Nick Brooke

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!

Whyever not? You don’t want your nice house to be stepped on by a Giant, do you?

Also, don’t miss this excellent review and commentary from @skulldixon: RuneQuest Adventure Review: The Smoking Ruins

It took my two RuneQuest groups maybe two and a half six-hour sessions each. First session, after using half of the time for character creation as a group (inc. family history), we jumped straight into the Clearwine scenes, mission briefing and research (up to Hastur Speculates, in my notes). Second session was for travel across Dragon Pass via Duck Point to reach the Smoking Ruin, plus initial encounters on site (ending with Hombadaka Boko / Down in Acapulco / Trolls are Going Loco). Third session for archaeological explorations, treasure-hunting, the boss fight at the Ruin, the return journey and a big festival finish. If you already have characters, you’ll have more room to breathe, but sixteen hours’ play sounds about right to me.

Pick up The Company of the Dragon, it has a playable version of the Windstop for RQG.

Spiked roofs, too. (See “A Village Near Alone.”)

I have an answer in my Manifesto, but I don’t think you’ll like it.

Now in its rightful home, at last.

Because their culture hero is Arim the Pauper, while the Kingdom of Sartar that annexed them is a phenomenally wealthy mercantile caravan-kingdom, Tarshites (inc. the East Tarshites we're talking about today) have a reputation for being miserly penny-pinchers, however undeserved, which can play out in much the same way Yorkshiremen or Scotsmen are seen in (Southern) English popular culture.

Yes. Chaosium has warehouses in the US, UK, Europe (Poland) and Australia, so once the books arrive and go on sale you’ll be able to order a copy shipped from Poland to Hungary at reasonable rates. And the Chaosium store will be selling physical books long before they’re in any FLGSs (distributors have to get them from our warehouses, just like customers who order direct from Chaosium).

You only ever get a coupon when you buy the PDF direct from Chaosium’s website store. You never get a coupon when you buy the PDF from DriveThruRPG.

I did everything I could in my scenario to tell you it ignored the canonical timeline and mashed two different events together to let your players do something original and awesome instead of following the script, but I’m sorry if you were confused.

Hi, Ron: As always, that deal only applies when you buy the digital edition directly from Chaosium's store at chaosium.com.

See the "Letter from a Monopolist" at the back of A Rough Guide to Glamour.

Well, if you're looking at the big picture, would anything stop King Argrath of Pavis (or, for example, his wicked vizier who runs the local hazia racket) from trying to set up a high-stakes heroquest involving the Aldryami of the Garden to enchant Pavis County, the way the Red Count did for Sun County at his inauguration, back in the day? Which could lead to hilarious heroquesting shenanigans, blowback and unforeseen side-effects. 10/10, would recommend.

The latter, I'm afraid. Some folk -- including me -- prepare "print-ready" versions of their books in the first place, making it easier to hit the print spec when the time comes; that isn't always an option. Chaosium is happy to help first-time print creators through the process, and smooth the way for subsequent releases: just get in touch.