying. (37 pages for $4.50.); The long-awaited final release of To Hunt A God, Austin Conrad's Esrolian monkeyquest (139 gorgeously-illustrated pages for $19.95); A photo-report showing the print-on-demand community content pop-up stores at Chaosium Con 2; Charts showing the best-selling products and new medals awarded in the first quarter of 2023; and... Crimson King's just been awarded its Electrum best-seller medal, w00t!, while Dangerford is teetering on the brink of Platinum!