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Tigerwomble

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  1. First of all, apologies if this is an old subject.

    CoC had a new edition, on average, every 3-4 years up until 6th edition. Then 10 years until 7e.

    I'm about to spend on a suite of 7th edition books, which has been out for 6 years.

    I understand that Chaosium has been under new management for a few years now

    and that their edition updates will be different from those of 1e to 6e.

    But we are now at roughly half way between the two. That is an average of 3-4 years and 10 years.

    Whilst reassurances are for the birds and you are unlikely to announce a new edition too soon

    and so affect the sales of the present edition. But are we not getting to a point where people will

    begin to get nervous about buying. I certainly am. It feels like an uncertain time to commit to what is an

     expensive endeavour.

    Are there any indications of the periods between edition releases?

  2. Actually, whilst we're on the subject. I quite like the idea that Cthulhu 7 has implemented and that's making everything percentile (stats). I'm supposing that adopting this for BRP wouldn't be too much of an issue.

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  3. Boy. Good luck to Chaosium keeping up with those expectations. We do veraciously devour this stuff. I think if they produced a book a week, we would still be saying 'yeah, but where are the rules for .....' Still, better to have that level of enthusiasm and engagement than not. As for  Heroquesting rules,  they've been on the list for forty years or so. I suspect Jeff will have to do a Heroquest to retrieve this mythic guide. It's probably hidden in some magical form of the British library in the Gods Time.

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  4. As an aside.

    For my RQ game , I have produced a set of battlemap counters.

    These are essentially small, very simple colour illustrations, 25mm x 25mm. (larger for bigger creatures)

    Print them. Mount them on card and cut them out.

    I thought I might put a couple of sheets (A4 high res) up for people to use if they wish.

    Where's the best place?

  5. Indeed. It's nice to mix and match the runes in this way to shape the character.

    It's almost like an advanced form of D&D alignments (did I say that out loud).

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  6. So throwing in a little more disorder (to sit alongside the Man rune) seems to be the correct chemistry. Thanks.

    I know YGMV. But it's still nice to be guided by the confines as detailed in the game.

  7. My other runes are pretty set at this point (being Fire and Darkness). The game is heading towards a 'Thieves World' type of game. The other character is a Lanbril worshipper. So Harmony, whilst well presented by Shiningbrow, would probably put my character at such odds with the other character (90% Disorder) as to be unplayable. It's a meta thing, I know, but we also have to play together.

    I suppose why i'm asking is define any criminal tendency in light of his Man rune. If Man has a deep relationship with the notions of civilisation and crime is something that can potentially undermine social cohesion. Is it incompatible? 

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  8. I'm playing a character whose main Rune is Man. Through a series of events too long to recount here,

    he is without a cult (except lay membership with Yinkin, having failed to become an initiate as his Beast Rune is greatly lessened).

    Originally born in Pavis, but forced to grow up in Sartar, he is now returning to Pavis.

    The obvious route is to become a Pavis Initiate (a distinct possibility). Although there is also Daka Fal and Flesh Man.

    My sense is that the Man rune, among other things, is about civilisation. That natural propensity of man to bind together

    and build societies. Not only that, but an acceptance of all that society is, including it's underbelly.

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  9. I'm a little late to this, and to be honest, I haven't read every post.

    What struck me was the use of  'vs'. I don't think they can be pitted one against the other. Apples and oranges.

    Both seek to tell stories in different ways, both of which have merit. After that it's it's purely subjective.

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  10. Does anyone know what the plans are generally to update older publications such as Sartar and Sartar Companion,

    to the new start dates, apart from the Gazetteer in Roleplaying in Glorantha. Not that i'm in any hurry. I just wondered. 

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  11. I'm assuming it will tie closely into the existing material and will just be an expansion of what has already been established.

    Specifically the effects on Pavis in the wake of the Lunars having left.

  12. The Glorantha Sourcebook states the following concerning Dragonewts -

    The dragonewts appear in several different shapes,
    although they claim all of them are one species. It has
    been generally agreed that the various forms of dragonewt
    are different stages of development, but this is unproved.

    The article then goes on to describe the dragonewts as if
    the different stages are the truth. The ambiguity is completely discarded.

    Are the descriptions of the different stages, EWF text making the assumption that their conclusions
    are correct? Whilst the sentence stating development stages to be 'unproved', is the game narrator?
     

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