Nick Brooke

Updated again, with Hydra - Adventurers from the Lunar Provinces, by Peter Hart. This is an adventurer creation supplement focused on characters serving as soldiers in the Lunar Provincial Army. Originally written to support the author’s forthcoming adventure Hydra!, the highlights of the book are the expanded family history tables and timeline covering major events in Provincial history, twenty pregenerated adventurers (each with illustration and background), and a travelogue describing one sage’s journey through the Lunar Provinces from Jonstown in Sartar to Eneal in Aggar. $7.00 for 58 pages (PDF).

Jonstown Compendium community content at Dragonmeet in London, UK: here’s our print-on-demand display, and the creators’ meet-up in the hotel bar. In the group photo, at our table, L-R: Paul Fricker (co-author of Call of Cthulhu 7e & MR creator), Stuart Mousir-Harrison (prospective JC creator), Nick Brooke (Chaosium Community Ambassador & ENnie award-winning JC creator), Martin Helsdon* (Platinum best-selling JC creator & Chaosium author), Jason Durall (RuneQuest: Roleplaying in Glorantha line editor), Diana Probst (JC creator & Chaosium author), Chris Gidlow* (ENnie award-winning JC creator), Matthew Cole (prospective JC creator) and Brian Duguid (co-founder of Tales of the Reaching Moon magazine & JC creator). * - back of head

Updated again, with two new releases: The Indagos Bull by Rob Marcus is a one-shot scenario set in Pavis County. Farmer Jyles’ prize bull goes missing just before the Earth Season County Fair, and the adventurers must investigate. The scenario is presented in a loose sandbox style with several suggested resolutions, some of them hilarious. $2.95 for 26 pages (PDF). Rubble Runners, Volume 2 by Jon Hunter is a second collection of NPCs from New Pavis and the Big Rubble. Each character is presented across two pages: typically a column each for description, RQG statblock, notes on associates and plot hooks to draw in your players. $4.99 for 37 pages (PDF).

It was obvious, really: the sixth Lightbringer, a cowardly mortal dragged way out of his comfort zone on an heroic adventure he doesn't really want to participate in, isn't "Flesh Man" -- he's Flashman.

That’s sound advice, except that @Jex wants their scenario to be included in the WYFA bundle, which is a hard deadline:

Updated again on 29 November: now contains 970 entries. Brace for incoming WYFA graduate pieces!

Don't sweat it. Convenient access to cheap Resurrection spells is a game fiction to make RuneQuest playable, given the ever-present risk of critical hits etc. If every NPC in the world had the same range of powers and easy access to Resurrection as player characters do, the world would rapidly become ridiculous. (Compare any MMO game on the market: many quest stories would simply break if NPCs could do what PCs routinely do) I wouldn't waste any time writing contrived and convoluted explanations. If it ever comes up in play, just say no: the local Chalana Arroy priestess can't Resurrect anybody just now, as she's already spent her Rune points for this season healing sick kids. If you have players who like to niggle away at convenient game fictions so as to make the setting appear ridiculous, throw flaming sky-llama invasions at them until they settle down. (They'll get upset because those aren't in the rules. Good. That's the point)

I don’t see a problem: two recent JC releases were a setting plus a book of scenarios for that setting (Korolan Islands & Fires of Mingai). I’d just take extra care to be sure that the adventure stands on its own, since it’s coming out first, and from what you’re saying that isn’t an issue. One thing to bear in mind is that sales of “sequels” are usually lower every time. Not everyone who buys Book One will necessarily pick up Book Two. If they’re a single volume, though, that’s not so much of an issue…

Links: Miskatonic Repository Jonstown Compendium

Links: Jonstown Compendium Miskatonic Repository

Part of it has been published in the RQ Starter Set. The rest is “coming soon,” as they say.

That's a gorgeous cover, Paul!

The same’s true of the that turns up in my scenario The Duel at Dangerford. If I had to create an entire magic system for Lunar demonology in order to justify one Harryhausen monster turning up for my scenario’s boss fight, I’d have said “Sod this” and done something else instead.

I get the impression that's simply not the kind of demon this sorcerer knows how to summon. It's like asking "What if the Storm Voice wanted to summon a Wind Fist that didn't violently punch people, but was a skillful painter instead?" When you're writing a NPC in a scenario, you aren't ever required or expected to flesh out an entire variant magic system in the process.

Updated on 21 November with another Holiday Dorastor release: Leon Kirshtein & Simon Phipp's Moon Elves. A guide to the enigmatic Moon Elves, including a gazetteer of their groves on the Red Moon, stats, magic (including seven “dances”), a scenario and a heroquest. $6.00 for 43 pages (PDF). And speaking of adventures that take place on the Red Moon, here's a sneak peek at something coming your way soon... (Cover art by John Sumrow; illustrated by Linnea Mast, Dario Corallo and Katrin Dirim; maps and plans by Matt Ryan and Nick Brooke)

If you're a Carmanian, the top tier of their religion is essentially dualist / Manichaean, with an opposition between Idovanus the Wise Lord and Ganesatarus the Father of Lies, the Evil One. Outside of Carmania, he isn't widely known. Gloranthans aren't as absolutist about these things as you might think (absent God Learners; and the Carmanians hated the God Learners). There isn't a "Lie" Rune, so there isn't a generally-agreed Runic Owner of the concept of Lying. (Trickster has that Lie Rune spell, of course, which might point you in a certain direction; and Lanbril has a lot of useful deceptive magic. But did they invent / own "lying"? Possibly not)

Absurdly minimalist. We know that Yelmalians are happy to work with Humakti, and vice versa. There's your Bladesharp. (And Bladesharp works on "any cutting, stabbing or hacking weapon." How exactly are you wielding your spear? That may be the problem)

Have you somehow not understood what this thread is talking about?

Duh. Yanafal Tarnils = Eurmal, obviously. (He’s a killer, with a Death Rune he stole from its owner, who twists Truth)

RQ Glorantha Bestiary, p.82 Red Book of Magic, p.33

Updated again on 14 November: now contains over 950 entries. The November 2022 "Write Your First Adventure" workshop is underway, so we can look forward to a big content drop and a new bundle after the month ends. And a quick heads-up: this version of the Catalogue is now over two years old, and I intend to stop updating it in the New Year. My current plan is to launch a new version in 2023 (keeping the same low price and regular updates), perhaps with some extra bells and whistles.

From memory, issue 18 or 19. Greydog Special or Upland Marsh Special. It’s dead good!

I don’t see how you could have missed what he was asking for.

Can you explain the problem? Ian was asking for ideas he could use in his book, you contributed an idea, and you were credited in the book when he used it. Unless there’s more to the situation than meets the eye, I don’t see what the issue is.