Rick Meints

Sartar and the Sartar Companion are currently disabled on Lulu because of print quality issues. They shall return soon. I just finished updating all of the original layout page by page for each of those two books, and am currently updating their covers. We don't have all our books as POD on DTRPG or Lulu because of lack of time, not desire. POD books don't sell in large numbers, nor do we make a lot of money per book on them. Thus, they are a lower priority, as opposed to creating and publishing new books, which sell in far greater numbers and earn us a lot more money. Ideally, it would be wonderful if every one of our out of print books lived on as a POD title available in hardcover and softcover bindings (as makes sense). We'll get there over time, but it takes more time to do this than you probably would estimate. We also have to separately redo each cover layout for hardcover format and softcover format. POD uses a different paper to what was used to print the "regular print run" for the book, so we have to adjust for the new spine width.

We will have them available as POD via the Chaosium website later this year.

We have no plans to make it available as a PDF. Jeff and Jason have been using the info found in those "unpublished" books as the basis of some of the scenario material in forthcoming adventure books.

I have two spare original Pavis & Big Rubble softcover books. I am willing to sell one for $150, plus priority mail shipping costs. The last of the original print run sold out almost 10 years ago. They are only available on the secondary markets, like eBay. Finding one at the original retail price is extremely unlikely. The book cannot easily be reprinted because it was printed in 1999, and was printed via film, not a "print quality" PDF, like books are today.

The Gloranthan Classics (4 volumes) were published between 1999 and 2005. They are tweaked versions of material mainly published for RQ2 (1978-1983) with a small amount of RQ3 (1984-1998) Cult material in the Cult Compendium. Thus, the material is all over 20 years old. Great stuff, but the RQ rules and the world of Glorantha have been evolved since then.

I sold the last of P&BR about 8 years ago. I did, however, find a few extra copies in the vaults last year. Please private message me if you are interested. These are from my private collection, and aren't available at retail prices.

We have enough stock of the RQ rulebook that we probably won't be reprinting it until some time in 2021. Every time we reprint a book we usually update it for typos and other corrections.

If someone feels that ElfQuest and Ringworld should have forums set up for them, Trif is the admin to ask.

Pendragon will be switching from POD to regular print runs for many titles. Future titles will most likely be full color hardbacks, like our RQ and CoC books.

I can't remember Greg definitively saying whether he liked the Lunars better than the Orlanthi, or vice versa. I do know this. He definitely preferred playing a Lunar character in live action freeforms. I have a feeling he personally related more to the Lunar way than the Orlanthi way. Greg's RQ RPG campaigns were pretty much just based in Sartar, although he did play a bit in Prax and with the Malkioni. Most of his "unfinished works" tended to be Lunar centric, so he wrote about the Lunars more.

David Larkins is best placed to answer the last two questions.

Looking more closely at all 4 boxed sets that I have, I seem to notice a development pattern, plus each set has product catalog info that helps date it. Brown and Green cover rulebooks do not have the errata printed on the inside front and back covers. These have the errata included as a separate sheet of paper. The Red cover and full color cover rulebook have the errata printed on the inside front and back covers. Thus, I have revised my earlier post on the printing sequence.

Yes, new material will be for 6th edition.

Sourcebook with scenarios.

They are being worked on, although none are in an advanced stage of layout.

We don't expect to do it in hardcover, nor do we expect to sell it separately.

We usually have a dedicated thread to forthcoming publications. We prefer to update people there than keeping an eye out for new threads asking the same question with somewhat different wording. As has been said, we have lots of books in the works, and we chat about them on a number of existing threads. We don't announce specific availability for a book until layout is underway, or possibly even not until layout is complete. Then we know when the PDF will go up for sale and when the book will go to the printer.

While our wisdom is far far from infinite, we print a limited number of leatherettes for most of our RPG books, and that will include Malleus.

The only books we do in softcover are our fiction titles, and books under 128 pages. As has been said, you can see the book price on the back cover, which is included with the PDF of that book. We don't bother with having the PDF price on the back cover of the PDF of the book. We did some softcover Keeper and Investigator books solely for the kickstarter because that's what backers purchased. We aren't going to reprint them in softcover.

Are you referring to the Hero Wars boxed set published by Issaries Inc.?

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 "Everything needed to play! A $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 "Everything needed to play! A $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. NOTE: I also have in my collection a 1" boxed set that has the red monochrome cover perfect bound rulebook in it. I imagine that this was just an early one collated with old stock they wanted to use up. Games Workshop also published the following RQ2 supplements, with their "star" logo or "rolling D6" logo: Apple Lane Griffin Mountain Cults of Prax (Prax Map cover) Snakepipe Hollow Soloquest Scorpion Hall Snow King's Bride

The classic version of Worlds of Wonder doesn't need to be renamed, beyond possibly just calling it "Worlds of Wonder Classic". I don't see that as causing confusion.

We almost always sell the PDF version of a printed book about 3 months before the printed version is available. Gods of Glorantha will not be an exception to that approach.

Thank you for the compliments. The Chaosium Call of Cthulhu team all works very hard to produce quality material in all aspects. As for the quality of some of the material produced for the 3rd through the 6th edition, there is no all encompassing answer. One thing I do know is that from 1998 until 2015, a period of almost 20 years, Chaosium was in a financial crisis and always struggled to have enough money to keep going. Most things were done on a shoestring budget.

There's a chance, but all of the rights to do that are tied up at the moment. We can't publish or reprint anything for Ringworld until the rights are available and we could get the license again. NOTE: Chaosium only lost the license because a film company wanted ALL of the rights to Ringworld for their project (which never materialized).