Nick Brooke

I have seen a very similar Rune traced on the walls of Glamour brothels. Just saying.

That's frankly unlikely. The PDF uses the Word layout and is in colour, while the print edition is a new InDesign version that was prepared for B&W printing. I don't feel any great urge to return to this and colour things in, when there's a perfectly serviceable colour PDF already.

Martin Helsdon's magisterial tome The Armies and Enemies of Dragon Pass is now available in print-on-demand hardcover format from the Jonstown Compendium store on DriveThruRPG, for $39.95 plus postage. 384 pages, colour covers and black & white interiors.

It's the update you've been waiting for: Martin Helsdon's magisterial tome The Armies & Enemies of Dragon Pass is now available as a print-on-demand hardcover for $39.95, with colour covers and black & white interiors.

Updated again, with Burning Engines, November's Monster of the Month by Mason J. Street. Powerful Mostali constructs animated by fire elementals: yours for just $1.00. The Thanksgiving Sale Black Friday/Cyber Monday sale runs over the weekend, with many titles at 20% off. And in other news The God Skin & Mad Prax: Sandheart Volume Four is now a Silver Best-Seller (over 100 copies sold): hurrah! Oh, and I've discounted the JC Index 2021 to just $1.00 (and the 2020 edition to just $0.50) while the sale is live, if you want to know what's worth buying. Between them, they describe everything on the store, ranked by sales tier and customer ratings.

There was a useful follow-up discussion, archived here.

Again with the simplistic takes, the refusal to engage with complex material. Knock yourself out, @icebrand, I'm done here.

OK, we're talking about a Fantasy Role-Playing Game, and I admit I do sometimes get alarmed when I hear the Fantasies some folk want to Role-Play. (You come across people who morbidly focus on abusive slave-ownership, exploring wht goes on in brothels, defining cultural enemies as subhuman, wanting to justify authentic Bronze Age atrocities, and so forth). Once players start saying "I want my character to commit war crimes while feeling morally justified," my alarm bells usually go off. (Yes, I've run games at cons and clubs. Yes, I have had problematic players. Yes, Session Zero is a very useful thing, especially re: lines & veils) Further to that, I resent the simplistic approach some folk take to the complex moral questions baked into Glorantha. Once you decide, as a matter of objective external truth, that certain beliefs held inside Glorantha are objectively Wrong, you won't be able to engage properly with the material as written, while major aspects of the setting will be wasted on you. So: anyone you meet in Pavis, Borderlands or Sartar will agree that Broo are a terrible threat and ought to be mercilessly exterminated, and to be frank I think they're right. But not everyone in Glorantha believes that -- some Broo demonstrate by their actions that it's an over-simplification -- and one major Gloranthan culture actively champions the idea that Chaotic creatures might be capable of being "healed" in a perfected cosmos. (And not by some wonderful Final Solution to the Chaos Problem)

cf. this bit from the RuneQuest Submission Guidelines: This stuff is meant to make you think.

Just like someone who doesn't treat civilians that way, hey?

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If you ask situational questions in character, you'll get different answers. If you make universal statements such as: "I fantasise about war crimes, but it's OK because broo aren't people," you've already seen the answers you'll get. That's an attempt to strip out nuance and complexity from the setting, rather than (let's say) looking for pointers when role-playing a character who lacks nuance and complexity. They're two very different things. People with blinkered takes on Glorantha ("The Lunars are chaotic evil!") tend to get short shrift, because they aren't engaging their critical faculties. In the situations you describe, pretty much everyone in Glorantha would happily howl, "Exterminate all the brutes!" -- which ought to make you think.

It wasn't presented as a roleplaying question, it was presented as a question of fact. A lot of Glorantha's appeal derives from the moral complexity of questions like this: boiling it down to a simplistic D&D alignment system is missing the point. Broo are sentient, they are intelligent, they are fully capable of worshipping the non-Chaotic gods of Glorantha and receiving their Rune power, and I don't think anybody would argue with any of that. I grant you that imbecile knuckle-dragging Storm Bull types would kill the Wild Healer of the Rockwoods as happily as they'd murder innocent Lunar civilians or harmless Broo toilet attendants, and would do it "in character," and so I'd advise any GM with problematic players to have a robust Session Zero discussion about just what fantasies they want to entertain in their games. (FWIW, saying "I want to feel justified in carrying out war crimes" would get you booted from my sessions: that's not my idea of a fun time)

I don't fantasise about committing war crimes, so I'm going to stay out of this one. I'll just mention that declaring your enemies to be "not people" has an ignoble heritage.

Print editions are now available: standard colour hardcover $21.95 or premium colour hardcover $30.95 (plus postage). The God Skin & Mad Prax: Sandheart Volume Four

Updated again, adding details for the print edition of The God Skin & Mad Prax: Sandheart Volume Four by Jonathan Webb and Michael O'Brien (plus fixing a rogue page-break that got itself into the wrong place somehow).

Both products sold out from the UK warehouse. You need to get your skates on. 😉

Updated again on 23-Nov-21: now includes over 670 titles.

Updated again, with Anaxial's Manifest by Jamie Revell: an eclectic bestiary expansion that adds 46 new creatures and spirits to RuneQuest. It stands alone, and does not rely on the author's previous Malkioni works. Animals include prehistoric megafauna of Pamaltela; monsters range from the Carmanian Griffin and Granite Rhino to the Storm Tigers and Sea Dragons of the distant East; embodied spirits include Dara Happan underworld guardians, physical manifestations of Uleria’s Love and the nötörïöus Bögglës. Please remember to rate and review your favourite Jonstown Compendium purchases on DriveThruRPG ahead of our community content programme's second birthday...

And? We have always said that contributing to high-quality community content works is one of the best ways to get recognised by Chaosium as a potential contributor to their official product lines. Here is yet more proof.

@Jason Dpointed out on Facebook that this is the aftermath of that encounter: you can see the damage they took fighting the Krarshtkid.

Updated again, with Denjāfōdo no Kettō (デンジャーフォードの決闘), Ashinoha's superb Japanese translation of my Gold best-selling scenario The Duel at Dangerford. If you bought the digital edition of my scenario in English, log in and check your Library on DriveThruRPG for some wonderful art goodies: a 16-page booklet of Dangerford Art by Hirotsugu Kaga, a ZIP archive of his high-resolution artwork to use in your own games (at the table or online), and Dangerford Deluxe - a revised layout for the scenario adding seven pages of new art. If you bought the print edition, email me the receipt and I'll forward you the art booklet (only). I have no plans at present to bring Dangerford Deluxe out in print. Best-seller medals, reviews and ratings also generally refreshed. Also of note: to mark the release of The God Skin & Mad Prax (Sandheart Volume Four), Jonathan Webb has discounted the first three Sandheart books by $2.00 in every format, and Stone and Bone from Beer With Teeth (Diana Probst & Kristi Herbert) is now an Electrum best-seller: w00t!! Finally, a request: if you've been meaning to add ratings or reviews for any Jonstown Compendium purchases, but never quite get round to it, please try to make your mark before the end of this month. Our community content programme's second birthday is coming up, and I have plans to celebrate it in style!

The discount code is emailed to you at the same time the print edition goes on sale. If you missed one, contact Dustin at customerservice@chaosium.com and he'll help you out.

No: because of Eurmal.

To celebrate the recent release of the fourth and final Sandheart volume, The God Skin & Mad Prax, Jonathan Webb has knocked two dollars off the price of the previous three books, in both print and PDF formats. Just $9.95 digital or $19.95 cheap hardcover for: Tales of the Sun County Militia The Corn Dolls & Fortunate Sun Tradition