Nick Brooke

On the one hand, Invisible God. On the other hand, Invisible Spear. Do what any good Carmanian would do: reach a point of balance, and understand.

Ahem. The word is unpersons. “Unpersons seem to like that motif.” I confidently assert, with impeccable lexicographical backing, that no actual persons in our divinely-ordered Empire like the prospect of a Lunar Civil War. By definition.

Let’s tag @David Scott, he knows all about forum architecture and storage limits and suchlike. (From my limited perspective, one top-level post with an ever-updating thread in the RuneQuest forum would seem fine: you’re writing for RuneQuest, it’s just one subject, and people will learn to stay away if they’re not interested) You can edit subject lines to highlight new content drops - look at the way my JC Index post always tells you when it was last updated.

Updated on 24 October with the latest Holiday Dorastor release: Simon Phipp's extravaganza Ragnaglar's Breath. Orlanth is Dead... and now a bad wind is blowing out of Dorastor. When chaotic weather erupts, the adventurers must journey to the Other Side to save the people of Riskland. Although notionally set in Riskland in 1621, it would be easy enough to rearrange or relocate. $3.60 for 30 pages (PDF). Also updated with recent best-seller medals (DuckPac goes Electrum! New Pavis goes Silver! Yay!), recent reviews and ratings (moar! moar!), and prettier rating stars.

And another post, this time focusing on living heroes and Rune magic: https://www.facebook.com/groups/RuneQuest/permalink/2125263854316269/

Here's @Jeff talking about living gods on our Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/RuneQuest/permalink/2156516517857669/

Remember to leave a rating and (if you want) a short review on DriveThruRPG: it really helps other potential customers to make up their minds. (Ian will appreciate it, too!)

Previews on DriveThruRPG are very flaky, so don’t be surprised if you have to fiddle with them every time you change a file. The interface gives the impression it’s all done when you set up a new title, but the defaults usually don’t work.

Pro tip: I'd suggest throwing up a new thread in the RuneQuest forum, whose title matches the name of the book. Out Now in PDF: New Pavis - City on the Edge of Forever! But that's just me. You could link it back to this 14-page monstrosity in a different forum, if you like, but I'm not sure I'd bother. It gives people a place to talk about the book you just released (that they've hopefully bought), rather than wade through the reams of technical issues you encountered putting it together.

Congratulations on the updated title (great choice!), and the rapid best-seller status!

Updated again on 20 October: it never rains but it pours (and I got soaked today)! Two new books by Hannu Rytövuori, David Cake and Nils Weinander kick off a new series called Hero Wars in the East Isles, unrelated to Scott Crowder's Pirates of the East Isles. Volume 1: Korolan Islands is an East Isles campaign sourcebook, detailing the peoples in and around the Korolan archipelago, including basic setting information, cult writeups for the island gods and higher gods, two new magic systems (mysticism and martial arts), and character creation rules for five groups of islands. $9.99 for 91 pages (PDF). Volume 2: Fires of Mingai is an East Isles starter campaign, containing a detailed gazetteer and four adventures set on the Korolan Islands of Mingai and Sitoro. The authors suggest at least one adventurer should be a native of the Korolan Islands (described in Volume 1), and they will mostly be undertaking quests to benefit their community, their temples and their queen. $14.99 for 129 pages (PDF). In other news, the hastily-retitled New Pavis: City on the Edge of Forever got its Copper best-seller medal (for over 50 sales) on day one, and continues to surge ahead!

Updated on 19 October, with two major releases: Ian Thomson & Friends' City on the Edge of Forever is a must-buy for anyone with a campaign set in Pavis and the Big Rubble. The first volume in an updated Pavis & Big Rubble Companion series (previously published by Tentacles Press back in the noughties), like Simon Phipp’s Secrets of Dorastor, it massively expands on the previous material, with articles detailing the Lunars in Prax, Knowledge Temple, several cult writeups or expansions (for Pavis, Donandar, Zola Fel, Yelmalio Bird Rider, and a gaggle of Praxian Spirit Cults), a Pavis County gazetteer, many NPC statblocks and more besides. The last fifty or so pages are adventure seeds, detailed encounters and the first part of a scenario that takes the adventurers on a journey across Pavis County. “Welcome back to the Real City!” (NB: if you are lucky enough to own the original editions, this is the Director’s Cut, converted to RuneQuest and with plenty of new material added: don’t miss out! Ian Thomson worked closely with Greg Stafford on the secret lore of Pavis, back in the day). $17.50 for 201 pages (PDF). The long-awaited Japanese translation of A Rough Guide to Glamour, with glorious new cover and internal artwork, cleaned-up cartography, and helpful footnotes explaining our obscure nineties Dad jokes to a foreign audience. ¥2,000 for 120 pages (PDF).

There has been no visible activity "behind the scenes." Just putting that out there.

You can do it yourself, you know? It doesn't take any time. If Fabian is trying to upload community content via a publisher account, I hate to think what could be going wrong...

A Rough Guide to Glamour is now available in a Japanese translation, featuring gorgeous new cover and VIP artwork by Yoshihide Yano.

I posted a bit about Pol Joni musical instruments and traditions on Facebook a while back: Nobody stopped me, so it got worse: Plenty of discussion following that last one: https://www.facebook.com/groups/gloranthafans/posts/1227809374083830/, including these highlights:

There are better business games, if you like fantasy spreadsheet sims. RuneQuest is essentially a game about heroic bronze age adventures. Nobody else is writing horse sim adventures or sourcebooks, so you'll have to roll your own. You could even sell them on the Jonstown Compendium when they're finished: there might be a market for this. (Stranger things have happened)

Both are true.

We’re discussing what role (if any) Lodril has in Sartar (and elsewhere) to empower players and game masters to do original and creative things in Glorantha. Not to crush them beneath the dead weight of orthodoxy. I’ve learned some interesting things from this two page chat, and I hope you have too.

That's the genius of Citizens. Seriously, if you haven't read it yet, it's well worth a look. Citizens of the Lunar Empire, by Chris Gidlow: $19.95 for 174 pages, at the Jonstown Compendium; also available as a print-on-demand hardcover. The book has 27 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ratings and ten rave reviews.

No, he's in Apartment IV/5.

Oh, the Lodril priest in Citizens is a lovely character. (Awful to his daughter-in-law, of course). "Cyriel is always ready to share his opinion on three subjects as if they were central tenets of the Cult of Lodril, as indeed they might be. Young men these days have no idea how to do a hard day's work for a fair day's pay. Men who live in Glamour are completely soft. They have no idea how hard life is back in Doblian. And a woman's place is in the home. The bosses, though, they are the worst. All back handers with the Associations or fixed by the Senate. If they carry on as they are, there'll be a smouldering rebellion, that is for sure..."

Updated again on 15 October 2022. New format for the review listings; several new bundles, including the Halloween 2022 Collection and the Miskatonic Repository Convention (which is happening even as I type this update!). And speaking of bundles, every single Call of Cthulhu scenario published following the Summer 2022 Write Your First Adventure workshop is now a Silver bestseller, with over 100 copies sold. (I understand the next course will run in November)

Not what you were asking for, but we do have a picture of a diphallic Lodril shrine image in Citizens of the Lunar Empire.

Also allows the GM to have the Sun Dome Templars be vindictively inept and useless if the Militia ever tries to rely on them. They want Vega’s prize crew to fail.