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Thanks for the tips on Affinity Publisher. I bought the Affinity applications not long ago. They are great value and also very good overall. I've used Affinity Photo a lot, but just started dabbling with Publisher.

53 minutes ago, g33k said:

Flash news from Chaosium -- the Red Book of Magic project has been cancelled!   (edit:  calm down, good master StormSpear -- it's a joke, a joke!)

Flash news from Chaosium -- Chaosium announces the Red Deck of Magic spell-cards.  😇

Calm down Wakboth!

7 minutes ago, Jason Durall said:

An updated version has just gone up on the Chaosium and DTRPG sites. 

You guys are really quick with fixes. I just downloaded v1.01. Thanks.

I really love how well produced the RQG products are. Fantastic art, great looking maps and layout that is also uniform and easy to read. Not to forget the amazing new content. My humble thanks to all involved for making RuneQuest look this good.

Congratulations to top 1 seller spot on Drivethrurpg.com.

On 2/24/2020 at 5:23 PM, Scotty said:

As the person who put together the last Rune font, the runes are irregular as they look terrible as monolithic blocks of symetrical black. For the ones I had to redo, I scanned them, autotraced, then smoothed, then edited a bit more to make the rough. Here's the truth rune without fill, showing the line points.

Lhankor Mhy's constellation has many more stars than Orlanth's Ring.

5 hours ago, soltakss said:

It is too far away for sense chaos to have any effect. Also, it is buried under a lot of rock and soil, so this masks Sense Chaos.

I would not use rules to play that bit out if I would include it in a Pavis adventure.

23 hours ago, Shiningbrow said:

Q: if Wakboth's eye is under Pavis, would the Stormbullies be permanently uneasy?

I'd say uneasy is Storm Bullers resting state. So it would be on a scale, like slightly more uneasy.

On 12/28/2019 at 2:04 PM, MOB said:

*challenge issued to Jonstown Compendium creators!

I challenge Chaosium to pick it up and release as an official product with a higher production budget. ; ) I know there are things which might not be solvable, like huge page count, general public interest contra sales etc. But one can dream.

Anyway, I really appreciate what all Jonstown Compendium authors are doing, no matter how big or small.

On 12/24/2019 at 11:23 AM, 7Tigers said:

Who is the feather horse queen's illustrator please?

It's Magdalena Mieszczak from Poland. Check her artstation site here;

https://www.artstation.com/eihwaz

Great, new RQG material! Perfect as a present to myself. : )

The maps again looks fantastic, kudos to Olivier. You can preview the South Wilds area map in the "See 11 more pictures" slideshow.

Sounds great! Please take the time to make it the king of Dragon Pass maps. I really like all other maps of the area and surroundings. Perhaps I'm easily impressed. But there has always been some minor things that could have been done better on each version.

On 10/20/2019 at 2:46 PM, Puckohue said:

 

Thanks a lot for posting this, I've missed it and it was really good and interesting info.

Awesome and evocative art.

Fantastic! Congratulations!

1 hour ago, kirinyaga said:

Hey, it's only a fair return for the rare, difficult and highly esoteric skill of Read/Write(language) ! 

So a Scribe-Warrior would be optimal for the Egregious munchkinnery thread?

38 minutes ago, PhilHibbs said:

I'm not sure that it's even on the schedule. Seems to me like it's an internal reference document, since it's just a collation of material from elsewhere. It's a big list of spells. Is that really what we want in an RQG product?

Maybe I'm wrong, maybe it's more than that. 

Having said that, if I were at GenCon then I would absolutely be going home with one of these in my luggage

I did reflect on that, but as it was titled "Preview" I thought there was something more coming. I agree that it might not be a book for store customers, but maybe a PDF only release for fans?

10 hours ago, Akhôrahil said:

This seems pretty shockingly powerful.

Apparently books are far better than the best possible teacher for the same period of study?

Would you still get the bonuses if you hired someone to read it for you? 

For sure. Learning by experience when you have a high skill can take something like six seasons to earn a 3% increase. Unless you choose to roll and get the obligatory 1% increase instead.

The Red Book of Magic is it late, middle or early in the upcoming books queue? I'm easily teased by topics like this.

Interesting! I like sneak peeks. Is there limitations coupled with your present skill value or is it flat increase? Increasing a skill +10% when it is very high already can be powerful.

I kind of miss some sort of "Skills Category Modifier" tables in the GM Pack reference sheets. Because we reference them quite often.

I saw the new RQG character sheet uploaded by Galafrone here. See link just below. It is an very nice four page character sheet with more space for everything. I recommend checking it out.

It also had a small table for easy referencing the Skills Category Modifiers. I borrowed it from Galafrone's character sheet (hope that is ok) and made a small printout for my players. Because almost every season end (between adventures) one of my players goes up or down in a characteristic and need to check all the categories again.

Let's say one player train DEX and goes from 12 to 13. First check the bottom table. You find that it gives an +5% increase for the "Major" row. Then check the upper table column "Major". It shows that skills category modifiers for Agility, Manipulation and Stealth goes up because they DEX is in the "Major" column.

Credit to Galafrone and Silvia. I just found it was a very good and compact table.

Thanks for the update. Great art as usual!

Will the two scenario packs Smoking Ruins and Pegasus Plateau be smaller softback books?

20 minutes ago, David Scott said:

Yes, but just be aware it's been superseded by the map base from the Guide. The map is a little off, but still usable in your Glorantha.

As you say, with any older material people have to be aware of corrections. For overview map I prefer the new map in RQG which is available in the GM Pack. It is the best looking one and also has the major roads. Only minor issue is the somewhat too dirty textured look. Neither of those have the details of the old Dragon Pass Gazetteer map by W.Q. But it is fine as details are better left for more zoomed in maps than those two.

On 6/23/2019 at 12:43 AM, g33k said:

As per the above, in the RQ2 line.  Easily upgraded to RQG.

Nochet is coming.  Urban, matriarchal, soft power via politics & trade & arranged marriages &... Yes, and blackmail, assassination, etc.

Casino Town & Holy Country. 

Updates are coming for Pavis&Rubble, for Sun County.  Trollpak is coming, both the RQ2 Classic (via RQClassic KS) and an all-new, likely RQG set.

They had to start somewhere.

Given that this IS the edition that (finally) centers on the Hero Wars, beginning in Dragon Pass seems utterly sensible; and the core book was ALREADY big, I'm not sure I see addung more cultures / backgrounds / Cults / etc as a smart move.

One omission that I think hurts a bit is not (or at least, not sufficiently) highlighting the "urban Orlanthi" of Boldhome/etc.  The city/country dichotomy is substantive!  I would expect a brand-new Adventurer from a family settled for generations in Boldhome to be rather different from one whose clan has been on the Stead since the time of Sartar himself...

 

Books on Nochet, Esrolia and the Holy Country, I want that very much. It's very close to Sartar but different in culture and a huge city to explore.