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Woods of the Dead Play Aids
This simple supplement provides all of the nonplayer characters published by Chaosium in the chapter “Gloomwillow’s Hollow,” from The Pegasus Plateau. Using the same printer-friendly non-player character format as used in Akhelas’s series Monster of the Month, this product ensures you’ll not feel the urge to scribble spell effects, limbs lost, or magic points spent on your nice, shiny, hardcover books.
You need to own a copy of The Pegasus Plateau to make full use of this product.
You'll probably also want a printer.
You can get this product on the Jonstown Compendium.
A Note: If this product is successful, I'll likely do more of these. If folks have suggestions or requests, I'm listening (but making no promises).
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Thanks so much for listening to those of us asking for POD versions and making them available. I've been wanting a physical copy of Pavis for a while, and picked up Trollpak & Griffin Mountain while I was at it. Really appreciate it, and I hope making these turns out worth your time and energy.
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I'm very excited to share that Treasures of Glorantha Volume One has earned its Electrum bestseller medal!
Many thanks to everyone who's picked it up thus far. If you'd like to see what the fuss is about, you can pick up a copy yourself in PDF or Print On Demand here. If you've already purchased Treasures, I'd love to hear what you think. Ratings are wonderful support, and reviews are a great way to give me feedback for the next one.
Once again, thank you.
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11 hours ago, Jim said:
the unlikely your drawing skills are worse than mine
You've clearly not seen the sketches I send my poor artists for JC stuff. This is a lovely sketch. Thanks for sharing!
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This month's #MOTM is now available on the Jonstown Compendium!
Children of Melikaphkaz previews material from a forthcoming work for the Jonstown Compendium, Melikaphkaz: the O-God of Traps. Included in this issue is a short-form version of the cult of Melikaphkaz (like those in the core rulebook), as well as several monsters for his worshipers to summon, or for the gamemaster to use elsewhere in their Glorantha.
MAY THE SHELTERING DARK PROTECT YOU ALL!
About this Series: Monster of the Month is a series of new bestiary entries for Chaosium's RuneQuest: Roleplaying in Glorantha. In addition to statblocks and behavior, most entries include supplemental detail and advice for gamemasters, and/or new adventurer options for players.
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1 hour ago, BrentS said:
Hey yes. Good spot.
Completely by accident.
Was checking the Waha cult in Cults Compendium and fortuitously noticed that the Biturian sidebar was relevant to this conversation, so I figured I'd give the Guide a quick Ctrl-F as well.
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17 hours ago, soltakss said:On 9/28/2020 at 7:50 PM, BrentS said:
Coffee is far too recent a discovery in our world to have Bronze Age associations
Not sure I would use our world's timeline take on discovery to have much weight here, but having been around the fora for a while I am sure I will get disagreement on this. My take is all you need (as best I understand it) is a herder watching his goats (I will admit this could be hard) getting frisky munching on berries on a hill.
Coffee is available from the islands of Avaranboth (Guide 481), and Savaronabhumy (Guide 494). It's also mentioned in "The Travels of Biturian Varosh" (Cults Compendium 77). Ctrl-F is a good starting point with these sorts of wonderings.
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1 hour ago, jongjom said:
Anyway, no doubt the official announcement is coming but looks like the gates are open to order the physical copy of PP.
Hah, wow! I thought I was luckily on the early end for getting discount code before seeing official word
. How's the dead Aldryami edition looking?
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Looking forward to these a lot. Thanks again, Rick, for making it happen. I've been wanting a physical copy of the GC Pavis & Big Rubble for a while, and it looks like these RQ2 reprints will be perfect for armchair reading. I hope the POD process proves to be financially satisfying, as well as making some fans happy.
I've been wondering, as you share pictures of your collection - do you have a favorite item? Is it even possible for you to name just one?
I imagine it's a little like asking a bibliophile what their favorite book is...
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1 hour ago, Bill the barbarian said:
As to a dishonourable mention... we can’t. One of our guiding principles at the very beginning was to be nice, kind of an anti-Simon C.
(I'd meant myself as Dishonorable, since I'm not supposed to participate...
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On 9/22/2020 at 12:05 AM, Bill the barbarian said:
Heck, maybe even ask Joerg about lore...
Ain't there supposed to be a time limit on this thing?
13 hours ago, Bill the barbarian said:Hey listen, if you lovely folk have questions, this is the forum.
I know I'm ineligible for neato prizes as a sponsor of the contest, but are y'all interested in entries for Dishonorable Mention? Popped in my head recently, and with the extended deadline, I'm considering muddling something together...
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On 9/17/2020 at 6:58 AM, jajagappa said:
More like Upper Mississippi valley (with Yuthuppa on par with Minneapolis). And in summer it does reach 90 there. Only Elz Ast (equivalent to Duluth MN) is far enough (and along the White Sea) to get crappy summers.
Speaking as a Minnesotan, yep, accurate. My experience compared to when I lived on the east coast (and a few hundred miles further south) is that it's more that our summers are shorter, rather than more mild. Maybe by 5 or so degrees, but anything above 90 is still pretty beastly.
And then add humidity... Ugh.
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I'm in a similar spot to Nick - playtesting for the JC, a curse-breaking adventure tentatively titled "The Fouled Earth". We haven't played in a while due to life stuff, but with the lockdown we initially kept consistent games over Discord. Prior to this adventure, I ran my players through "Gloomwillow's Hollow" from The Pegasus Plateau. Believe my co-GM has a hunting interlude planned next, and after I'm planning to run "The Pairing Stones" (again from TPP) since I found a couple nasty little plot hooks for my group's Bison tribe adventurer...
Oh, and at some point they need to go kill Krampus again.
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4 hours ago, Bill the barbarian said:
MA BEAR HANDS, do ya ken?
Bear hands are an unsanctioned building material, please visit your local Gold Mostali representative for a mandatory re-education session.
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August's MOTM, Storm Rams, is now available on DriveThruRPG!
Filling the Air from horizon to horizon, the noble Storm Rams are a new spirit for your game of RuneQuest. They are the embodiment of rain-giving clouds, found anywhere throughout Glorantha. Included in this supplement are:
- A description of what the Orlanthi believe about these spirits
- The bestiary detailing storm rams, lightning rams, cloud sheep, and advice on how to create your own unique, more powerful variations
- One minor magic item—the heat-relieving Mistwool
- An alternative perspective from Prax, including a brief spirit cult
If you're interested in keeping up with what I'm working on, I suggest checking out Wind Whispers, the weekly Glorantha newsletter the fellas behind the Wind Words podcast publish. If I've got something odd or juicy up my sleeve, I usually let them know before I post about it publicly. Plus, there's oodles of other news they pick up throughout the week—it's really convenient.
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13 hours ago, Rick Meints said:
We are going to have print versions of the RuneQuest Classics available before the end of 2020. Thus, you will be able to get Pavis, Big Rubble, Griffin Mountain, Borderlands, Cults of Prax, Cults of Terror, and a number of other books soon.We are doing the final proofing on the POD process.
Wonderful, I'm happy to hear that. Need me a physical copy of Pavis/Big Rubble, at the minimum. Thank you.
Will these be available only on Lulu, or on DTRPG as well?
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37 minutes ago, Minlister said:
Congratulations!! How many copies make for Best Copper Seller?
Copper's 50, Silver's 100, Electrum's 250, and Gold's 500. According to this article and DTRPG's own numbers, most products never even hit Copper.
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21 minutes ago, Jeff said:
-1D6% loss to your relevant Grok Glorantha skill or lose 1d3 points of POW
Well, so long as it's not impacting my SAN...
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23 hours ago, Jeff said:
I'm perfectly happy informing people about what is canon and what is not, especially when that is tied to specific questions.
I know. And I do appreciate it, sincerely, when you're able to take time and share information with us. I'm aware it's not a trivial task.
My comments are equally emotional responses, as much as they are rational statements. Perhaps heavier on the sentimental side; I experience frustration when I ask a question, and someone just goes "Oh, YGMV. Easy, you don't have questions anymore, right?" That's part of why I, and people like me, want to have things written in stone.
Another complication is this expectation that because Glorantha is detailed, Glorantha is detailed. It's a setting which invokes the anal-retentive detail-hound in me. Which is something I enjoy! But I suspect I often assume more information exists than actually does, simply because of the already-large quantity which is published and unpublished alike.
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6 minutes ago, Jeff said:
Work continues on it (I should know as I have weekly meetings with status reports from the team). But we are making no announcements until we are authorised to do so.
I can only speak for myself, but I'm happy hearing that it exists, and is still being worked on. That's good news to hear.
45 minutes ago, Pheres said:In other games, based on novels or movies, we generally know this things by reading or watching the novel/movie, but in Glorantha, there is not such thing.
Something like Forgotten Realms' Drizzt novels, or Warhammer 40K's Black Library would be really cool to read. The main fiction I'm aware of is the Griselda stories from the 80's (although I think there's other stuff out there?).
The Rough Guide to Glamour has some short stories/fictive elements too, which are pretty good. Much more accessible than things like King of Sartar.
The Queen's Heir by John Boyle began life as a Glorantha novel, although the setting was moved to a Fantasy Earth Bronze Age instead. I don't know the story behind that. I haven't gotten to it in my reading stack, but if you're looking for a novel which already exists to point your players to, maybe that's a place to start.
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11 hours ago, Nevermet said:
I mainly want to know what is canon because I want to know when I am diverging from it.
This is a huge piece of it for me, too.
16 hours ago, Virane said:I always find this conversation interesting, and I do have a bit of an issue with the assumptions a lot of folks project with YGMV/YGWV.
I think it's important to not just handwave that statement happily all the time. For some people, that's awesome. They LOVE the idea! It's freeing! It's amazing!
And good for them!
But for other folks, their brains may not work that way. They would prefer to have a concrete world provided to them - and no judgment should ever be applied for any reason to that desire.
It's neither better nor worse, just different.
Seconded.
I know I can change whatever I want for my campaign. But I want to be able to use new books that come out. If I've YGMV'd unintentionally, there's little to getting new material Chaosium publishes if my goal is to pick up published adventures/campaigns for ease of use at the table. To some extent, the "You can do whatever you want! Wonder of YGMV!" line of expression is tiresome because that's what the customer's paying for when they buy an RPG supplement. Someone else to do the hard work of worldbuilding, so we can sit down and just play.
I'm fortunate, in that I can afford to expend a good bit of time and energy in writing my own content and muddling through these sorts of things, trying to figure out what the heck the timeline is, etc. But there's not a lot of people who can do that - and sometimes I feel other commentators don't understand that.
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5 hours ago, Bill the barbarian said:
Ah yes, I have not read that yet, is it the same as the RQ 3 write up?
No clue, sorry. I don't have Elder Races or the RQ3 Glorantha bestiary, just the core box, and only lately been acquiring some of the later books for collection/reference purposes.
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25 minutes ago, lordabdul said:
would that be the first official write-up for Dragonewt magic and Dragonewt cities? I hope it's going to be as trippy as they promise ("mind-bending limits of mortal reality"). Or have Dragonewts been covered before?
Do you count the dragonewt magic described in the Glorantha Bestiary?
Though, I imagine there would be new, strange elements with a whole city of dream-reality bizarro shenanigans.
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7 hours ago, Glorion said:
PS, what does RAW stand for?
RAW = "Rules As Written"
Was checking the Waha cult in Cults Compendium and fortuitously noticed that the Biturian sidebar was relevant to this conversation, so I figured I'd give the Guide a quick Ctrl-F as well.
. How's the dead Aldryami edition looking?
The Troupe of Terror — Monster of the Month #10
in RuneQuest
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This month's issue of Monster of the Month is now available — Happy Halloween!
Content Warning: This supplement contains themes of grisly horror and violence. Gamemasters are encouraged to confer with their players before bringing this material to their group's game.
The Troupe of Terror presents a gang of six man-eating ogres with which the gamemaster can terrorize their players. Woken to Illumination by the magical performances of the Puppeteer Troupe, they represent the worst evils enabled by that mystical consciousness. Now, these ogres roam Dragon Pass in the guise of minstrels and clowns wielding the reality-warping illusions of the Puppeteer.
This supplement includes:
A Note: there's fair odds I'll expand this a bit in the next few days or weeks. I've got a short story in the works I'd like to include but I'm not quite satisfied with, and of course I still need to add the printer-friendly versions at the back of the PDF.
About this Series: Monster of the Month is a series of new bestiary entries for Chaosium's RuneQuest: Roleplaying in Glorantha. In addition to statblocks and behavior, most entries will include supplemental detail and advice for gamemasters and/or new adventurer options for players.