Rick Meints

People keep mentioning an 8th edition. Not so sure about that.

I'd start by asking Penelope Love what should would like done with the book.

That's certainly possible.

All we know about this at Chaosium is we don't believe the French company has any rights to do anything stormbringer/elric/etc. in English. We have no idea what they would like to do if they had additional rights.

How about you quote what he said, or post a link, as opposed to giving a vague "he said something else" summary?

That will change in the next few days as we get 5.2 into our US warehouse.

Everything in my pictures is from my personal collection! 🙂

Nobody, especially Chaosium, is "suppressing" the book.

It is our understanding that they have the French language rights. While it is certainly possible to have the rights globally in all languages, that is not the case with Mournblade.

Agentorange: I will politely and respectfully point out that every answer you seek is available in these forums and also on the internet. Because I want to be helpful, here's some info: Hasbro purchased the HeroQuest trademark from us and part of the deal was that we can sell our remaining stock of books for ONE year. We haven't reached that deadline yet, but will soon. Thus, printed books are on sale, and we also still sell PDFs for now. This was announced on the Chaosium website. This was discussed here. I would imagine if you did a search of these forums for "Hasbro" you would find these announcements and discussions in minutes, if not seconds. Also, while we would like to rebrand the HeroQuest products so we can keep selling them that isn't as easy as it sounds. We don't necessarily have all the early layout files. Even then, that would just make it easy to adjust and sell the PDFs. As has been said, creating POD ready files is time consuming, and many times the layout files used for a conventional print run need to be adjusted for a POD print run. Lastly, and probably more importantly, the future sales of such old, outdated, and "sold for years" publications is relatively low. Investing a $1000 of our time to get a POD product ready for a few dozen potential sales is a bad business model, especially when it could slow down work on a new product that will generate a lot more in sales. In the end: I would absolutely, positively love it if we had every product we have ever produced available as a PDF and as a POD item. Anybody who knows me knows I have been chipping away at making that happen for quite some time now. It's why the RQ Classics are available. It's why we have a number of older Call of Cthulhu products now available again. I guarantee you it is not because we don't care, can't be bothered, or are mean spirited. If something isn't available in print or PDF it is for a legitimate reason.

We will try to post it on brpcentral as well. If you can't find the link you can always email todd-at-chaosium-dot-com. I don't think the link will be available more than a day or two ahead of time. We're still figuring out when and what. Current thinking is the weekend of Feb. 27, probably on Saturday, but also maybe having some things on Sunday.

The book printing is almost complete. We'll see how long it takes to get to all the warehouses in the time covid and brexit.

In general, something was removed because: we no longer had the rights to use it. it was too similar to another creature. thematically it might be better in its own book (like Dreamlands). quality. a combination of factors.

A while back I got to contemplating how many of the early Call of Cthulhu supplements would fit inside a 2" Call of Cthulhu box. We recently brought back the 1" classic Chaosium box with the CoC Starter set and it was well received, so a 2" box might be doubly so. Some people know I have a desire to see what's been out of print for too long finding a way back into print. Lo and behold, all of the items on the table fit neatly inside of the box. Normally, a 40th anniversary is "ruby" themed, but that doesn't mean it couldn't have a substantial "paper" component to it as well...

I would thank you by your real name, but I don't know what it is. Regardless, thank you for the information. I got a copy of the SPQR rules back when it first came out, as Steve has been a friend of mine for over 20 years now. We met at RQCon 2 back in 1995. I am always happy to chat with him at Gen Con, especially when we are both in the Chaosium booth and the crowd isn't keeping us too busy. I particularly liked working with him when he wrote up his "memories of runequest" that we published as part of the RQ Classic kickstarter (in the RQ1 playtest manuscript book). NOTE: I always appreciate tips on things that I may not have in my collection. Every now and then I don't know about the item mentioned. Speaking of Steve, if anyone has any early Dundracon con books from the late 70s or early 80s, I'd love to know more about what was in them.

Thank you for the kind words. In the 80s and early 90s I didn't collect much beyond RuneQuest, but my want list was getting rather slim and my collecting itch had to be scratched. Thus, I started picking up other Chaosium related items for Call of Cthulhu, Stormbringer, and the rest. If a batch lot or stack of Chaosium stuff was going for the cheap I'd just buy the lot. I also had the good fortune and immense pleasure of being the game auctioneer at Convulsion, Continuum, Tentacles and Eternal Con maybe 30 times in total. Those auctions were all Chaosium focused. For a while I was really into getting all of the Chaosium boxed games, and when I got most of those I would pick a different collecting challenge. In the early 2000s, when Chaosium was cash strapped I made a deal with them. I would send them cases of the Gloranthan Classic books to sell on their website, and they would reciprocate by paying me with their products. We basically swapped product. In the warehouse they had a box labelled "one of everything for Rick" and they would place one of each new publication in it as they came out. When the box had a decent number of items in it they would mail those to me. That went on for probably a decade. I also let them know that if they had spare copies of older stuff, feel free to add those into the box too. I got a lot of Chaosium material that way. Forty years of doing things like that, and you get shelves like this:

It's ok. We'll have the 2nd and 3rd spots sewn up right after our new game "Uncategorized, the RPG" comes out.

I chatted with Sandy about this very topic yesterday afternoon. Unfortunately, he came on board as a Chaosium employee after the artwork had been done. He wrote the CoC manuscript as a freelance writer working from home. Other people at Chaosium had done the art direction.

yes, we'll probably get around to offering Canis Mysterium as a POD title. It's on our list.

Actually, I was asking for more information on the following statement you made a few posts back: "If Chaosium could see their way clear to PODing them at a reasonable price I'd probably go far as to buy hard copies as well." You then answer with examples from the Jonstown Compendium. Those aren't Chaosium products. Everything in the Jonstown Compendium has a price that is NOT determined by Chaosium. Those prices are solely up to the independent creator to set. They can make something free, pay what you want, or extremely overpriced. As for Chaosium HW/HQ items that we do not have as POD items, we probably won't have many of them as POD any time soon. First, we have to clean up their legal text to reflect the current situation. Secondly, we are contractually obligated to remove any and all "HeroQuest" branding from them. Alas, we don't really have anyone working on that. I apologize for reading too much into your statement quoted above. I thought you were saying our current POD offerings, like the RQ Classics Borderlands or Griffin Mountain were unreasonably priced.

We stock almost all of our in print product in our UK warehouse. We do have not plans to change that. Yes, there may be some delays in getting stock there, and yes we sometimes run out of a single item or two for a while. It is also our most expensive warehouse for storing product so we keep the inventory leaner than we wish we had to. The UK is our second largest market after the USA. By that, I mean that we sell more of our books in the UK than any other single country except the United States. Thus, we very much want to keep it stocked. That's why we went to all the trouble to set up a UK warehouse. The reason it is tougher to stock the UK quickly is solely down to BREXIT.

Chances are, if the Cthulhu picture was published prior to when this book came out in 1979 it would have been in one of the following: Dark Fantasy V4, #14, September 1977 for the R'Lyeh Rises article. Weirdbook #11, page 49. or Weirdbook #12, page 34, or Weirdbook 13, page 76. Pickman's Portrait (HP Lovecraft portfolio), which I can find very little info on. Of course, I fully concede that the Cthulhu pic may be one of the few unpublished ones.

Ok, I'll bite, what would you consider a reasonable price for the RQ Classic POD titles? Feel free to give 3-4 examples.

No.

It was on page 2 of this thread.