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I'm curious why Chaosium appears to be silent on the Fantasy Grounds VTT as it seems to be the most advanced (or most public!). Perhaps I missed the memo. From the Twitter posts the implementation looks to be quite thorough but I'm not clear whether it's "official" or a fan version, like the Roll20 RQG character sheet.

I couldn’t read much of this thread - it seems like it’s way too easy to overthink this whole topic and the framing is one that surely isn’t available to the inhabitants of Glorantha. Does anyone choose which terrestrial religion to follow based on such “rational” analysis? My group just play the gods that seem fun and interesting and although we are long-time RQ players we are far from being Gloranthan scholars. It wasn’t until these threads started up that I discovered Yelmalio is allegedly not such a great cult (whatever that means). We don’t check the spell lists… Yelmalio is awesome and evokes the feel of the Sun Dome and his community so well. Our campaigns tend to be pretty low level (we like the scrappy, young adventurer vibe of RQ2) - perhaps the differences only become apparent at the higher echelons of runic achievement. We’ll carry on doing what we’ve been doing. Unless I’ve misunderstood, what strikes me about this thread is the gap between the way RQG’s creators envision it and the way some of its most ardent players/supporters run it. YGMV indeed!

I’ve only played RQG via Roll20 since emerging from the RPG ‘deep freeze’ last year. There’s no Chaosium VTT support for RQG (yet) but the character sheet is very good - I’ve been running a campaign on Roll20 for over a year and it works well. There are lots of great maps and tokens available on Roll20 MarketPlace and some Glorantha specific tokens from Dario Corallo on DT. There is an RQG character sheet on Foundry but, last time I looked, it was pretty basic. There is a seemingly quite comprehensive RQG implementation coming on Fantasy Grounds (see @MadBeardMan on Twitter) but I’m not sure whether Chaosium is involved. Hope this helps.

We allow it, it is Battle (sorry, Spirit) Magic after all. I have no idea whether that's RQG RAW or not. NPC's get to do it too...

Nathem has 35/65 in the RQG rulebook so I believe the 45/65 in the Starter Set is a typo.

This is excellent, thank you.

Nathem's Folio: Fertility should be 35, not 45 (Death is 65) It's also possible that his left arm AP should be 4, not 3 depending on whether his leather hunting garb covers that location as well as the cuirboilli bracer

p.2 kerning of "core" appears off p.4 table should not be bold (consistent with other references to tables) Also (but it could be me) the purpose of the "Modifier" in the Market Size and Item Availability table is not explained p.6 kerning, or perhaps spacing? Inconsistent typography.

I really enjoy the full-fat character generation in RQG. Even so, the light-touch version in the wiki is a very handy addition. Thank you.

Thanks for sharing. The JC has put a fair-sized dent in my wallet this year. It has armed me with some excellent resources for my campaign.

Chaosium have stated they are planning to have RQ support on multiple VTTs and are working with the platforms on that, which will understandably take time. If you are on Roll20 the community character sheet is excellent and makes a big difference.

In the RuneQuest Starter set corrections thread some contributors have noted rule differences between RQG and Book One. Is Chaosium planning to address these differences at some point and help us understand whether these are errors, deliberate simplifications for the Starter Set, rule changes or "other"? For example: @7Tigers p.60, skills are supposed to be natural & unmodified > 100% for lowering other people skills now. @Paid a bod yn dwp Book 1 Rules. P27 Second bullet point: “A critical success does double maximum damage.” Should this be “A critical success does double maximum damage, and ignores armor” ? Thanks,

Book 2, pp.44-52 each Quarter of the city details locations that aren't indicated on the map e.g. Dinacoli House, Ruined Barracks, The Three Suns. pp.46-47 The text lists residences for six Sartarite tribes of which four are in use and two not (Maboder and Dinacoli). This seems to tally with p.25 which states "a confederation of four (originally six) Sartarite tribes." But, one of the residences is for the Dinacoli who AFAICT did not join the founding of Jonstown and were/are part of the Alda Chur city Ring (see WF15, p.32). The book doesn't state which the sixth founding tribe was, alongside the Cinsina, Culbrea, Malani, Torkani and Maboder (perhaps I missed it though?) p.51 Market, North third line, staples, not stapes pp.57-61 Map locations Clay Man: the map places it north of Jonstown. p.15 of Book 4 places it west, on the route to Mernyr's Landing at the base of Larnste's table. "A Rough Landing" might be confusing Clay Man with Frithan? Farfield: the Northern Sartar map calls this Farveiw Gejay Hills: description seems off. According to the map on p.26 the Gejay Hills bisect Malani lands rather than separating Malani from Colymar lands. The same might be true of Stael's Hills too. But... Sartarite tribes... this could be true next season 🙂. Horse Rest: description states its belongs to the Culbrea tribe, p.26 places it inside Cinsina territory.

I'm sure I read or heard somewhere that it will provide more detail on the tattoos that we see so many characters bearing in the illustrations and art. The RQ Project podcast 'Tales from the Black Alynx', episode 5 has an interview with the Beer with Teeth folk and this product is mentioned, IIRC. Agree with comments by others that Ossi's artwork is first rate and highly evocative of the setting.

Not so much corrections but observations. Book 2, p.15 "Sex and Marriage", second para, the terms "vingan", "nandan" and "helering" aren't explained. Book 2, p.22 "The Liberation of Sartar", second para, "To extend the Glowline..." This is the first time this term is used and there's nothing to tell an RQ Starter what the Glowline is.

This is a glorious product - congratulations to the Chaosium team. Lots of usable material - Jonstown especially. Australian fulfillment is (as ever) first-class. Ordered it Wednesday evening when it went on sale, physical product arrived Friday morning. It will be a pleasure to read this on the deck with a flat white Saturday morning. 😎

Pregen Folios Aranda of Nochet. How to Play Aranda, fifth bullet. Stasis rune, not Status rune Book One: Rules p.9, right-hand column "Ties" The text says "A tie (where both participants succeed but roll the same number)" is inconsistent with the preceding section that states that the winner in an Opposed Resolution is the party that gets the "better type of success". This deviates from the RQG rulebook p.144 and leaves unanswered situations where: the participants achieve the same type of success but roll different numbers the participants achieve the same type of success, which happens to be a failure The text leaves undefined a number of outcomes that are not described by the solution set (which is different to that in the RQG rules).

As the evening of 10 November slips away before them, the Aussies and Kiwis patiently carry on hitting refresh on their browsers every few minutes... ☺️ Edit: Woo hoo. Ordered!😁

Huh. I didn't know that. The Moon Design era was during my deep freeze. Somehow I have the their Pavis & Big Rubble hardback (I never owned Big Rubble) but I assumed these were otherwise just reprints of boxed sets I already owned. I'll have to check out the PDFs of the other two.

I agree. I received the Chaosium edition (not the GW version) for Christmas - in 1981 I suspect. Considering the RPG hobby was barely 6 years old this was an incredible innovation. I devoured it over the school holidays and ran it for my friends. Often they simply spent time travelling around Balazar, interacting with encounters, getting involved with tribal politics in the three citadels and trying to bring down Halcyon var Enkorth. I still have it but it is so well-used that it is now pretty much a folio of loose sheets bound with 35 year old sellotape. Great memories.

Thank you @Stephen L, @Martin, @Nick Brooke and @Eff - those are comprehensive and helpful explanations.

Hi there, I think this is a Glorantha 101 fail so sorry if this is wasting bandwidth. What is the basis for the tension between Prince Kallyr and Queen Leika alluded to in the GM Adventurers book? Cattle Raid says the Colymar did not support Kallyr at Dangerford and Dragon of Thunder Hills notes that Leika has grudgingly accepted Kallyr as Prince of Sartar. By the Battle of the Queens (GSB) Leika seems to seek valiantly to save Kallyr. I feel I have missed a reference as to what is causing the tension. Thanks,

Agreed and that's the essential point. Not gonna lie... I'm trying to keep my calendar light for the week following so I can immerse myself in the Starter Set.

I get your frustration. But to be fair to Chaosium they don't *always* make ROW wait for the last warehouse to be stocked. They typically launch PDF's ahead of print (e.g. A Time to Harvest) and then launch print in a region as each region's warehouses receive it - RBoM shipped in most regions before it did in Australia. The Starter Set is a signature product for a core product line though and deserving of a global 'big bang' release to create impact. Speculatively, I'd guess there were two factors at play in the announcement of a date: The controlled release/sale of copies to reviewers, their mates and at Cons to create buzz was at risk of getting disconnected from the release itself as time ran on. Eventually commercial reality sets in and the desire/necessity of not missing the Christmas shopping window for the sake of being held to a self-imposed ransom by logistics in the UK. The decision to set a date and make 'best efforts' to drag Blighty over the line is eminently practical. That aside, I completely agree that the whole Brexit shambles is a mess of the UK's own making. I say this as a Brit (living in Australia...)

To be fair to the Chaosium team they have no control over the slow-moving train wreck that is logistics in the UK at the moment. I can only imagine the frustration that is causing them and many other businesses. Maybe Chaosium have in mind a date at which the self-imposed constraint of waiting for Blighty to catch up will be relaxed and the rest of us can get on with it.