Gene M.

Reminds me of the Sharpe TV series when they're at Waterloo and want to see Napoleon on the battlefield.

Need some stats for Orlanth so we can kill the big blue bastard. More seriously, it's a tough situation to balance fidelity to the setting with player agency. Suggestions like looking to her runes or it being an aspect of her seem the right track to me. You could stat her up reasonably high, but I think the flavor of it should be weird and challenging, especially if she acts in some way unexpected to the players (maybe drawing on that Harmony rune). What are the players willing to risk?

Just want to add that I always think of classic Ray Harryhausen movies I watched as a child when I think about RuneQuest. The 1987 TV adaptation Ramayan might also be good Glorantha inspiration.

https://www.chaosium.com/blogchaosium-welcomes-ariel-sawicki-to-the-team/ Official Foundry support is in development at least.

I'm looking forward to the Foundry VTT implementation. I've used Foundry for WFRP 4e and it's fantastic.

Bottom of the PDF has Documenth in place of Document.

I bought the book on the strength of the recommendations and mentions I had seen of it over the years as a good source for Lunar material. Unfortunately I did not check the forums first before buying it on DTRPG or I would have come across ALM's review. "If fun or games are not your thing" reads like a bit of a jerk thing to say. I mostly run lighthearted games with lots of humor; actually, the majority of my players are former members of a sketch comedy group. I just wasn't expecting it in this based on the contexts in which I had seen it mentioned. I've also said that my first impressions may be unjust and I will be reading through it to see what's still useful to me. I think I've been pretty measured in what I've said and acknowledged that my disappointment was from having mistaken expectations. I'm certainly not trying to say that it's a bad book. Lots of people are praising it. I apologize if I am misinterpreting the tone of that remark but it seems a bit mean-spirited to me. It's worth considering how others who have not been in the Glorantha club for as long as the posters here and don't have the social background in the old conventions and listservs understand the material. It feels a bit like I've trespassed on someone else's property and should leave it to the people it belongs to.

Right. Jeff Richard citing it as one of the best sources on the Lunar Empire along with the Guide to Glorantha and the Glorantha Sourcebook led me to think it would resemble the latter two works in tone and content. I think this is a case where familiarity with the original means you know exactly what you're getting into, but if you only got into Glorantha since 2012 or so, your expectations might be frustrated.

The description on DTRPG mentions its origins but bills it as a useful guidebook for the Lunar setting, not necessarily as a tongue-in-cheek 90s artifact. There are a lot of funny games out there I could run that don't require extensive player buy-in for the setting unlike RuneQuest Glorantha. YGWV, but if I have to make it Vary by a lot, I'm probably better off not buying a book and just doing the work myself. Again, I haven't finished reading it, so maybe more is useful than I'm getting initially, but if this Jonstown Compendium publication & its portrayal is all we're seeing for the Lunar Empire, I'm not thrilled as yet. I've wanted a good guide to spare me the work of heavy worldbuilding to run a Lunar campaign and based on the description I thought this would do the trick. I am not trying to be insulting by any means. It seems a lot of people like it. It's just not at all what I was expecting. I thought the cover was funny but figured that was just a gag. Didn't realize the book's tone was overall humorous.

That's fine but I don't get the impression that we're going to see a serious Lunar sourcebook. Unless Jeff or someone can correct me?

Initial impressions leaving me disappointed. Not sure why the Lunar Empire gets such a jokey presentation when Sartar gets treated so seriously in the official material, especially given Jeff Richard says this is 95% official. But first impressions can be wrong, so hoping my opinion shifts as I read it.

Running this on Oct 30th. Looking forward it!

Is this still active? The link is expired.

I am gutted by this news. My condolences to his family, friends, and colleagues. Just awful.

Given it says "the GM's book will also feature," the "also" implies it's the same book. It's called a pack, I imagine, because it includes a GM's screen.