Nick Brooke

It's absolute. An act can be dishonourable even if you don't think you're doing anything wrong and there are no witnesses. Your principles are irrelevant. Your weasel words are irrelevant. Your scrambling around to cover up the crime is irrelevant. You did something dishonourable: you lose Honour.

“What people think about you” is Reputation.

If you do the dishonourable act, you lose Honour. It doesn't matter if you don't think it was dishonourable; it doesn't matter if there were no witnesses; it doesn't matter if you play semantic games beforehand or afterwards to "rationalise" your dishonourable act. You did it: your Honour takes the hit. You didn't do it: you're fine and clear. No other Runes or Passions are involved.

Close enough. The biggest change is that new Illuminates don’t get every illuminated ability at once, some are rarer than others.

From my short note Mistress of the Three Worlds in the Gloranthan Manifesto, Volume Two (available free somewhere in this forum, only it’s late):

Updated again, with a few small tweaks: The Duel at Dangerford (deluxe edition) is available in print, discounted to $5.95 for the rest of this month! (The original version was $8.95, and had fewer pages) The Six Paths is now a Silver best-seller, despite being Pay What You Want! Also, the digital file has been significantly enhanced (higher-resolution artwork), and a print edition is being prepared. Chaosium and the author are donating all their royalties from this title to charity, and if you picked it up for free we encourage you to donate what you would have paid to your local LGBT+ charity. Best-seller charts updated for several recent ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ratings! (Remember, the Index is updated more frequently than my free downloadable charts of the Best-Selling RuneQuest Scenarios and Gloranthan Sourcebooks) If you've enjoyed any of your community content purchases, please consider leaving a rating or even a short review on DriveThruRPG: authors and artists really appreciate feedback, and it helps other potential customers decide what to buy.

DANGERFORD DELUXE! The print edition of The Duel at Dangerford has been upgraded to include seven pages of original artwork by Hirotsugu Kaga of Clark & Company. Commissioned for the Japanese translation by Ashinoha, this is already a free bonus download for my digital customers - if you bought the previous print edition, forward your receipt to me (email in footer) and I'll send you the new artwork. It's on sale this month for just $5.95 (previously $8.95).

Updated again on 11 May: now contains 815 entries. Also refreshed the Electrum and Silver best-seller medals (a tedious manual exercise).

Don't forget to adjust for the change in page sizes!

The Meints Index to Glorantha. Here, have a family photo: MIG (72 pages, 1996); MIG II (124 pages, 1999); prototype MIG III (264 page full-colour hardback, 2022). The first two were published by the Reaching Moon Megacorp, back in the day: the new one will be a Chaosium publication (this one's spine says CHA4504).

Updated again with Josh "Skull" Dixon's Lost in the Dark, a new kind of darkness spirit and a related adventure seed including colourful local encounters for adventurers who get lost in the dark on the road from Apple Lane to Clearwine. In other news, Edan Jones & Katrin Dirim's The Six Paths went Copper in a day (despite being Pay What You Want), and I'm hard at work preparing a print-on-demand edition. Also, I've briefly pulled the printed version of The Duel at Dangerford from sale while I wait for a proof-print of the new Deluxe Edition, inc. Japanese artwork by Mr Kaga.

Updated again, with The Six Paths - Gender among the Heortlings by Edan Jones, beautifully illustrated by Katrin Dirim. This short sourcebook (28 pages) looks at the exceptional gender roles recognised by the Orlanthi barbarians, and contains cults and stats for both RuneQuest and QuestWorlds. Cults: Heler, Nandan, Vinga (three pages each). Six sample characters illustrating Glorantha's rich diversity have a description, RQ & QW stats and full-length portrait. It's "Pay What You Want," with a suggested price of $4.00, and it's well worth that. Meanwhile, cartographer Mikael Mansen has produced a gorgeous map of the Mountains of Shadow (Halikiv) and another Gloranthan Settlement (16 so far), this time with a desert oasis ambience. While I think of it, here's the map from my Index showing which regions of Genertela have been mapped in community content.

First four-star review received, from Jason F:

Updated again, to mark Black Spear's Gold Best-Seller medal.

I handwave this stuff in Black Spear. It seems to me that if (a) the entire Colymar Tribe directed by its Queen; (b) the congregation of Five Eyes Temple at an unusually high Holy Day; (c) hundreds of Sun Dome Templars, commanded by either of their Counts; or (d) Argrath Dragonspear can’t get a heroquest started, something’s gone wrong with your Glorantha.

BLACK SPEAR is now a Gold Best-Seller at DriveThruRPG! 🥇 (We're just waiting for the new medal to be displayed) To celebrate, we’ve jumped on board the current “Best In Print” sale by cutting the prices of print-on-demand copies of A Rough Guide to Glamour, A History of Malkionism and the Jonstown Compendium Catalogue by 10%. Until the sale ends next weekend, they will be: A Rough Guide to Glamour Premium Colour Hardcover: $32.35 (was $35.95) Standard Colour Hardcover $24.25 (was $26.95) Guide pratique de Glamour Premium Colour Hardcover: €29.69 (was €32,99) Standard Colour Hardcover: €22.50 (was €25,00) A History of Malkionism Premium Colour Softcover: $13.45 (was $14.95) Jonstown Compendium Catalogue Standard Colour Softcover: $6.75 (was $7.50) All Jonstown Compendium print-on-demand titles can be found at this link.

Samastina is green-skinned (on ceremonial occasions, for sure), and she comes from the west of the Holy Country. Just saying.

We're half-way to Electrum (176 copies of A History of Malkionism sold), so the bonus content Illuminating Malkionism has expanded to 33 pages, now including The God Learners. All sixteen historical illuminations now have art direction notes, sketches, line art and related excerpts from our group chat. As always, if you could leave a rating or a review on DriveThruRPG (or just share a friendly comment on social media) it'd be greatly appreciated. I can't make more books like this if this one doesn't sell, and your feedback is extremely useful in helping other potential customers to make up their minds. Ignore the Canon Cult: seek Solace, embrace Joy!

I scribble them out on scratch paper or index cards, as and when I need them. Usually I’m just noting which limb has taken how much damage.

Kinda related, from my Gloranthan Manifesto, Volume One: there is similar advice in Drew's campaign books. You are probably best off quickly describing the equipment, weapons and magic of a generic soldier / gang member etc. rather than breaking down their skill percentages and hit location charts.

I won't update the index for this, but the phenomenally-capable Ashinoha has translated Austin Conrad @Crel's scenario The Throat of Winter, one of the Jonstown Compendium's launch titles, into Japanese (冬の喉笛), making it the sixth Japanese-language title in our community content store.

Yes, best-seller medal frequencies on the Jonstown Compendium compare very favourably to other community content programmes I've looked at, and to DriveThruRPG's averages. Limiting myself to 74 major releases (as usual, see the Catalogue for details), we currently have (counts on fingers) 1 Platinum, 8 Gold,* 20 Electrum, 29 Silver, 14 Copper and just 2 w/o any best-seller medals (yet). That's almost 40% at Electrum or higher, if you publish a RuneQuest scenario or Gloranthan setting book. The overall figure for all products on DriveThruRPG is 13%. (If you know it, I'd love to hear how Pathfinder compares). So I like our odds. * nine soon, Gods willing: my Black Spear has just 15 sales to go...

Further to Rick’s wise advice, if you create and sell a scenario or a Gloranthan sourcebook of reasonable quality, that doesn’t fall into any of the traps I mentioned above (English language, written for RQG or systemless, not set somewhere exotic, not unreasonably priced), it would be rather weird if you didn’t sell 100 copies in the first few months. (Many caveats apply, but this is based on observed outcomes for dozens of titles over nearly 2.5 years) The chart of Cumulative sales over time is particularly relevant.

Updated again, with Drew Baker's Highways & Byways - A Wayfarer's Companion. Inspired by the RuneQuest Starter Set map of Northern Sartar, Drew has produced this detailed collection of route maps and traveller’s guides around south-east Dragon Pass. As well as a plethora of hex-maps and tables of travel times and distances, this contains a short description of every major and minor route in the region, from the majestic Royal Roads of Sartar to the smallest trails in the back of beyond. 107 pages, $10.95 digital (PDF).