Akhôrahil 2,346 Posted January 15 Report Share Posted January 15 Assuming it's publicly available. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Jeff 6,827 Posted January 15 Report Share Posted January 15 14 minutes ago, Akhôrahil said: Assuming it's publicly available. It isn't. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
soltakss 5,065 Posted January 15 Report Share Posted January 15 1 hour ago, Akhôrahil said: Assuming it's publicly available. In the super secret special insider club, as has always been the case at Chaosium. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
DreadDomain 382 Posted January 16 Report Share Posted January 16 Can I ask what we are talking about? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
John Biles 426 Posted January 16 Report Share Posted January 16 This now makes me think about the idea of using Over the Edge 2E to do a Glorantha game, though it would work better for lower-powered people. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Nick Brooke 1,967 Posted January 16 Report Share Posted January 16 3 hours ago, DreadDomain said: Can I ask what we are talking about? Eight pages on running rules-light Gloranthan games, which John Wick shared with anyone who turned up to last week's ImpromptuCon. 2 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
DreadDomain 382 Posted January 16 Report Share Posted January 16 4 hours ago, Nick Brooke said: Eight pages on running rules-light Gloranthan games, which John Wick shared with anyone who turned up to last week's ImpromptuCon. Ah cool! Thanks for the answer. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Jeff 6,827 Posted January 16 Report Share Posted January 16 4 hours ago, Nick Brooke said: Eight pages on running rules-light Gloranthan games, which John Wick shared with anyone who turned up to last week's ImpromptuCon. Which is how you apparently get to be in the "Super Secret Insider Club" - show up to an event that someone promoted. 2 4 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Nel 87 Posted January 16 Report Share Posted January 16 Should we guess John Wick's Super Simple Game is something alike Michael O'Brien's Maximum Game Fun? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Nick Brooke 1,967 Posted January 16 Report Share Posted January 16 8 hours ago, Jeff said: Which is how you apparently get to be in the "Super Secret Insider Club" - show up to an event that someone promoted. If we've learned anything by Brexiting, it's that the general public are the real elitists. (Those assholes!) Quote Link to post Share on other sites
d(sqrt(-1)) 71 Posted January 16 Report Share Posted January 16 (edited) 15 hours ago, Nick Brooke said: Eight pages on running rules-light Gloranthan games, which John Wick shared with anyone who turned up to last week's ImpromptuCon. Would have been nice to know about it in advance though and I would have turned up. From what I can tell it was promoted on Facebook? Or did I miss a mention here? Edited January 16 by d(sqrt(-1)) Quote Link to post Share on other sites
aumshantih 79 Posted January 17 Report Share Posted January 17 That's a real shame about it not being more freely available. I'd love to see other rules systems for Glorantha, and John Wick has written some great ones over the years. 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Rick Meints 3,091 Posted January 17 Report Share Posted January 17 "Impromptu con" was something thought up on Tuesday and launched on the following weekend. It was mainly talked about on Facebook. It was an event on Discord, and many of the events were thought up only a few days prior. I only got my two events added to the con the day before it went live on Saturday. The event was free. We didn't promote it heavily anywhere. We did it because it was fun, and it took very little time to organize and run. We'll probably do another one in a month or so. NOTE: John wrote up his "super simple game" very recently. It's not like he has vowed to never let it see the light of day again. It's an incredibly rules light storytelling game. 5 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Beoferret 88 Posted January 18 Report Share Posted January 18 12 hours ago, Rick Meints said: "Impromptu con" was something thought up on Tuesday and launched on the following weekend. It was mainly talked about on Facebook. It was an event on Discord, and many of the events were thought up only a few days prior. I only got my two events added to the con the day before it went live on Saturday. The event was free. We didn't promote it heavily anywhere. We did it because it was fun, and it took very little time to organize and run. We'll probably do another one in a month or so. NOTE: John wrote up his "super simple game" very recently. It's not like he has vowed to never let it see the light of day again. It's an incredibly rules light storytelling game. I'm impressed that it went as well as it did with so little lead-up (from what I've heard.) Wish I could have made it! As for John's SSG, I was under the impression that it was just a really basic and quick intro to Glorantha and RQG - which I'd love to see (my own intro document is ... um.... not very brief. Ugh.) Didn't realize it was it's own game. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Akhôrahil 2,346 Posted January 18 Author Report Share Posted January 18 7 hours ago, Beoferret said: I'm impressed that it went as well as it did with so little lead-up (from what I've heard.) Wish I could have made it! As for John's SSG, I was under the impression that it was just a really basic and quick intro to Glorantha and RQG - which I'd love to see (my own intro document is ... um.... not very brief. Ugh.) Didn't realize it was it's own game. From what I gathered, it’s its own game, driven by Rune ratings and much more narrative than RQ. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Rick Meints 3,091 Posted January 18 Report Share Posted January 18 13 hours ago, Beoferret said: I'm impressed that it went as well as it did with so little lead-up (from what I've heard.) Wish I could have made it! As for John's SSG, I was under the impression that it was just a really basic and quick intro to Glorantha and RQG - which I'd love to see (my own intro document is ... um.... not very brief. Ugh.) Didn't realize it was it's own game. While it is an intro to Glorantha in that it is targeted at beginners, it wasn't meant to be an intro to RQG. The clue is in the title. It's definitely a storytelling game that is very rules light. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Ian Absentia 1,063 Posted January 18 Report Share Posted January 18 On 1/16/2021 at 3:21 AM, Jeff said: ...show up to an event that someone promoted. We can understand the disappointment among those who missed out on the "impromptu" notice, though, yes? !i! 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bill the barbarian 2,067 Posted January 18 Report Share Posted January 18 18 minutes ago, Ian Absentia said: We can understand the disappointment among those who missed out on the "impromptu" notice, though, yes? This is so Ian, thanks, @Joergfor the shout out and a very helpful assist from a Chaosium Staffer to get one more friend in. Sorry to those who missed this nice gesture, I do not think there was any maliciousness in not having all attend. I believer Rick said they were flying by the seat of their pants and running with an untested idea. But the response has been good and folk are interested. Hopefully the powers that be will look over all the and decide to run another! Cheers 3 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Rick Meints 3,091 Posted January 19 Report Share Posted January 19 We've already decided we're going to do more "impromptu cons", although we don't know how often they will be. We think at least a few of them a year is very possible, even possibly one every few months. We'll see how it goes. Not to sound funny, but Covid has freed up a lot of our weekends since all in-person cons have been cancelled. Yes, we kind of made it up as we went along, and we hadn't done much of this sort of event on Discord before. Fortunately, most of what we tried worked pretty well. Our basic principles for future events like it are to keep them simple, keep them free, and to keep the schedule short. In many ways, the more complex and structured they become, the fewer and further between they are likely to be. One thing that I'd like to point out is that while we set up this last impromptu event, there are few to no barriers for other groups of people doing likewise. It's not like we used our own proprietary platform to run the event. Discord is free to all. Note that we can't commit any of the Chaosium team to attending such events, as that's for each of them to decide. That said there's no reason why others can't whip up an event and invite a few Chaosium people to attend. I'd happily attend a "Chaosium Collectors" event for a few hours on Discord if I was invited and it fit my schedule, especially my evening or weekend schedule. 3 6 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bill the barbarian 2,067 Posted January 19 Report Share Posted January 19 Thank you! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
AndreasDavour 20 Posted January 22 Report Share Posted January 22 I strongly suggest to Chaosium to not only prompt events, impromptu or not, on the morally corrupt Facebook platform. As an aside I can mention that John mentioned the event to all his patrons on Patreon. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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