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Final Update: Jonstown Compendium Index - 2021


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  • Nick Brooke changed the title to Updated 26 August: Jonstown Compendium Index - 2021

Updated again, adding QAD: Pimper's Block by Drew Baker (2,000 pages of randomly pregenerated characters from every RQG homeland and occupation: 520 fully-detailed character sheets and another 2,600 short-form NPC grunts), and sadly removing the listing for Valley of Plenty: Shawn & Peggy Carpenter have decided not to finish the Jaldonkillers Saga, and have now removed the only published volume from sale.

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  • Nick Brooke changed the title to Updated 31 August: Jonstown Compendium Index - 2021

Updated again, adding The Bad Winds, another Monster of the Month from Austin Conrad. Monster stats, spirit cult, adventure seeds and a two-page myth: yours for $1.25 (or 21 cents per page).

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  • Nick Brooke changed the title to Updated 19 September: Jonstown Compendium Index - 2021

Updated again, to note three recent developments:

'Organized Play' is the category the ENNIES use for community content programmes like the Jonstown Compendium, Miskatonic Repository and Dungeon Masters Guild.

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  • Nick Brooke changed the title to Updated 23 September: Jonstown Compendium Index - 2021

Updated again with Jamie "Trotsky" Revell's Bearwalkers, an in-depth look at the Rathori of Fronela, including character creation and cult details for both RuneQuest and QuestWorlds. $4.00 for 25 pages.

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  • Nick Brooke changed the title to Updated 30 September: Jonstown Compendium Index - 2021

Updated again with Diana Probst's The Whirling Moon, a mini-adventure released via Austin Conrad's Monster of the Month series. $2.00 for 14 pages.

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  • Nick Brooke changed the title to Updated 2 October: Jonstown Compendium Index - 2021

Updated again with Black Spear, a Hero Wars saga for RuneQuest by Nick Brooke and Mike O'Connor. 181 pages for $19.95 in digital format (PDF).

“Know then, oh Prince, that in the Sea Season after the Battle of the Queens
was Colymar’s Black Spear sent forth to rouse Argrath from his slumbers.”

An epic saga of the Hero Wars, festooned with heroquests and deep Gloranthan weirdness. Probably the strangest thing I’ve ever written. Designed as a follow-up to The Duel at Dangerford, but it also works as a stand-alone mini-campaign. Canonically set in Sea Season 1627, with suggestions at the back of the book for changing things around. Illustrated lavishly by Mike O’Connor: 50+ pictures, one or two songs, some poetry, not many stat-blocks.

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  • Nick Brooke changed the title to Updated 10 October: Jonstown Compendium Index - 2021

Updated again, with two more scenarios (it's like waiting for busses, honestly it is! you wait all summer for a Jonstown Compendium scenario, and then three of them come along at once):

  • Korolstead: Secrets of the Smoking Ruin by John Lawson is a mega-dungeon complex massively expanding on locations presented in Chris Klug's The Smoking Ruin. $25.00 for 245 pages plus 44 VTT-quality maps.
  • Bad Day at Duck Rock by Peter Hart (gorgeously illustrated by Dario Corallo) is a mystery presenting players with several challenges, including lone NPCs and groups with their own agendas. $10.00 for 79 pages.

I've also added a selection of reviewers' comments re: Black Spear, and a link to Andrew Logan Montgomery's review:

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"This is some top-shelf, high-grade Gloranthan psychedelia. I simply cannot recommend it highly enough."

With eleven  ratings and seven rave reviews so far, my epic saga of the Hero Wars was the #1 bestselling title on DriveThruRPG at launch. Check it out?

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  • Nick Brooke changed the title to Updated 15 October: Jonstown Compendium Index - 2021
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  • Nick Brooke changed the title to Updated 28 October: Jonstown Compendium Index - 2021

Updated again - sixty updates so far this year! Two new titles:

  • Dario Corallo's Artpack #3 - The Seventeen Foes of Waha. 47 high-quality images to use at your table or include in your own Jonstown Compendium titles. As always with Dario's work, it'd be easy to use his clip-art to illustrate any book needing warriors, chaos broo, or other miscellaneous Gloranthan weirdness.
  • Austin Conrad's latest Monster of the Month: The Salt Man. A cursed Praxian creature, born in the Dead Place.

Please also note the permanent price-cut for Beer With Teeth's Stone & Bone, now half price (now $3.95, down from $7.95). I've listed every price reduction, sale and discount scheme I'm aware of on page 23 of the Index.

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  • Nick Brooke changed the title to Updated 31 October: Jonstown Compendium Index - 2021

Updated again, adding The God Skin Incident & Mad Prax: Beyond Sun Dome - Sandheart Volume Four, by Jonathan Webb and Michael O'Brien, illustrated by Jacob Webb, Mark Baldwin, Dario Corallo, Kris Herbert, Ludovic Chabant, David Dobyski and Nick Brooke. $11.95 for 109 pages (PDF)

In The God Skin Incident, a murder and robbery lead the Sandheart militia into a confrontation with their deadly nemeses. After the dust has settled they must quest for holy vengeance across the plains of Prax. The God Skin Incident is situated in Sun County and Prax and is expected to take between four and six sessions to complete

In Mad Prax, the Sandheart militia find themselves drawn into the midst of a great historical happening. Written by Michael O'Brien (author of Sun County) this adventure is based on the convention scenario Mad Prax: Beyond Sun Dome.

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  • Nick Brooke changed the title to Updated 6 November: Jonstown Compendium Index - 2021

Updated again, adding:

  • Dorastor Maps, by Anders Tönnberg - eight poster maps of the Land of Doom (Players, Game Master, Secrets & Political, each supplied in 5 mile / 8 km hex and hex-free versions)
  • Prax Pack #1, by Dario Corallo's Zenith Counters  - forty top-down virtual tabletop tokens and six battle-maps for the Five Great Tribes of Prax: Bison, Impala, High Llama, Sable and Morokanth (plus mounts/herd animals and three lost Agimori)
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  • Nick Brooke changed the title to Updated 16 November: Jonstown Compendium Index - 2021

Updated again, with Denjāfōdo no Kettō (デンジャーフォードの決闘), Ashinoha's superb Japanese translation of my Gold best-selling scenario The Duel at Dangerford.

  • If you bought the digital edition of my scenario in English, log in and check your Library on DriveThruRPG for some wonderful art goodies: a 16-page booklet of Dangerford Art by Hirotsugu Kaga, a ZIP archive of his high-resolution artwork to use in your own games (at the table or online), and Dangerford Deluxe - a revised layout for the scenario adding seven pages of new art.
  • If you bought the print edition, email me the receipt and I'll forward you the art booklet (only).
  • I have no plans at present to bring Dangerford Deluxe out in print.

Best-seller medals, reviews and ratings also generally refreshed. Also of note: to mark the release of The God Skin & Mad Prax (Sandheart Volume Four), Jonathan Webb has discounted the first three Sandheart books by $2.00 in every format, and Stone and Bone from Beer With Teeth (Diana Probst & Kristi Herbert) is now an Electrum best-seller: w00t!!

Finally, a request: if you've been meaning to add ratings or reviews for any Jonstown Compendium purchases, but never quite get round to it, please try to make your mark before the end of this month. Our community content programme's second birthday is coming up, and I have plans to celebrate it in style!

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  • Nick Brooke changed the title to Updated 22 November: Jonstown Compendium Index - 2021

Updated again, with Anaxial's Manifest by Jamie Revell: an eclectic bestiary expansion that adds 46 new creatures and spirits to RuneQuest. It stands alone, and does not rely on the author's previous Malkioni works. Animals include prehistoric megafauna of Pamaltela; monsters range from the Carmanian Griffin and Granite Rhino to the Storm Tigers and Sea Dragons of the distant East; embodied spirits include Dara Happan underworld guardians, physical manifestations of Uleria’s Love and the nötörïöus Bögglës.

Please remember to rate and review your favourite Jonstown Compendium purchases on DriveThruRPG ahead of our community content programme's second birthday...

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  • Nick Brooke changed the title to Updated 23 November: Jonstown Compendium Index - 2021

Updated again, adding details for the print edition of The God Skin & Mad Prax: Sandheart Volume Four by Jonathan Webb and Michael O'Brien (plus fixing a rogue page-break that got itself into the wrong place somehow).

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  • Nick Brooke changed the title to Updated 26 November: Jonstown Compendium Index - 2021

Updated again, with Burning Engines, November's Monster of the Month by Mason J. Street. Powerful Mostali constructs animated by fire elementals: yours for just $1.00.

The Thanksgiving Sale Black Friday/Cyber Monday sale runs over the weekend, with many titles at 20% off. And in other news The God Skin & Mad Prax: Sandheart Volume Four is now a Silver Best-Seller (over 100 copies sold): hurrah!

Oh, and I've discounted the JC Index 2021 to just $1.00 (and the 2020 edition to just $0.50) while the sale is live, if you want to know what's worth buying. Between them, they describe everything on the store, ranked by sales tier and customer ratings.

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  • Nick Brooke changed the title to Updated 27 November: Jonstown Compendium Index - 2021

It's the update you've been waiting for: Martin Helsdon's magisterial tome The Armies & Enemies of Dragon Pass is now available as a print-on-demand hardcover for $39.95, with colour covers and black & white interiors.

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  • Nick Brooke changed the title to Updated 28 November: Jonstown Compendium Index - 2021

A small update today, with a couple of new medals to celebrate:

Also, Six Seasons in Sartar by Andrew Logan Montgomery, the community content store's best-selling, highest-rated title, is currently on sale (PDF: $19.95 $14.95; premium hardcover print: $47.95 $37.95), and only two dozen or so sales short of its Platinum Best-Seller Medal (over 1,000 copies sold)!

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  • Nick Brooke changed the title to Updated 2 December: Jonstown Compendium Index - 2021

Updated again, with A Site to Die For by Benggt Wueggertz, Stefan Ringstrom & T(h)ed Strand. A party of adventurers sets out to build and defend a new shrine against their rivals. $1.00 for 31 pages (4 cents per page of content).

Also: Six Seasons in Sartar is now the Jonstown Compendium's first Platinum Best Seller (over 1,000 books sold)!

And there's a treat for Asterix the Gaul fans on p.50, thanks to the marvellous Dario Corallo...

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  • Nick Brooke changed the title to Updated 5 December: Jonstown Compendium Index - 2021

Updated again, with the illuminated edition of A History of Malkionism, by Nick Brooke & Katrin Dirim. My classic article introducing the mediaeval West of Glorantha for How the West was One players has been gloriously illuminated by Katrin Dirim. First published in 1994, much like the Abiding Book of the Jrusteli God Learners, the article’s text has remained pristine and unchanged from that day forth, despite the worst efforts of accursed heretics and revisionists.

The illuminations are completely new, and it was an absolute privilege and delight working with the brilliant Katrin Dirim to bring the history of Malkionism to light via the medium of gorgeous mediaeval artwork. 16 manuscript pictures depict key moments in Malkioni scripture and history, as well as three studies of the Western peoples: the ancient Brithini, maritime Waertagi and detestable Vadeli.

From the Ice Age to the God Learners, from the Serpent Kings of Seshneg to Arkat’s Dark Empire, gain new insights into Glorantha through the eyes of a visionary steeped in the artistic traditions of antiquity and the middle ages.

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  • Nick Brooke changed the title to Updated 12 December: Jonstown Compendium Index - 2021

Updated again, with the print edition of Simon Phipp's Secrets of HeroQuesting ($20, standard colour hardcover), and a new release from Dario Corallo: a set of printable cardboard stand-up counters for The Rainbow Mounds (€2.00 for 16 tokens).

There has also been a Copper bonus content drop for our art book A History of Malkionism: a dozen pages of emails, group chat transcripts, sketches and line art showing how the first four illustrations were created. I'll share similar notes for the next four pics (Prince Hrestol & The Serpent Kings) as soon as we hit Silver. If you want to see more art books from Katrin and me, please consider leaving ratings and reviews for this one at DriveThruRPG: if it can pay for itself, we'd both love to make more stuff like this for other parts of Glorantha!

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Just out: the Jonstown Compendium Catalogue - 2021 Edition. $7.50 in print (144-page colour paperback, 6x9 inches), or $2.50 PDF.

This book details every supplement published in the first two years of Chaosium's community content programme for RuneQuest and Glorantha. It combines the 2020 & 2021 versions of my Jonstown Compendium Index: a new layout presents every release up to the end of November 2021, divided into categories. Titles in the main categories are ranked by sales tier (best-seller medals) and customer ratings.

The seven categories used are RuneQuest (scenarios), Glorantha (sourcebooks), QuestWorlds, Monsters of the Month, Zenith Counters, Adventure Outlines and Everything Else. Detailed listings analyse content (pages split between scenario, stats, maps, etc.), price per page of content (excluding front matter, blank pages, etc.), and the intended adventurers, setting and complexity for each scenario.

Two “Where in the World?” maps show every product's location (if it can be pinned down). There are notes on when each scenario and campaign is set (by year and season, inc. all Chaosium RQG scenarios). Appendices include notes for creators, sales charts, and handy reference versions of the Jonstown Compendium Community Content Agreement, Content Guidelines and FAQ.

If you own last year's Jonstown Compendium Scenarios & Sourcebooks (2020) and this year's Jonstown Compendium Index (2021), read Chaosium's blog and pay attention to online resources, you will have all this information already. Unlike those products, this title won't be updated: it's a year-end snapshot (and a printed book). I plan to bring out a new, regularly updated Index starting in January 2022, with a new print Catalogue in 12 months' time if it seems worthwhile.

I will keep updating this year’s Index until 31 December, as always.

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