Nick Brooke

9 hours ago, soltakss said:

I remember a description of the Red Emperor that said he had the ability to control a specific type of Lunar Demon.

If you can't remember where you found it, it'll be in A Rough Guide to Glamour as part of the Red Emperor Cult writeup - they're one of his spirits of retribution. We mention various other demons in passing, as you would expect: the Bat Demons atop the Outer Wall, the Tax Demons in the Court of Sacred Largesse, the demons who dragged the first Imperial Warlord to perdition, the Ice Demons of Valind's Glacier....

9 hours ago, jajagappa said:

Rogue Mostali complete with magical abacus and the ability to turn you into your weight in silver coins.  

Or just bits of you, excised with surgical precision. (A precise pound of flesh, if you will)

On 3/19/2020 at 7:47 PM, Ultor said:

It's a glaring absence from the rules. I hope there'll be official guidelines as this is clearly a case where people are having to make up their own systems and they vary wildly.

*cough* Jonstown Compendium supplement opportunity *cough*

They aren't, but their bosses are.

OMG, it's a small hobby isn't it? My little scenario is currently the #6th best seller of ALL THE THINGS on DriveThruRPG. Get in there!

On 3/26/2020 at 6:37 AM, Nick Brooke said:

Well, that's gratifying.

And "The Duel at Dangerford" is still the #1 Hottest Community Content on DriveThruRPG more than 24 hours later. I must be doing something right...

Oh look: I got a nice gong from DriveThru for >100 sales.

That's because all the cool kids are reading my scenario now. Don't miss out! And please don't forget to leave five-star ratings and rave reviews on the product page: it's greatly appreciated.

https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/307504/The-Duel-at-Dangerford?affiliate_id=392988

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

8 hours ago, Diana Probst said:

Full disclosure: that is an affiliate link, and Beer With Teeth use affiliate link money for expenses such as font licences and the expenses of small-scale publishing, thus making our products better.  It costs you nothing extra, and makes our work cost us less.

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

5 hours ago, dumuzid said:

Did Dormal make the cut?  I seem to recall him having temples as far afield as Fonrit.

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

2 hours ago, Joerg said:

Thank you very much for providing the rumors about Moirades still having a hand in the affairs of Tarsh. Much appreciated.

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.

2 hours ago, Joerg said:

Now how would you suggest to play this if in your game Fazzur's betrayal occurred on the evening before the Battle against Kallyr in 1625, as per canon?

(shrug)

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

1 hour ago, Rob Darvall said:

But does it have a write up of Kyger Litor?😇

First cult in the book, of course.

2 minutes ago, soltakss said:

Really? It looks quite modern, almost cartoonish. Did you put it through any filters? Actually, just checked and it looks as though you didn't.

Wikimedia FTW.

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

14 minutes ago, Puckohue said:

I got so excited I almost ordered two pdf:s.

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

1 minute ago, Thaz said:

Huzzah for everyone. Love the cover art by the way 🙂

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.

4 minutes ago, g33k said:

what about "... of Swing" ?

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

12 minutes ago, g33k said:

... maybe even a mini "tribal edit" pass ...  😁

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.

4 hours ago, Bill the barbarian said:

Interesting point, but how can you tell? Short of downloading it, using it and  creating a doc and turning it into a PDF and then trying to embed it, that is. Thanks in advance.

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

33 minutes ago, soltakss said:

Just go ahead and spam everyone, Nick, everyone else does and nobody seems to mind. We all want this to see the light of day.

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.

On 3/19/2020 at 8:40 PM, g33k said:

(The key thread -- in fact the key post, FWIW -- was Nick Brook's summary of the Cult of Glamour in his RQ-subforum edition of the "Rough Guide to Glamour" thread (as an aside, I am kinda hating how there are many iterations of specific significant topics, distributed ALL the FRACK over teh Interwebz)).

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.