Dom Escott

Truly loved reading and reminiscing on past publications - this MIG was well worth the money and I’ve loved seeing what I own and what I missed out on (anyone have Roots in Glorantha they would trade?) Slight observation based off a lovely conversation with Greg at a Continuum ;convention where he signed my copy, @Rick Meints I’m intrigued why the “2006 Lives of Sedenya “ by Greg is listed as ‘Independent products” rather than included as part of the `Stafford Libraries’ circa -page 45…. I don’t mean to be picky but labelling a Greg volume as Independent seems harsh in my mindset - maybe you know a bit more about why you labelled as such?’ Really is trivial but a treasured memory y’know?! Regardless of my minor observation (when reading I thought “Wow! i might have something extra for Rick!) - This is a brilliant *brilliant* edition and an aged Gloranthaphile will delight to revisit past publications… I’m just glad we can leave it to Rick to chronicle all things Glorantha published! Top work ! Roll on MIG:4 with RQ:G included 🙂

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I'd also like to join an online game - loads of TT experience, but never played online and would love to try before GMing myself!

Glorantha has seen it's second Sun-Stop moment... The darkness that assails us now in our hearts and minds at the edges of the light that was Greg is felt by an overwhelming global community ... Whilst briefly being introduced to role playing at 12 at school, within weeks, the worlds shifted when I was asked to "fill the shoes" of a more experienced player in a somewhat different remit based in a place apparently called Balazar, whilst the original "player" (quoted because I never saw him play!) striving to have his first relationship... I could say I was blown away - nearly literally, by the scenario in which I was parachuted into that involved Mostali - *flintlocks* - and an overriding battle with these Wooden Aldryami trying to save our bacon against their enemies. Well... Hell... That blew "leveling up", and dice roll charts.... etc. I'd been plonked into a relationship with Glorantha for what, some 35 years ago: and I've never looked back frankly! But that said, this thread is about Greg: and I am privileged to have had interactions that are so strong in my heart I cant begin to put them into words (or at least never had until now): So, once in love with Griffin Mountain and RQ2 which I purchased, once thoroughly read (and re-read over and over!) the penultimate page inside the back cover reached out to me and gave me a glimpse beyond this being a merchandise operation, with a title something akin of "Coming soon from Chaosium", in which it listed alongside Pavis, Sartar campaigns and so forth a short paragraph on Dorastor. Having learnt my first experience of chaos via a Broo raid (omg, Cults of Terror just been released within months, and if I was allowed to read it (Gm Only stuff!) would have been left how complex a world had been woven), so I wrote to Chaosium from the UK to the USA which was my first ever international post (to me at that time a faceless entity) a simple, "Hey guys! This Dorastor sounds amazing, whens it coming out?" - maybe not that short, but you get the drift. Two months later (bless the postal system) I could not believe to *actually* receive a three page letter from Greg personally who told me of a thing called "playtesting" and that they were working hard on it, and indeed retold situations (scenarios?) of villages of undead, a gorp so big you had to *swim* to its center, and so much more. That is when the cog hit me, and in a way thats when I first met Greg. I've held this correspondence in my heart ever since as I know my adolescent letter was the first time I got an adult -lengthy- reply, and Greg made my first Sun-stop moment as it were. Glorantha was part of my soul, I GMed and played through all plethora of RQ2 supplements, and RQ3 I guess via the renaissance, But whilst people perhaps frown on Hero Wars, it did bring to my group of players an intoxicating and addictive plethora of sub cults, affinities and OK, we might now play whats called HQ, but I'd say we still Hero War that I was proud to crowdfund before it was called that, and it was at that juncture in 2011,in Leicester I got to meet Greg for real: it was a last minute thing, I hadn't planned to go to my first convention alone, but circumstances and bad times elsewhere lured me to go and to be frank if it wasn't for picking up two *a-hem "Kracken" organizers* on the way from the airport, I did walk daunted into a hall of people who were intimately and animatedly talking, but in a sea of strangers I found myself sat quietly alone, with what looked a LONG weekend ahead of me, I wondered if I'd be going home in the morning and had made a dreadful mistake... Second Sun-Stop moment: But then, from nowhere, Greg sat by me - I've no clue if he could see my mounting paranoia or isolation, but I now look back, and hearing what everyone has written in this thread and much more before that, I think Greg knew "we are all us" and someone needed that moment from him: or hell - he did it to everyone. Don't care - that's Shamanistic in my eyes. We didn't talk Glorantha or such, he quickly learned I studied Archaeology and immediately we spoke for a long time on British Prehistory and sites, their significance and so forth.. From that moment I knew I was going to see the weekend to the its end - one day I'll assimilate or understand what he spoke to me about the pairing stones in Prax... a shaman indeed. In a brilliant session about channeling your inner dinosaur that Greg led that convention, I felt like THE sole lonely stegosaurus in a field on other predator dinosaurs, Greg looked up and winked, smiled as he smiled, and made the motions that his inner dinosaur was also a stegosaurus. I immediately knew I was among friends, and had a great time thereon, I've not even talked about the impact of other systems like CoC (Shadows, Masks and Orient are another Chapter for another time)... Hail! ... and farewell ... Greg - even Nysalor couldn't burn so brightly Glorantha has seen it's second Sun-Stop moment... The darkness that assails us now in our hearts and minds at the edges of the light that was Greg is felt by an overwhelming global community ... Whilst briefly being introduced to role playing at 12 at school, within weeks, the worlds shifted when I was asked to "fill the shoes" of a more experienced player in a somewhat different remit based in a place apparently called Balazar, whilst the original "player" (quoted because I never saw him play!) striving to have his first relationship... I could say I was blown away - nearly literally, by the scenario in which I was parachuted into that involved Mostali - *flintlocks* - and an overriding battle with these Wooden Aldryami trying to save our bacon against their enemies. Well... Hell... That blew "leveling up", and dice roll charts.... etc. I'd been plonked into a relationship with Glorantha for what, some 35 years ago: and I've never looked back frankly! But that said, this thread is about Greg: and I am privileged to have had interactions that are so strong in my heart I cant begin to put them into words (or at least never had until now): So, once in love with Griffin Mountain and RQ2 which I purchased, once thoroughly read (and re-read over and over!) the penultimate page inside the back cover reached out to me and gave me a glimpse beyond this being a merchandise operation, with a title something akin of "Coming soon from Chaosium", in which it listed alongside Pavis, Sartar campaigns and so forth a short paragraph on Dorastor. Having learnt my first experience of chaos via a Broo raid (omg, Cults of Terror just been released within months, and if I was allowed to read it (Gm Only stuff!) would have been left how complex a world had been woven), so I wrote to Chaosium from the UK to the USA which was my first ever international post (to me at that time a faceless entity) a simple, "Hey guys! This Dorastor sounds amazing, whens it coming out?" - maybe not that short, but you get the drift. Two months later (bless the postal system) I could not believe to *actually* receive a three page letter from Greg personally who told me of a thing called "playtesting" and that they were working hard on it, and indeed retold situations (scenarios?) of villages of undead, a gorp so big you had to *swim* to its center, and so much more. That is when the cog hit me, and in a way thats when I first met Greg. I've held this correspondence in my heart ever since as I know my adolescent letter was the first time I got an adult -lengthy- reply, and Greg made my first Sun-stop moment as it were. Glorantha was part of my soul, I GMed and played through all plethora of RQ2 supplements, and RQ3 I guess via the renaissance, But whilst people perhaps frown on Hero Wars, it did bring to my group of players an intoxicating and addictive plethora of sub cults, affinities and OK, we might now play whats called HQ, but I'd say we still Hero War that I was proud to crowdfund before it was called that, and it was at that juncture in 2011,in Leicester I got to meet Greg for real: it was a last minute thing, I hadn't planned to go to my first convention alone, but circumstances and bad times elsewhere lured me to go and to be frank if it wasn't for picking up two *a-hem "Kracken" organizers* on the way from the airport, I did walk daunted into a hall of people who were intimately and animatedly talking, but in a sea of strangers I found myself sat quietly alone, with what looked a LONG weekend ahead of me, I wondered if I'd be going home in the morning and had made a dreadful mistake... Second Sun-Stop moment: But then, from nowhere, Greg sat by me - I've no clue if he could see my mounting paranoia or isolation, but I now look back, and hearing what everyone has written in this thread and much more before that, I think Greg knew "we are all us" and someone needed that moment from him: or hell - he did it to everyone. Don't care - that's Shamanistic in my eyes. We didn't talk Glorantha or such, he quickly learned I studied Archaeology and immediately we spoke for a long time on British Prehistory and sites, their significance and so forth.. From that moment I knew I was going to see the weekend to the its end - one day I'll assimilate or understand what he spoke to me about the pairing stones in Prax... a shaman indeed. In a brilliant session about channeling your inner dinosaur that Greg led that convention, I felt like THE sole lonely stegosaurus in a field on other predator dinosaurs, Greg looked up and winked, smiled as he smiled, and made the motions that his inner dinosaur was also a stegosaurus. I immediately knew I was among friends, and had a great time thereon, I've not even talked about the impact of other systems like CoC (Shadows, Masks and Orient are another Chapter for another time)... Hail! ... and farewell ... Greg - even Nysalor couldn't burn so brightly