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  1. It's clear that SOMEBODY had performed a major working with the Harmony Rune... 🙂
  2. LoneWolf's HeroLab and AlterEgo's Metacreator both support CoC7 (the newest edition). I believe that both have expressed (at least some) interest in supporting the new RQG edition; I don't know if anything is/has/will come of that "interest." Chaosium has said they hope/intend to get FantasyGrounds and/or Roll20 support going, too. Growing. Chaosium is decidedly growing!
  3. I believe somebody said that RQG has had more sales in the month or so it's been available in PDF-only, than all hard- and soft-copies of MagicWorld across the entire lifespan of the product. If these products are paying your own salary -- your rent/mortgage, your food on the table, your healthcare, etc -- which are you going to pursue? 🤔 IIRC, Chaosium said that "BRP" as a concept is planned to move forward as games with setting+rules integrated into each core-book, with rules tweaked per-setting. So, Runes for RuneQuest, Sanity for Call of Cthulhu, Futhark&Seidr for Mythic Iceland, etc... No "nuBGB" or other "generic" edition of the rules is currently planned. This seems to be based, not on what fans SAY they want, but what they (we) buy... And apparently, we buy Chaosium's kick-ass setting-based RPGs more than we buy their more generic-y DIY-ish games. As noted above, Mythic Iceland is coming, and "Runequest Fantasy Earth" is in early planning/development stages.
  4. I would say that OpenQuest is the leading contender for the "Quick and Simple, but not TOO simple" throne these days. Alephtar's new "Revolution D100" is very tweak'able / configurable, and could probably hit a MW-ish sweetspot once you knew the RD100 rules well enough to set the knobs & dials appropriately (of course, the same is true of the existing BGB). CF has moved to the Mythras/RQ6 engine over at TDM (derived from the MRQII/Legend mechanics). They're going gangbusters on various Mythras lines over there. For many, it's the favored flavor of BRP. Free PDF of their intro ruleset is titled Mythras Imperative. As a very-short ruleset, this too might merit consideration for the "Quick&Simple throne (albeit the game still uses Action Points and Combat Effects, so it isn't the "Simplest" of BRP's...) The '70/'80-era RQ2 reprint "RuneQuest Classic" edition is still finishing its last few Stretch Goals. Brand new "Runequest" edition, yes. Now With Runes! Seriously, the most "Gloranthan" and "Runic" version of Runequest ever (the online-ism is "RQG"). A beautiful piece of work! PDF on sale now, with full credit at Chaosium-store for the hardcovers when they ship (printed, on container-ships to distribution centers). New Glorantha Bestiary is going to the printers. GM Screen Pack with 3 adventures + Sandbox mini-setting is almost done (and a slipcase set of the RQG/Bestiary/GMPack is expected later this year). GM Book and 50-Cult "Gods Book" are both VERY far-along, unclear which will be "next", and MANY more products a bit further downstream. Mythic Iceland 2e is reportedly MS-complete and somewhere in the art-and-layout stages. Chaosium has announced a "RuneQuest Fantasy Earth" product line (for which Mythic Iceland is presumably the first entry). Just recently announced is an all-new SciFi flavored line of BRP/RQ game. Um. There's more stuff from All the Usual Suspects -- I haven't mentioned C&W, or any of d101's many fine products beyond the OQ core, CoC7 line, etc etc etc... I think a lot of people would like a MW-engine entry in the Modern Urban Fantasy genre. Real-world, 2010-2020 ish, plus the occult (n.b. NOT another Mythos entry (that's handled!), or horror-centric (too cthulhic) but full-on "Fantasy." (Which reminds me - JSnead's After the Vampire Wars is also now over at TDM running on the Mythras engine).
  5. Excellent. That's a product that has been on my radar for a while (most of my group, at present, are not so militarily-oriented), and that I've recommended several times to folks interested in a "Modern Special Ops" game. Plus, it seems just SO ripe for blending with any of several other genre's for a tasty homebrew. Add different flavors of occult, get different flavors of "Modern Urban Fantasy" with that military cast; add some SciFi elements and get something like the old "V" space-invaders franchise, or the Stargate movies / TV-series... etc etc etc. Just a great resource! I look forward to new news.
  6. Just take a ferry down to Seattle, eh? I know it's WotC turf, but I'm sure you could turn some of the gamers there to the RQG side of the Force... 😉 edit: and, of course, I am 100% in accord with the OP and others on this thread. Magnificent work, Chaosium!!!
  7. I replied back in mid-July, but I think the mobile-device interface glitched and it never posted, or deleted-upon-edit, or some similar annoying mobile-skin/OS/etc-bisoncrap. So I'm paraphrasing, because a "thank you" is decidedly in order and I seem to be short by (at least) one: THANK YOU Rick, both for the update and for keeping the KS stuff KS-centric so backers don't have to worry if they are overlooking news on G+/FB/BRPC/etc... This policy is VERY much appreciated!
  8. <bump> for @Jason Durall or @MOB or whomever ... I had (have) some criticisms... but it was (is) really really pretty ! So... pretty please??? 🤩
  9. I suspect this is part of the (non-free) "GM Screen Pack." But I don't know that as a fact. There may be some PDF sheets, with some overlapping content with the GMSP, available as a free download. Also, having the PDF of the core RQG book lets you assemble your own reference-sheets in whatever manner and with whatever content you prefer...
  10. Note that everywhere thinks they are the center of existence. Prax/Pavis considers Sartar/Esrolia stuff to be "parochial / local interest" and those places consider the Prax/Pavis area (and each other) in the same manner. Given the Dragon-Pass-centricity of the Hero Wars events, it's very arguable that Argrath's "Prax/Pavis" arc is mere intro/backstory for the more Sartar-centric plotlines... 😉 I think it's a very valid question, though, to ask if an essentially Prax/Pavis/Cradle campaign would get much usable/playable content from the Sartar-centric Red Cow Saga. I suspect the answer is, "not so much; unless of course the Prax/Pavis PC's find a reason to ally themselves with the Red Cow clan, and participate in Sartar-centric stories" ... but given the commonality of the Lunar foes, that is FAR from implausible! I could easily see the PC's deciding that their efforts in Sartar could work wonders for taking Lunar pressure off Prax/Pavis & the Zola Fel... Kind of a classic military doctrine, in fact.
  11. TYVM for the making this clear, Jeff! And to be clear in turn -- I wouldn't expect a "RQG" book to be dual-statted. If Chaosium is disinclined to the experiment, that's a choice I can respect -- I recognized it AS an experiment (and remain curious about the outcome, at least hypotheticaly -- but its your folks' bread and butter (and mortgages, and healthcare, etc) ) . I just wondered if y'all could get to all 3 audiences (RQ players, HQ players, 13G players -- admitting there is some overlap! but does anyone know how much??? I'd think this would be something you'd really like to know, business-wise... ) with a book including all 3 systems' crunch, alongside the story/fluff/etc parts of an adventure or campaign. = = = What would you think of small / pure-crunch supplements for published books? e.g. ComingStorm/ElevenLights:RQG-Crunch (and ComingStorm/ElevenLights:13G-Crunch) -- just the stat-blocks, spells, etc for each system, to accompany the excellent stories/etc in the campaigns (ditto SKoH & SC, and so forth); and HQ + 13G Crunch-packs for the new GM Screen Pack campaign/adventure material) etc etc etc...
  12. Q - If we contemplate RQG'ifying the original Apple Lane scenario, how long an in-world gap for those events / characters / etc until the RPG events of the GMSP? edit -- I'm not so concerned with canonical "dates" in the world of Glorantha, as I am about the specific characters and places in Apple Lane. Has Gringle retired? Has the little town gotten much bigger? Have the Notable Persons changed a lot? etc... in other words, if I move straignt from the original Apple Lane scenario to the GMSP sandbox version of Apple Lane, how much do I need to adjust to avoid glaring discrepancies?
  13. g33k

    nuYGMV

    I think a LOT of gamers get burnt by buying older-canon and discovering their purchases are problematic at the gaming-table. I'm not pointing the finger specifically at Glorantha here, or RQ/HQ (or even at the accursed snake-killing tribe from the Second Age). I experienced the same thing e.g. in 3e Ars Magica, when the WW-era books were all deprecated and the setting exorcised of demons and True Reason both. For YEARS afterwards, I found players coming to online-play venues, and showing up at 'Cons / etc. and asking about new-PC concepts when I recruited for my at-home game... where 3e-isms were deeply embedded in their character, but the campaign / adventure / etc wasn't compatible. Sometimes I could torque things to fit (esp. at a Con game, that'd be my go-to strategy) but I was never satisfied with this solution, in any context. And many players reported quite a bit of dismay in those years, discovering they had blown a BIG chunk of their gaming-budget on STUFF THEY DIDN'T WANT. Most of us cannot afford to blow our gaming-budgets that way; I think BWP's BUYING concern is entirely valid. === My own OP is that the online worry and debate about what-is-canonical should always be pushed to the background vs. what a given table uses in-play; that there is now so MUCH canon you virtually MUST treat it as an a-la-carte menu rather than a "take it all home" shopping-basket. There is SO MUCH "canon" that de facto, you MUST leave most of it un-touched. Even if you have an Aldryami PC in the party, you aren't likely to include all of the Guide content and all of the Bestiary content, and any other still-canonical bits&bobs -- much of is is irrelevant to the one PC! And also, you may have some bit from prior / non-canonical source that the GM and/or the player(s) PREFER to the modern treatment; or your own House canon, never printed -- and doing ANY of that is the "RIGHT way" to play the game.
  14. I hope they will be willing (for those who bought the glitched dice) to replace them...? I wasn't one, but I know I'd want that. It doesn't sound like it should be too onerous on them: ship a glitch-die to them and they will ship a fixed one back. I hope they set that policy! <knock on wood> While you are undoubtedly correct, mathematically... I don't care for the solution: keeping the "Left Leg glitch" in mind during combat is one more issue, one i don't want to deal with. I'd use a generic d20 and the normal lookup table. Others' MMV. I'd be startled to see these hit market! As you note, an increasingly small number of uses. For readability-by-creature, I'd probably look to color-coding, printing the dice in a wide variety of colors. One other thought -- for the diehards -- what about a RQ3 missile hit-location die? I bet there'd be more call for that than for any particular non-humanoid die...
  15. g33k

    nuYGMV

    We.all know "YGMV" -- Your Glorantha May Vary. It seems that "canon" has become so vast (both broad and deep), and so oft-revised (via Greg or Guide or whatever) that our hoary old acronym needs a new meaning ... Your Glorantha Must Vary Between the previously-canonical stuff you don't want to change, Chaosium's new canon you don't know of, your group's Glorantha-in-play creating at-the-table-canon... variance (from published canon) seems virtually certain! Back In The Day, playing RQ2+CoP, a "canonical" game was easy and almost insvitable:. Canon was a few big elements, which everyone knew and played. People's table-canon didn't so much depart from canon as extend it to new places (indeed, authors' House Games became canon, fans became authors with House Games (that became canon) &c...). But these days? There is. SO. MUCH. CANON. Honestly, that's a.GOOD thing! Who wishes for no Guide? No new edition? Etc... But canon-worries online... Not so much, no. As ever: YGMV.
  16. Yah. Despite the undoubted Chaosium pref for all attention to be on the New Shiny (and a VERY attention-worthy Shiny RQG is, too!) a disambiguation Sticky would IMHO be useful ! And maybe someone could pick up that nice flowchart (apologies to whoever created it, for forgetting who you are! That was nice work!) showing BRP versions & flavors... I'd love to see it kept up-to-date!
  17. It is; or was, for those at GenCon. They airshipped several cases, I believe (and sold out there, I believe). We non-GenCon'ians must wait for the shipments noted above, (unless we have Triolini connections who might ... acquire ... copies for us).
  18. No; but given that the OP said "... now up to 6th" it's not clear if they want the TDM edition specifically, or the latest title bearing the "RQ," moniker, or what ...
  19. There is also the issue of HQ's simpler system being more amenable to being "eyeballed on the fly" from published-as-RQ rules, than vice versa... I'd still like to see them try a dual-stat supplement...
  20. Yeah, this. It usually takes me a day or two after a Con, and /I/ don't have to break down a big ol' booth after everyone else is done, etc...
  21. I do NOT adore.the mobile skin. I thought I had added this... But nooooo ....
  22. It was posted here on BRPCentral by user Dimbyd, IIRC, I don't have a copy. I didn't save the link, but the search shouldn't be too onerous.
  23. Also sometimes stuff changes... FrEx, Jeff mentioned that the Gods book jumped way ahead when, in a frenzy of creative inspiration from cult-writeups for earlier books, he moved straight into the other Cults, months ahead of schedule. So that one may have bumped up-schedule, while other(s) may have bumped down-schedule. Some freelancers turn in work needing minimal edits, far ahead of schedule. Others not so much. Etc Etc Etc. Crative stuff is hard to assembly-line.
  24. I saw a pretty big list of projects / plans / etc that Jason (iirc) gave out in a seminar at one of the earlier summer 'cons... @Dymbid was the poster iirc. That was only a couple of months ago, and was YEARS of publications. I doubt the overall shape or scope has changed much since then!
  25. <Drools harder> Though I admit surprise; I'd have though HQ (or trying the dual or even triple stat thing) would be worth a shot, particularly under Mr.Laws' war-banner... 😉
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