Aubrey the Malformed

On ‎12‎/‎2‎/‎2019 at 12:54 PM, Steve said:

There's plenty of content you can play with - all the RQ2 (Classic) material, for example. The RQ Classic reprints give you years' worth of playing material on their own.

At the Dragonmeet seminar last weekend, Jeff and Jason made it clear that there's absolutely tons of new stuff in the pipeline. But they're working on getting all the main rules and background stuff (e.g. GM Sourcebook, Cults of Glorantha and Red Book of Magic) in place before they un-stop the dam and let the flood forth.

That's a daft policy, quite frankly.  Playable scenarios are much more useful, and additional rules material can be incorporated (as they did in the scenarios from the 80s with write-ups of cults and so on in the back).  And because the Classic stuff is so old, a lot of people have played it already a long time ago - suggesting people play a 30 year old scenario while the developers fiddle with rules content (slowly) many may not use is bonkers.  I appreciate that RQ isn't like other games, what with the history and so on, but you still need scenarios. 

So is there any word on what might be next, and when?

Yeah, well, there's time.  Then there's Chaosium time.  It has been thus for decades.  More a feature than a glitch.

RQ scenarios in the past have pretty much all been sandbox in style.  They have also, by and large, been the main ways in which detailed setting material has been presented.  Without the scenarios, from an RQ perspective there wouldn't be much setting.  Nice histories of the Lunar Empire or detailed cult descriptions don't really cut much ice if you don't have somewhere to play a scenario, like Pavis or Sun Dome Temple or Snakepipe Hollow.   Most background setting material presented recently has been so high level and broadbrush as to be very hard to use, or not really focused on what you might need to build a scenario at all (Gloranthan Sourcebook, I'm looking at you).  I get some people love all that stuff and, to a point, so do I.  But I want to play RQ, not debate the finer points of Gloranthan mythology.  Personally, I'd like more than having to reread old supplements from the 1980s, which we all played decades ago anyway, I'd like some new stuff.  I'm also busy and don't have much time, so it would be nice if professional scenario writers could give me something to work with rather than having to do it myself, probably to a lower quality.  I get a little concerned sometimes that the ordinary punter who plays RPGs every couple of weeks with his mates (when our wives don't find something else for us to do) gets a little bit forgotten in the enthusiasm of the Glorantha scholars at Chaosium.  I'm not complaining, I'm loving that RQG has come out, RQ(2&3) was my favorite game in the 80s when RPGs were in their heyday....  But RQG scenarios are still thin on the ground, and in the end are the lifeblood of any system that either mean it gets played, or not.

Any idea when actual adventures will come out?  While stuff like GoG is great, an RPG stands or falls on its adventures.