Rick Meints

I had to hunt around, but it appears that Lulu ships their books from Mississauga, Ontario, for Canadian orders.

While I won't say "never", that is unlikely. We only stock the Canadian warehouse with our high volume sellers. Unfortunately, postage in Canada, especially to the more remote provinces, is seldom cheap. We are only charging what Lulu charges us for shipping.

The SoloQuest collection is also now available..

About 6 weeks. It is being prepped for shipment to our warehouses.

This is Greg's personal RuneQuest campaign map. There are lots of things he added over time, some of which he later removed. There are dozens of these notes, changes, and additions on the map. It was given to me already framed, and I have never taken it out of it to look closer.

The WB&RM map looks cool when hanging on the wall. This is hanging immediately to the right of the Griffin Mountain painting in my office. It's three hole punched because Greg used to carry it around in a binder with his campaign notes.

We have no plans to do this book as POD. That could change several years from now, but that's at least 3+ years down the road.

If you mean any one ITEM (sorry for the reflection on the glass) it's probably the original Jaquays painting used for the Griffin Mountain cover. It's labelled as "Harmony at Twilight" and it hangs on my office wall:

Any ONE of these of interest?

Which WB&RM edition would you like, Nick?

Setting up POD is being done for a number of reasons, not just for the RQ Classic Kickstarter. A number of older Chaosium titles are going to be available via POD. The Gateway Bestiary came out because a super-generous fan and friend recreated it for us. Yes, he scanned in, OCR'd, cleaned up and re-laid it out and then surprised us with it. I've spoken about Dragon Pass, the war-game before, but will say it again. Reprinting it would take a lot of effort, and cost a lot to actually print, especially if it was boxed. I will restate the maxim Chaosium used when they discontinued doing wargames: They take twice the effort and sell half as well". I will add to that the additional maxim of "If you want the game you can buy it on eBay".

I have spoken with David Forthoffer about the program and he is seeing if he still has it, or at least the code for it. Reprinting Foes is way down on our priority list.

Lulu restricts to 48 pages or less for saddle-stitched.

Our POD printing company prints from a number of countries, including Australia.

Usually we sell things in the format and package that we we think will sell best. Consider this: If we did them as 5 separate items we would have to pay for printing 5 covers instead of one, and pay for increased binding costs. If you would prefer we charge say $8 each for them, so you could pay $40 for them instead of $25 for all five in a single book, which do you think would sell better? Which do you think would earn us more money?

I now know where where I can send any badly damaged boxes I come across. Well done!

Lodabdul would have had plenty of time if he had just spent five minutes searching for this previous post of mine from a few months ago: The RQ1 rulebook was just a single printing, stapled with original Wyrm logo (1978). The RQ2 Rulebook was indivdually sold in the following formats: Color cover, stapled with original Wyrm logo (1979). Color cover, perfect bound in both original Wyrm logo (1980) and Chaosium Dragon logo (1981). Color cover dust jacket for leatherette binding (Reston Publishing) with original Warm logo (1981). Games Workshop perfect bound version with GW logos and alternative cover. The RQ2 Boxed set was sold in the following formats, starting in October of 1980: 2" Box with Chaosium Dragon logo (1980), perfect bound rulebook with brown monochrome cover. Errata on separate sheet of paper. Box has "$26 value" logo. Box does NOT have "4001-X" product number on it. Has Fall - Winter 1980 product catalog included. 2" Box with Chaosium Dragon logo (1981), perfect bound rulebook with green monochrome cover. Errata on separate sheet of paper. Box has "$26 value" logo. Box has "4001-X" product number on it. 2" Box with Chaosium Dragon logo (1982), perfect bound rulebook with red monochrome cover. Errata on inside front and back cover. Box logo only says "Everything needed to play!". Box has "4001-X" product number on it. 1" Box with Chaosium Dragon logo (1983), perfect bound rulebook with color cover with Chaosium Dragon logo. Errata on inside front and back cover. Box logo removed. Box has "4001-X" product number on it. 2" Box Games Workshop version with GW logos and alternative cover with perfect bound rulebook. For RuneQuest Classic we redid the RQ1 rulebook as a perfect bound softcover book (upper left), soon to be available via POD. We also did the Leatherette with dust jacket (right side), and a regular hardcover (center). Very soon we will also have it available in perfect bound softcover via POD (lower left).

There's the 1st edition in the upper right, and all the rest are 2nd edition printings.

"Spare copies" is a relative term. I have three of the 2" boxed set on the shelf because there are three distinct printings (red, brown, and green rulebook covers). Being an unrepentant completist, I switched from acquiring one of each edition to acquiring every distinct printing of each item. The thing is, this picture isn't even all of them, just all I knew about at the time (3 years ago).

Sorry, not going to happen. We would have to redo the layout of information that is easily available in Pavis and Big Rubble.

We are seriously looking at doing the Sartar, Sartar Companion and Pavis Heroquest books as POD. We have no plans for any Hero Wars Titles. They are all available as PDF if you really want them, anyway. If you really want them in printed form most of them are available for not too much money on the secondary market.

Quite the stack... Side note: At the beginning if the video I used the original William Church maps created for the RQ2 rulebook. You might notice that a lot of the letters on the map have a yellowing to them because they were pasted on. The smaller names were put on with letraset letters.

We don't need a license to do the Avalon Hill era RQ3 supplements. Chaosium retained the copyright, especially on all the Gloranthan supplements. Greg got all that as his part of the split of Chaosium's assets when he left the company in 1998, and Moon Design bought it all from him in 2013. Many of the RQ3 supplements that were RQ2 updates, like Apple Lane, Snake Pipe Hollow, the Gloranthan Bestiary, and TrollPak aren't worth reprinting (at least beyond the TrollPak map). They aren't different enough. The Monster Coliseum and Griffin Island boxed sets, RQ Cities are too generic. Daughters of Darkness and Eldarad are a hard pass. Not much point in reprinting Gods of Glorantha, Troll Gods, Elder Secrets, or the Genertela boxed sets as that range of info is already in print in a more comprehensive fashion, or soon will be. Reprinting Vikings and Land of Ninja are tempting, but they are not a priority. That just leaves Sun County, Strangers in Prax, Shadows on the Borderland, Dorastor, and Lords of Terror. We might reprint the first three, and maybe do the last two as a combo reprint, but I haven't spent any time thinking about that. I would like to get the Troubled Waters scenario from River of Cradles reprinted, but I wouldn't reprint the rest of the book since Pavis and Big Rubble are both available again.

I'm sorry to continuously disappoint and underwhelm you. I'm sorry we can't compete with late 70s and early 80s prices. I'm sorry we won't be reprinting or creating more RQ1 material. Please do not hesitate to let me know how I can further disappoint you going forward. I would point out that the poster maps are actually better than the originals and don't come folded, but I suspect you would miss the folded versions like in the good old days. And I've added a smiley so it's all ok. 🙂

All of the red bubble maps for RQ2 are EXACTLY like the original map. We didn't remove ANYTHING from them. We specifically set them up to go with these books, not as some "piece of art" devoid of game useful details. If you take a look at any of them you will see they have a legend on them. Having redbubble links on chaosium is probably easy enough to do. Thank you for that suggestion.