Rick Meints

The first edition had one supplement published for it. It was also considered a bit rough and in need of a bit of balancing and refining. Thus, errata came out very quickly, followed by the 2nd edition in about a year. We decided the 2nd edition is superior, and more playable. Any background or scenario related info that was cut from the 1st edition has been included as bonus material in this remastered 2nd edition. We did a comparison of the 1st and 2nd edition rulebooks and the leap was small enough, and clear enough that the 2nd edition was the way to go, plus it had more and better art than the first edition. In some ways, we did what we did with RuneQuest Classic. We mainly focused on the getting the 2nd edition available again, for much of the same reasons.

The Kickstarter will be for just over 20 days.

It is a stretch goal.

The short answer is No effect. We sold the HeroQuest trademark to Hasbro. That simply means that Chaosium can no longer publish a book with a HeroQuest logo on it. We can reformat any of our past HQ titles and continue selling them if we remove all branding references to HeroQuest. Hasbro has no rights to Glorantha. This has nothing to do with RuneQuest either. It only means we can no longer call our HeroQuest game "HeroQuest". Hence the rebranding to Questworlds.

Greg briefly held a job as a belt buckle salesman.

We are staying pretty true to the original CoC layout, just like we did with the RQ Classics. Same approach.

Without trying to sound weird, frustrated or angry, the last few replies have sort of derailed this thread. The Call of Cthulhu Classic Kickstarter is about reprinting material from the 1980s. That material is only available at collector prices, often costing hundreds of $$$. This reprint project is separate from any efforts being made by the current 7th edition team and the books they produce. This isn't slowing down or stopping any of their ongoing efforts. We've had lots of requests from people who would love to get a early retro edition boxed set of CoC. If Classic reprints aren't your thing, that's fine too. If you want to discuss how you would like to update Shadows of Yog-Sothoth, please start your own thread. NOTE: SoYS is being worked on for 7th edition. Our starting point for that was the 2004 version, not the 1982 version.

This is Call of Cthulhu Classic. It's all for second edition. Nothing updated to 7th.

The short answer is that all of the items you see in this picture will be part of a Call of Cthulhu Classic Kickstarter shortly. It will be a simple Kickstarter, with few stretch goals, and no bling items. The only thing not pictured is the dice.

Please note that neither, Donald, nor Daisy, (or Gladstone Gander) are the models for the ducks in Glorantha.

It was intentional, and we did it to focus on current game editions. If there's a PDF that used to be on chaosium.com that you want to buy, please search for it on DTRPG. As for them being hard to find on DTRPG, please search by title until we finish assigning some HW/HQ titles to the HeroQuest category to increase their visibility.

You would have to ask Ian Cooper that. I don't believe he has been submitting those sorts of edits.

I can guarantee you that it is not a general lack of interest. It is a number of other factors: time, money, production capacity, topic overlap, and similar. Over the last few years we have been spending more time reviewing foreign language product for potential translation into English, and recently translated Does Love Forgive, a Polish CoC book, into English. There's more in the works, but it's too early to talk about specific books.

Here's my take on the situation: In general, the demand for a niche product doesn't translate into a lot of sales. We've only had a few dozen people (at most) ask us to get a hold of Arkat's Saga. If we thought Arkat's Saga was both a solid product and it would make enough money, it would get on the production schedule. As the producer of the Gloranthan Classics, I loved doing them and they sold quite well. That said, we have had steady ongoing sales of the RuneQuest Classics, probably because the printed Gloranthan Classics are basically out of print and many people missed out on getting them.

We will rebrand the books and get them back into print.

In the end, we're currently taking the same approach that Greg Stafford generally used. We publish things when we feel they are ready for publication and worth the effort. As the print production manager, I know how much time, money, resources and similar go into getting something published. For a number of Greg's manuscripts, we don't feel it is worth it. On a fairly regular basis we get asked to reprint/pod/sell an out-of-print niche item, and Arkat's Saga, for example, is definitely a niche item. Unfortunately, when we have made a niche item available for sale the sales numbers are underwhelming. I was shocked at how few PDFs of Wyrm's Footnotes we have sold. Sure, you can say having a printed version would have sold more units, but I have numbers on such things as well and they don't move the needle that much either. Spending a lot of time and resources on something to sell 50-100 units just isn't worth it when that time can be spent elsewhere, and on projects that will sell thousands of copies.

I don't know about your characters, but if one of my characters ever encountered an actual deity they would be stunned silent with awe/fear/emotion. I don't think I'd be saying that their shoes didn't match the rest of their outfit, or that I thought tattoo X would have been smaller.

My short answer is that there is very little overlap, and certainly not enough that you will feel the Source Book is just a cut down version of the Guide.

I tried engaging in a few threads there a few years ago. I stopped when I felt that some participants only wanted to start some sort of flame war.

Both of the books you asked about, the Weapons & Equipment Guide and the GameMaster book, have not gone to layout yet. The Weapons & Equipment book is almost ready to go to layout. That is the most accurate status we can provide. There is a very good chance the PDF for the weapons & equipment guide will be available in a few months. We can provide a better date for the printed version of it once it has gone to the printers.

FedEx delivered two boxes an hour or so ago. Please note that some of these items are the final printed versions, like the box itself, while others are printed on simpler paper, sometimes untrimmed with color matching swatches on the edges, and sometimes they have printer proof comments written on them. Everything is looking lovely and of high quality. The set will weigh over 3lbs. 8 oz. (about 1.5 kg). Please, no "what's with the weird white border" comments. That's what "untrimmed" means...

The next announcement we will make related to the timing for this title is when the book has gone to layout. The writing and editing are done and the remaining art has been commissioned and is being completed.

We welcome that problem, and we'll print more.

I'll assume that you are actually asking IF they will be rebranded. We have already said that we are working on that, but there are only so many hours in the day to do these sorts of projects.

I was at RQ Con 1 as well and I am pretty sure I went to that Greg Reads. I only remember it was Harmast related though. Hans Van Halteren probably recorded it. He supposedly has his video camera with him and filed a number of events. Peter Michaels also supposedly video taped a number of seminars and such. This is mentioned on page 54 of the RQ Con Compendium. Some events were also tape recorded. I wish I remembered more, but it was 27 years ago.