Rick Meints

On 5/14/2024 at 9:16 PM, g33k said:

Come to think of it...
Hey @Rick Meints or @MOB or @... err... somebody @Chaosium!

The new "folio" sheets are kinda expensive even DIY'ing them... but they're awfully pretty!    😍

I don't think I've ever bought a commercial pack of "just character sheets," but I might make an exception for those, if Chaosium offered a pack of them.  And, of course, there's other buyers who  do buy & have bought  commercial sheets.

Y'all might be able to turn a profit bulk-printing sheets for sale in packages (25?  50?  100?)  (Sell 'em marked as "SIZ 25" and "SIZ 50" and  "SIZ 100" 😉  )

Maybe Kickstart (with a certain minimum number to "succeed") as an interest-gauge...?

How low a price/sheet d'you think you could get?

Unfortunately, we have no plans to sell sets of blank character sheets.

5 hours ago, zanshin said:

Hi folks

I am clearing house, and have 2 lever arch files filled with printouts of the discussions in RQ Digest back in the early days of the RQnet - includes details of The Gordayan IIRC (a wonderful hideous undead monster). The articles and banter catch a moment in time, so I am reluctant to just discard.

If there is alot of interest I will prioritise people with a presence in the community who have a publication based interest.

I will consider posting for the cost of postage - but they are pretty heavy, and I don't want to make money on this for obvious reasons. 

I am about to go away for a few days, but PM me if interested. I live near Rochester in Kent, UK. 

Thank you, that is a generous offer. Unfortunately, Chaosium really doesn't have a good place to store these things in the UK, and shipping them to the US would cost too much. While I love things on paper, I'll have to settle for the online archives (which are excellent in their own way).

Thank you for sharing. This info is also available in the MIG3.

40 minutes ago, Demishadow23 said:

Ok. I’d like to ask outright now and I ask with respect: I’m not trying to troll.

i want the Glorantha Sourcebook 2.0

I also want the Lunar book and all the Pendragon books.

The Lunar book was announced for March and missed it. 

The Pendragom books are announced for this month.

My conundrum is that I don’t want to place multiple orders and pay multiple shipping charges.  I Want to if at all humanly possible place one order or worse case two orders.

thus far asking about the Lunar book has gotten at most a vague “soon” answer with much speculation. 
 

I ask with respect and I’m not expecting a laser precise answer.

are we on track for April for the Pendragon books? If not ballpark when. Weeks? Months?

The Lunar book? Weeks? Months?

I want to know so that if the wait is long then I can fee free to order the GAB 2.0 right now. Or if the wait is weeks for those other books, I’ll wait and place one order.

I’m not asking for a precise date. And Chaosium doesn’t owe me anything but I do think (because these books were officially announced with release windows) that more clarity is in order and it’s a perfectly reasonable thing for me or anyone to not only ask but to expect an answer.

i don’t appreciate my posts being “trimmed”.  There has been no answers and i think other and myself asking is reasonable. And it’s poor customer service to ignore or remove these posts instead of addressing it head on. These are not troublemaking posts. This is people wanting answers so we can buy your products.

If you trim my current post then that is fine and that will be my answer and I’ll go way. but it’s poor customer service in my opinion.

As per what you say above, we have tried to provide some "estimates" for when a book will be for sale, but we ended up being wrong. Thus, we really don't like to give them, as it leads to frustration and disappointment. The largest problems we have faced recently have been getting a book shipped to all of our warehouses so we can sell it everywhere at the same time. If we don't do that, we inevitably get complaints/grief from the customers who buy via warehouse X.

Going forward, we are going to be announcing a book being for sale once it is in all our warehouses. You won't be seeing "Coming in future month X" sorts of announcements.

Pe-orders have been suggested, but our system/website isn't currently able to handle them, thus no pre-orders.

I expect all of the books you mention above will be available soon, but that's all I can say at this time.

On 4/2/2024 at 10:42 AM, Bill Mize said:

Managed to score my first ever game of Pendragon at the upcoming ChaosiumCon; would love for this to be available at the Dealer's Room then.

The Pendragon Coe rulebook will be for sale at Chaosium Con.

We sell a day badge for Saturday. The freeform area is not sealed off behind locked doors so people could politely and unobtrusively have a look at what is going on. You shouldn't interact with any of the players, or distract them from what they are trying to do, of course, but being a fly on an out of the way wall for a few mins shouldn't be a problem. Check in with the admins running the game for what they think will be ok.

For the RQ game sessions, the same above basically applies. Just ask the GM and players if it's ok.

Can we see a sample page or two?

So what do people think of the book?

On 2/27/2024 at 4:52 AM, Runeword said:

Are these errata corrections in shipped out on print versions? If so, what would I be looking for to make sure it is the updated version?

Until the book is reprinted, there is only the first printing available in hardcopy. When we reprint is based on how quickly we sell through the first printing. 

I believe I can help provide some info on some of this.

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I suggest that you allow the PC to pick the skills they want to improve via previous experience. After all, they get to decide how they spent their time back then. When in doubt, use the higher number. If that doesn't work, just add 10%. 🙂

20 hours ago, SilverSeraph said:

I am a late backer through Nocturnal's portal and was getting notifications when James Lowder was posting new KS updates.  But I'm not getting notifications anymore.  Can I verify my purchase and continue to get the updates?

We posted a Kickstarter Update last week.

On 11/17/2023 at 8:41 PM, Jens said:

The page count (and number of cults) has significantly increased from the Cults preview volumes at the time the Red Book was published until now; it’s no surprise there are new spells to match. The only question is whether there will be a second edition of The Red Book once the Cults volumes are done that contains all the new spells- and whether those of us who bought the PDF will be able to download the updated version for free, or have buy a new one like for the updated Sourcebook. 

We haven't decided on creating an "updated Red Book" yet. One big precursor to doing that would be having the first printing sell out so we would need to print more. A likely first step would be for us to create a 1-2 page PDF "addendum" for the RBoM and make that PDF available for free on our website.

On 11/9/2023 at 12:05 PM, Nicochan said:

Mythology, Prosopaedia, Lightbringers, Earth Goddesses

I'm guessing the last 2 are a "zoom in" on the respective cults, but what about the first 2? 

It really depends on what your needs and interests are. If you are playing RuneQuest, especially as the Gamemaster, you would probably want to get Lightbringers and Earth Goddesses so you have full cult write-ups to use in play and for character creation. That might be less true if you are not playing in Dragon Pass or Prax (central Genertela).

If you are newer to Glorantha and mainly just reading the books for enjoyment, the Mythology book provides a great overview of how religions/cults/magic all works in Glorantha. The Prosopaedia is a collection of brief summaries of all of the main deities/spirits/etc. in Glorantha. It could help point you to specific cults books you might want to read in further depth in the future. These two books aren't technically needed for use during play at the table, although the info can certainly help new players understand things.

To paraphrase one of my favorite movie quotes, Delecti has a long tradition of existence.

Having him defeated, destroyed, and gone for good would be a tremendous loss for MGF.

He has a lot of choices and his future is largely undecided. 

3 hours ago, Grey said:

So excited this is still coming 😁 Is it still planned as 2 books/ possible slip case? Hoping for any snippets or updates 🤞

Very probably no slipcase, just individual books.

8 minutes ago, g33k said:

Obviously, you folks have the sales-numbers for your recent "Cthulhu Classic" box-sets.
I'd have thought -- if the numbers you saw supported it -- that also allowing that edition would make good sense.
But maybe those sales-numbers don't support a Community Content program...
Or maybe you're looking at the JC, where RQ Classic is allowed, but has few (zero?) offerings.
In the end, it's obviously your call.  I don't suppose Chaosium is in business to leave easy money on the table!

Call of Cthulhu Classic makes it very clear that it is not for 7th edition (it's actually 2nd edition). We have yet to find anyone who was/is confused by it not being the latest edition of the game. The Miskatonic Repository is a very different situation. We don't want anyone to get confused about what edition a product is for. They are all for the current edition. We used to sell some of the previous editions of the CoC rules on DTRPG, but the sales were quite low, and the confusion caused by it made it not worth continuing. 

The Jonstown Compendium is also a very different situation. The RQ Classics don't really require any conversion to use, and we also have had little to no confusion raised by the buying public.

While we don't like leaving a significant amount of money on the table (that's why we reprinted Beyond the Mountains of Madness) we are not going to deal with the grief and confusion raised by selling a product that might sell 10 copies per year.

As we have said for some time, all of the monograph copyrights reverted back to their authors/creatives. If the Monograph is for CoC they are welcome to update it to 7th ed. and then publish it on the Miskatonic Repository. If they did so they would probably make more money as MR books than they ever did as Monographs. As for why the authors haven't done that, you'd have to ask them. Updating a CoC monograph to 7th edition could take very little time. Most monographs are not super stat heavy. Chances are the electronic file would need to get updated/adjusted for DTRPGs PDF standard and sizes in many cases, and the other 7th edition changes required could be done at the same time. 

Chaosium licensed the production of the hardcover RQ2 rulebook to Reston Publishing in the early 1980s. Reston did one print run of the book, with dust jacket. It never had a rune on the cover (below left). The gold colored embossed RuneQuest logo with the author names below it is all that was on the cover. 

The Kickstarter hardcover leatherette (below, right) has a lot more gold foil on the cover, as we did a version of all the cover art. It is a bit more overwhelming to look at.

On a slightly related note, one thing I am wondering is if Reston used two different materials for the book cover. The cover made of Leatherette material is all I have in my collection, but I could have sworn that around 20-25 years ago I saw the book with the cover made of a slightly lighter shade of red cloth. I wonder if they possibly did the cloth material version for libraries...

I've never seen one since, and my memory isn't 100% on seeing a cloth bound version. I keep looking.

On 10/9/2023 at 8:49 PM, Rodney Dangerduck said:

Do they reprint the books with corrections?

Yes, when we reprint a book we try to include as many corrections as possible. Two examples of this are the RQ Core RB and the Glorantha Sourcebook. We haven't needed to reprint most of the RQ books we have published thus far.

1 hour ago, glarkhag said:

ahh, thanks.

...and did the questworlds project die and get replaced by RQG, in which case as that picks up after Eleven LIghts (if I understand the timeline correctly) no need for a rebrand?

Questworlds hasn't died. There have been a number of delays though. 

The Sartar, Dragon Pass, and GM Guide books are all pretty far along, although none are in layout yet.

2 hours ago, soltakss said:

All of my Gloranthan Classics are of slightly different heights. Pavis & Big Rubble is the shortest, then Cult Compendium, but Griffin Mountain and Borderlands & Beyond are the same height, so yours is probably a good copy.

They were printed between 1999 and 2005, and by different printers. Trimming is not a precise science, so a millimeter or so in height difference should be expected. The copies on my shelf are very close in height, but also vary slightly. I doubt that yours are POD knock-offs, which are pretty rare. If they are, they probably have a glossy cover instead of a matte cover, which has far less shine to it.

On 9/7/2023 at 7:36 PM, Erol of Backford said:

How might one get a copy of Tentacles 4-6? I must have lost my way as I have the early ones...

PM me if you wish to purchase Ye Book of Tentacles 3-6. I have a number of them. Postage would be from the US.

All of the Avalon Hill RuneQuest 3 line of products, including Sun County, went out of print when AH was bought by Hasbro. Basically, it hasn't been for sale since 2000.