Nick Brooke

Could also be Lunes, Selenes, Madness Spirits (Jonstown Compendium)... I have a particularly nasty Lunar Demon in "The Duel at Dangerford," but that's really just a GW Demon Prince run through a Ray Harryhausen blender. "Demon" is just another name for "hostile otherworld entity," after all.

Well, that's gratifying.

If you picked up my new scenario yesterday, you should be able to leave a rating or review on DriveThruRPG today (there's a short pause built into the system, to make sure you've had time to read any new product before you review it). I'd really appreciate positive customer feedback, or constructive suggestions! https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/307504/The-Duel-at-Dangerford?affiliate_id=392988

Review! Jorthan's Rescue Redux - review.pdf

She lies. All affiliate link money is squandered on gin. It is known.

Yup. Check out Scotty's photos of the contents pages, upthread.

That nonsense always did made me laugh. I needed a Big Secret for the defector to leak, and now I spend my spare time wondering how long it'll be until our heroes infiltrate the sinister ghost palace on the Dark Side of the Moon to take down the shadowy necromancer-lord behind Lunar Tarsh.

(shrug) That's not how it happened in my campaign. I don't really have the bandwidth for hypotheticals.

First cult in the book, of course.

Wikimedia FTW. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Le_Brun,_Charles_-_Horatius_Cocles_defending_the_Bridge_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg

I approve this plan. Keep one in the shrink, and use the other one for gaming.

Public domain artwork FTW! This is Horatius Cocles Defending the Bridge, painted by Charles Le Brun in 1642 (ish). It's kinda-sorta relevant to the scenario.

OK, I’ve just uploaded my new short RuneQuest scenario to the Jonstown Compendium: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/307504/The-Duel-at-Dangerford?affiliate_id=392988 It's called The Duel at Dangerford. The scenario itself is a couple of dozen pages long, and since only gamemasters and confirmed non-combatants are ever likely to pick it up, I thought it’d be a good place to share some colourful ideas I came up with for The Smoking Ruin and The Dragon of Thunder Hills as appendices. Rated the "Hottest Community Content" on DriveThruRPG! "This is wonderful. The absolute love for the setting hits you straight in the mouth." -- Michael Kirkbride, Concept Artist & Writer for Morrowind.

ERRATA: for “of Swing” read “of Sylila,” throughout. (Bloody autocorrect)

Sure. If you spot a typo after the book is released, let me know (a quick email to nick at etyries dot com is probably best) and we'll do a cleaned-up version. (PDFs are fun! Remember to check your DriveThruRPG library for updated PDFs) NB: "Sultan" is not a typo.

Download and install the font, then go to your Windows/Fonts directory and check out the Font settings (LH menu). You're looking for Font embeddability (bottom bar). Apologies if you're not a Windows user, but that's the place I know to look. (Your method works too - this is faster) Alternatively: right-click the installed font, go to Properties > Details and see what it says there. Cheers, Nick

Thank you, Simon. So you know: we are waiting on one last full-page piece of finished art (for which the composition and detail sketches I've seen are utterly beautiful), and then the content is done. I'd like to launch PDF sales as soon as possible after that; it will still take a while for any POD options to become viable (because of the need for negotiations, printing proofs, delivery times, proofing printed proofs, correcting errors, etc.), so we probably won't let that hold us back from releasing the finished book digitally.

I'm sorry if my advertising strategy has upset you, g33k. As our forthcoming book A Rough Guide to Glamour is likely to be of interest to RuneQuest players as well as Glorantha fans, I advertised it in both those forums. I'm not aware of any way to have exactly the same discussion in both places (and also crossing over to Facebook, Twitter, etc.), and I'm not sure it would be a good idea.

I refer the hon. poster to my earlier reply. Show me some examples of titles you’d prefer, made-up “wonderful new terms” you’ve used in your own games and writings, and then let’s talk. Until then, I’ll keep using English, like Greg did.

Wikipedia, “Sultan,” first paragraph: “a powerful governor of a province within the caliphate.” I am not making this up. I don’t care what you learned from Sinbad movies. Read more history books.

We seem to be on much the same wavelength, here. The thing to remember is that the Lunar Empire is a complex, multi-ethnic unifying state. A hegemonic overculture, comprised of people from anywhere and everywhere who have philosophically adopted the Lunar Way, currently lords it over the Pelorian bowl and parts beyond. Greg Stafford used to compare it to the Hellenistic period, when places as far-flung and diverse as Greece and Egypt, Phoenicia and Persia, Macedonia and Bactria were (at least notionally) part of a single cultural oikumene, one that didn't eradicate the differences between its component peoples but rather celebrated them. And from the Hellenistic period we have images of Macedonian Generals and their descendants dressed as Egyptian Pharaohs, Greek Gods, Persian Shahs... so at the level of rulers and their courts, it's surely meant to be a heady and confusing mix. Creators of Glorantha have always revelled in the cultural mashups that occur when peoples and ideas encounter each other, clashing to set sparks flying or else fusing into strange new forms. In terms of imagery, it might help to think of yourself as the costume designer for a sword-and-sandal epic, not an historically accurate documentary. You'll probably have more fun that way, too.

OK, I’ll bite. Could you give me examples from your own Gloranthan games? What titles would you use, or prefer us to use, for eg: the Red Emperor, the King of Dragon Pass, the Queen of the Colymar Tribe, the Chieftain of the Greydog Clan, the Bull Khan you meet at the Block, the General commanding the Lunar Army and the Captain of the local garrison?

That "baggage" is often useful. It inspires, it provokes, it suggests.

My own Lunars are Hellenistic Greco-Romano-Persian-Arabian-Byzantine-Ottoman-French Revolutionary-Victorian-Soviet-Ingsoc types from Dune. (I may have missed a spot) Fie on your pitiful "quasi-Germanic" as a reason to weaken that heady blend. I agree it would be absurd to have solely Islamic Lunars. So don't ever do that.

About those two RuneQuest cult writeups: The Cult of the Red Emperor was written by Chris Gidlow and myself and published in issue #16 of Tales of the Reaching Moon magazine (1997), round about the time we were finishing up Life of Moonson. This version is largely the same, with classic artwork, fresh layout, a new section on Iconography, and a few tweaks to bring rules etc. in line with RuneQuest: Roleplaying in Glorantha. We understand there won't ever be an "official" cult writeup, so if your game needs a framework for Red Tribunes, Moon Lords, Sultans and Senators carrying out the will of the Red Emperor, this is the best you're likely to get. It includes copious notes on Lunar concepts of Justice and Nobility, and is closely linked to the rest of the Rough Guide to Glamour, which is why we thought it belonged in the book. The Cult of Glamour, First Inspiration of Moonson and Goddess of the Imperial Capital, has never previously been published. This one was written by Jeff Richard, who is also the lead author of the forthcoming Gods of Glorantha, a book which won't contain any City Cults (as they're too parochial). Glamour is, of course, a very atypical city cult: a goddess of illusion, her priestesses are divas and fashion icons rather than mayors or city councillors. As a short break from the exploits of Vasana & Co., Jeff has recently run a RuneQuest game set in Glamour, and this cult writeup was designed to make his wife's character happy. (Which she is!)