Rick Meints

I'll politely point out that if I had more specific information that I wanted to provide, I would have given that information. Please do not ask us "when will this be specifically available" questions as a response to the information we have given.

The Red Book of Magic was printed in Poland, and the Starter set was printed in China. Getting each of those two products into our other global warehouses poses different challenges, and different delays. What happens to one doesn't necessarily apply to the other. In the end, we will start selling each product as soon as we feel we are able.

The US shipment is on a cargo container ship called COSCO SPAIN: https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/details/ships/shipid:689390/mmsi:477776200/imo:9516442/vessel:COSCO_SPAIN ETA to Long Beach port is August 24th. After it gets unloaded and clears customs it gets sent to Minnesota, which takes a week or so.

Chaosium announced the Stormbringer book "Castle of Eyes" in that same blue newsletter... It was supposed to be CHA2116 and retail for $18.95. Expected September - Castle of Eyes is a grandiose, epic campaign filled with visions of splendor and horror. After a millennium of fighting a catastrophic war, the ruling family of the castle suffers from decay and an intense fear of strangers from the outside world. Desperation and starvation threatens the people, and a brewing battle between competing claimants to the throne threatens to destroy all. The adventurers are caught in between, and are forced to assert themselves, becoming central figures in the struggle to control the throne.

Unfortunately, we just don't know. Steve was the primary person handling the GoFundMe, so who even has access now is unknown.

Vale and farewell, Steve Perrin! When the world of Roleplaying Games was still waiting to be born, you and your closest friends conjured up the Society for Creation Anachronism (SCA) from the realms of your collective imagination. Bump, bump, bump down the stairs, indeed. Shortly thereafter Steve and Luise joined the fledging Chaosium as it spread its draconic wings in the mid 1970s with White Bear & Red Moon, and a little known RPG called RuneQuest, born on the 4th of July in 1976. Steve’s canny understanding of gaming mechanics and Luise’s artistic vision helped forge an iconic game still played around the world today. But a few hours ago we learned that Steve was taken from us, even as he worried that Luise’s health situation was more dire than his. He was a loving and devoted partner to the end. To sum up all that Steve was to the Chaosium family cannot be typed up in a few sentences. He is one of our Great Old Ones. An innovative genius that helped pave the way for us to exist today, delighting gamers while they sit around a table, in person or online, exploring stories and adventures together, weaving new tales of derring-do. RuneQuest and Superworld were his children, and his imprint on so many of our other games is indelibly present. Many of us grew up playing his games. He was the uncle we admired, envied, and listened to for his wise counsel. In the last few years, as a new edition of RuneQuest was born he was there. His wisdom and experience reminded us of the simple, pure, and wonderous origins of the magic of roleplaying. How can you say thank you for that? We grieve with all of those who knew him, especially his family. We thought we might have been able to entice him to be with us at one more gaming convention in the near future, but now we know that gathering will have to wait. Saying farewell is never easy. Dear friends depart, and we remember them for all the richness they brought to our lives. We at the Chaosium cherish all the decades you sat with us at the gaming table and the stories you created with us. Vale, and farewell, Steve.

As you have surmised, we do not take pre-orders on products on the Chaosium.com website. The Starter set has been printed and is currently being shipped to all 5 of our warehouses. We'll announce its availability via our Ab Chaos newsletter. You can subscribe to it via our website. Ab Chaos comes out about once a week.

That pre-order date for the Starter set is probably optimistic. We'll have the books in our US warehouse by then, and they will be available to distributors some time in late September. Unfortunately, your UK game shop has to get the books from a distributor that has to order those books from our US warehouse and have them shipped to the UK. That makes me think maybe November at the earliest for an appearance in UK game shops. We'll be selling the Starter set on our website for probably 2 months prior to that UK game shop debut, and offering shipping from our UK warehouse. Please note that our UK warehouse is very expensive when it comes to storing product. Thus, we can't have stock it with enough books to support distributor and game shop orders. We mainly have it for our UK fans who want to buy direct from us, and as soon as the product is available.

If someone has an interest in working on RuneQuest Classics and similar, please feel free to message me. The main skill needed is use of InDesign. As for putting any RQ3 titles through the JC as fan projects, that isn't going to happen. Please note that we are willing to pay for people to do layout.

As you have probably already guessed, doing these sorts of classic reprints mosts comes down to three factors: 1. Time/Resources that we have to balance against new/future projects. 2. How the older item lines up with current/forthcoming products. 3. How much in demand they are. In general, that means that products like the RQ3 Gods of Glorantha and the Glorantha: Genertela boxed sets are very very unlikely to happen. The same goes for the RQ3 Glorantha Bestiary. They have been replaced with deeper, richer, and more up to date books that are currently in print or soon will be. We have pondered doing some of the RQ3 adventures published during the RQ Renaissance, though. Some of the lessons learned from the RQ Classics campaign is that the popularity of some of the older titles varied greatly. On hindsight, we would have skipped redoing some of the older titles because they didn't meet sales expectations. (i.e. redoing a book to sell a couple of hundred copies just isn't worth it)

Andre can provide a more complete answer, but it basically ran out of steam. The team was shrinking, and it was harder and harder to put the magazine together, get it printed, etc.

The 7th edition Kickstarter: 3,668 backers pledged $561,836 to help bring this project to life. Call of Cthulhu Classic: 5,718 backers pledged $591,470 to help bring this project to life. PS: That was a one minute search on Kickstarter to find out.

I read almost all of the Kickstarter comments and keep an eye out for good suggestions. Thank you for that.

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Each will have nice handouts. Not sure on the number of volumes. Gazetteers would make sense, plus we are thinkig of doing a starter set for each of these as well. Keeper Screens are less likely. They don't sell as well as you might think. That's not saying "no", just not saying "yes" at this time.

At least 4, maybe more.

There is no public archive. That said, we do have a large amount of Greg's papers archived.

I am currently updating the miniatures section of the Meints Index to Glorantha (MIG). One of my current woes is that I am neither a good photographer, and most of my minis are unpainted. Thus, I am reaching out to all my fellow miniatures painters/collectors for your assistance. What I am looking for: High quality photos of licensed RQ/HQ/Gloranthan miniatures from the following companies: Archive, Citadel/Trollkin Forge, DragonClaw/Tabletop, Infinity Engine, Lance & Laser, Mad Knight, Martian Metals, Mongoose/Rebel, Ral Partha, and Rapier (UK). I would prefer pictures of individual painted miniatures, or perhaps 2-3 minis next to each other in a row. I would greatly prefer that the background is simple, clear, or white. I can clean up the background to remove shadows and some grey, but it's hard to remove a lot more than that quickly. I've included a few sample draft pages from the new edition of the MIG, giving you an idea of what I am aiming at. Depending on what pictures I end up getting from all of you, these pages might get updated with cooler and better pictures. I might show an unpainted mini and one of you might send me a cooler painted version of it that I will happily use instead. What I am not looking for: Please do not point me to (or send me) images you found on the internet. I would need permission from the creators to use them in my book. They also may look very good on a computer screen but they look fuzzy when printed out at high resolution. Please trust me when I say that a 72 DPI JPG picture that is 75K in size will not print out well. Also, I don't need any miniatures that were not licensed for RQ/HQ/Glorantha.

We are not participating in freeRPG day this year.

I wish you luck in finding a copy of the book at a reasonable price. Most are owned by either collectors or active players who really like the book. Alas, it is very unlikely that it will get reprinted.

We'll see what we can do.

It might. While FANGS is available as a scanned and cleaned up PDF, I don't think I would classify it as "poor". I apologize for disappointing you with that free PDF.

Having them get published via the Jonstown Compendium is certainly possible. That's mainly up to the original author/publisher, of course. Alas, I have heard that the main author, Ian Thomson, is hard to get a hold of, but Fabian, who was one of the main people involved in publishing them, is fairly easy to contact.

Here's the good news. There's no need to assume the worst, or that this is a missed opportunity. Part of the magic of doing reprints is that we are not bound by the laws of space and time (or any other constraints) to make these exactly as the originals. I don't know how much you have read about the Kickstarter in the details. One thing I have said a few times is that these are remastered and have BONUS content. The best example of how we have done this with a previous set of classic material is for the RuneQuest Classics, where we sprinkled into many of the books extras like magazine articles, background material, and similar. We're doing the same with the Call of Cthulhu Classics. It just so happened that we did a thorough comparison of the first and second editions (basically the rulebook and the 1920s sourcebook). We ended up taking what was cut from the first edition (a modest number of pages) and we are adding that info back into these remastered versions. TLDR: That Previous Experience material from the first edition Sourcebook for the 1920s is some of the bonus material in the Classics version. This isn't an either/or situation. We have the option of doing both. Lastly, who says we will never do a PDF and print on demand version of the first edition rulebook? We did that with the RQ Classics...

There a number of backer levels, but the main 2 ones are a 1" boxed set with just the 2nd edition rules (2 books, map, and handouts), and a 2" boxed set with the rules (2 books, map, and handouts) and the 5 supplements. That doesn't include stretch goals, just the basics.