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31 minutes ago, MOB said:

FYI everyone:

 

This was my first CoC book.  Presently on the shelf to my right.  The twine and wrapping paper is very cool.  I've never seen that before.

Will the HQ Sartar and Pavis books be made available?

David Larkins mentions in the interview at https://www.whatwouldthesmartpartydo.com/2020/10/18/king-arthur-pendragon that there is historical precedent for women fighters, etc and that this change was Greg Stafford's intention.

Honestly, it should be up to the group.  Personally, in my game I like the idea of females playing more of the manipulative Morgause or Cersei Lannister type rather than a fighter and that's what I'll probably go with, but that's just me.

17 hours ago, MOB said:

With its ruling patterns and marginalia, Simeon Cogswell's beautiful layout of our new Pendragon 6th Ed Quickstart 'The Adventure of the Great Hunt' is designed to evoke a medieval manuscript. (The last image is from the Manesse Codex, an actual medieval manuscript, for comparison).

Love everything about the QS with the exception of 2 things:

1) The illustration of the knights on p. 19 clashes with every other interior illustration in the whole document.

2) The font used for the cover title (white) and section headings (burgundy) doesn't strike me a particularly medieval.  Would like to see something more gothic like in the actual medieval manuscript.  If I had my druthers such a font would be used throughout, but I know you have to think about readability.  Still, more a more gothic font in the section headings would go a long way to give everything that much more of a medieval look, in my opinion.

I would think there will be a $10 print option like the Runequest quickstart rules. 

Looks so nice.  All but 5 or 6 look big enough to make a good HC book.  Could saddle stitch also possibly be an option for the ones that were originally in that format?  I.e. Cults of Prax, Cults of Terror etc.  That's such a good format for the gaming table because they lay flat more easily.

At any rate, thanks so much for this.  Really looking forward to them.

On 7/24/2020 at 12:33 PM, Atgxtg said:

I suspect the only way someone is going to get a physical version of any of the older books is either to find an existing one, or get the PDF printed. Again, I can understand why someone would want the old books (I'm glad that I have the ones I've got), but I don't see it making much sense from a business standpoint to try and recreate an old supplement.

I thought Rick said something about this a while ago so I did the search and found it.

On 12/15/2018 at 12:52 PM, Rick Meints said:

We at the Chaosium feel great passion for the Pendragon family of games. Many of us played it back when it first came out, and still do on and off to this day. Our excitement at seeing the Chaosium logo on it after an absence of 20 years made us pause and reflect on how much we missed being its caretaker. Over the last few years Greg told us how he hoped it would one day return to Chaosium, and now it has. Stay tuned. We intend to do far more than merely reprint and POD the current and back catalog. So many things to do...

I understand this is by no means a confirmation and plans can, and often do, change, but there seems to be at least some appetite at Chaosium to offer print options of legacy Pendragon titles.

The books available are stunning.  It really is a shame this series will go nowhere in the US.

4 hours ago, Atgxtg said:

It seems highly unlikely. Companies rarely reprint material from older editions when they have a current edition in print. It would probably require a lot of people to want such reprints, and probably indicate that the edition currently in print was a flop. 

Of course you could always buy a PDF and get it printed and bound. That's what I did for some of my KAP5 stuff, and it works out well. Of course it helps that the KAP5 was mostly black & white without any fancy art. Most of the earlier KAP stuff was similar. When necessary, I've printed off some PDF purchases in color at home and then had them bound. These days, with a quality PDF,  good printer and paper, it's possible to get pretty good results at a decent price. At least as good as the original print runs for stuff from 25-30 years ago. It's not an ideal solution, but at least it is a practical option.

Sorry I said print option, but I really should have said POD.   With Chaosium starting to offer classic RQ in POD, I thought it likely they might do the same for Pendragon.

The version being Distributed by Chaosium is apparently the Kickstarter version, which is offset printed and not POD.  No idea if this means it is smyth sewn for the binding, if that is something you are also interested to know.

As far as other supplements being translated and brought over, being that Chaosium is just distributing what was published by Nocturnal Media, that would be up to Nocturnal Media and Nosorol.  My personal take is that it doesn't look like it is going to happen because unfortunately Nocturnal Media has not has not shown any life as a company for a very long time.

On 5/28/2020 at 10:28 PM, creativehum said:

Do you mean like KAP 3rd and things like that? Or something else?

I mean everything on Chaosium's Website listed under "Classic Pendragon".  1st, 3rd, and 4th editions and all suplements.

15 hours ago, MOB said:

It already is, on Nocturnal Media's page at DriveThruRPG.

I was referring to things like Ars Maleifica, Dracs, Bestiarium Hispaniae, etc. that are part of Nosorol's line, but haven't been translated to English and brought over.

I suppose the only answer to that question is, as you said to Sid, "That would ultimately be up to Nolosrol, and Nocturnal Media", but if that's the case I don't see anything else coming over.

Will the rest of the line be translated and brought over?

Will any of the classic titles be getting any kind of print option?

I'm going to go out on a limb and speculate that all of these will be postponed to coincide with the recently confirmed 6th edition, which has no release date at this time.

Sounds like a new edition to be announced officially later this year.  Jeff talks about it around the 16:30 sec mark here

This would look really cool if the gold parts (feather, wands, leaves, crown, etc) had a shiny gold foil leaf effect.  It would give it kind of an illuminated manuscript look.

In fact, I really hope Chaosium puts out some works in the Pendragon line, whether it be fiction or game books, that have a historical illuminated manuscript look to them.

With the exceptions of the Colonial one and Brotherhood of the Beast, all of these are in the works.  A snippet of preview art has been shown for Dreamlands, which is tentative for 2020 I believe.

On 8/21/2019 at 7:54 AM, MOB said:

In the wake of Critical Role's 'Shadow of the Crystal Palace' airing on Twitch and YouTube our fulfilment warehouses have been pummelled with orders for the Call of Cthulhu Starter Set. Which is great!

But it seems our overwhelmed US warehouse has goofed somewhere along the way: we're helping our friends at Nocturnal Media out with distribution, and a handful of Starter Set customers were sent a copy of their game 'Aquelarre' by mistake. Don't worry if this happens to you, we'll send you the Call of Cthulhu Starter Set replacement right away! And you can just keep and enjoy 'Aquelarre' too.

When can the general public buy Aqualarre?  I had no idea this even existed until about a year ago otherwise I would not have hesitated to go in for the wooden box in the Kickstarter.

Hopefully there will be KAP news at Gen Con.

Book of Castles, Book of Magic, Myrmidon, and Samurai are all that are announced.  Would love to hear more about any of them.

I think this topic should be extended to include print on demand.

There are so many legacy books available in pdf on chaosium.com and dtrpg that will never be officially reprinted.  I don't see why print on demand is not an option for all of them.

49 minutes ago, Joerg said:

The Red Book of Magic is by design a Work in Progress, as each new cult description published for a minor deity with a single magical spell will expand that book. At the very least, the definitive version of Gods and Goddesses of central Genertela needs to be published to have a starting point.

Perhaps, but the thing is that Jeff has shown the manuscript on facebook.  I would think they would at least be talking about it along with the others.

13 hours ago, Paid a bod yn dwp said:

Everyone here should watch Jeff and Jason’s latest video choc full of RuneQuest announcements...

 

Watched the whole video.  It just occurred to me... no mention of The Red Book of Magic.  Guess it's pretty far off; like more than the other titles mentioned?  

I would like to repeat this question for the HQ Pavis and Sartar books.  And then there the RQ classic books that are begging to see print.

Are this and the Sartar books ever going to see a reprint?