MOB Posted November 10, 2021 Share Posted November 10, 2021 (edited) – Magic, Myth, and Might in a Box! – Great news! The RuneQuest Starter Set is now out in release world-wide, available to order from all five Chaosium fulfilment warehouses: USA, EU, AUS, CAN and UK. USD$29.99 — Remember that you also get the PDF when purchasing the physical copy direct from Chaosium.com. The RuneQuest Starter Set contains everything you need to play an epic roleplaying game of gods, cults, magic, family, and fantasy! In RuneQuest, everyone uses spells and anyone can be a warrior. The gods provide powers to their mortal worshipers, and can intercede on their behalf. Each RuneQuest adventurer is unique, defined by their Runes, culture, and cult—all chosen by the player. The RuneQuest Starter Set also includes these free downloadable materials to enhance your play experience: Edited November 10, 2021 by MOB 4 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glassneedles Posted November 10, 2021 Share Posted November 10, 2021 IT IS MINE *maniacal laughter* 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cloud64 Posted November 10, 2021 Share Posted November 10, 2021 (edited) I'd buy if I could. When I try to pay, by whatever method, I get this msg, "Something has gone wrong! There was an error placing your order. Please contact us." Occurs on multiple devices, VPN on or off, suggesting it's a problem Chaosium end. I am logged into my Chaosium account at the time. UK customer. MacOS and iOS, Safari browser. Never had a problem before. Edit: Have contacted customer services and received response. Not sorted yet though, but am getting emails from Chaosium asking me to complete my order. Edited November 10, 2021 by Cloud64 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Urhizen Posted November 10, 2021 Share Posted November 10, 2021 1 hour ago, Cloud64 said: I'd buy if I could. When I try to pay, by whatever method, I get this msg, "Something has gone wrong! There was an error placing your order. Please contact us." Occurs on multiple devices, VPN on or off, suggesting it's a problem Chaosium end. I am logged into my Chaosium account at the time. UK customer. MacOS and iOS, Safari browser. Never had a problem before. Same here. But at the end when accept Paypal, my purchase is on stand by or pending. I've sent a mail to Chaosium but still don´t have an answer. Then I have the purchase on Paypal but I can´t proceed with my order U_U Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhilHibbs Posted November 10, 2021 Share Posted November 10, 2021 Huh, still no email yet, so much for signing up to be the first to know! 😜 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid a bod yn dwp Posted November 10, 2021 Share Posted November 10, 2021 (edited) Couldn’t resist! Wallet made for a last gasp use of the resistance table to resist purchase…the very reasonable price and U.K. postage already had a plus 60% in the starter sets favour. That was before the many other pluses due to outstanding contents. Wallet was crushed in the stampede 🤣 What a great set. Looking forward to receiving the physical and playing through the solo. Will have to get my GM hat on for this. Edited November 10, 2021 by Paid a bod yn dwp Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glassneedles Posted November 10, 2021 Share Posted November 10, 2021 2 hours ago, PhilHibbs said: Huh, still no email yet, so much for signing up to be the first to know! 😜 As someone who used to work at a company that provided a marketing email service (think MailChimp but no where near as good) there could be many many many reasons for not receiving a marketing email and only a small percentage of those would be because of something Chaosium did. Around 10 years ago when Black Friday started to be a thing over here we got massively caught out by demand on the system and emailed advertising a start of sale at 9am didn't go out for 2-3 days.... That was a fun mess to deal with let me tell you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amayeta Posted November 10, 2021 Share Posted November 10, 2021 Woke up an hour before the alarm and sat there wondering why I was awake.. Then remembered what day it was and sprang to the computer! Order went through with no issues via paypal and just received confirmation from BangPrinting! *happydance!!!* Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Urhizen Posted November 10, 2021 Share Posted November 10, 2021 3 hours ago, Urhizen said: Same here. But at the end when accept Paypal, my purchase is on stand by or pending. I've sent a mail to Chaosium but still don´t have an answer. Then I have the purchase on Paypal but I can´t proceed with my order U_U UPGRADE: All solved. Thank you Chaosium! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cloud64 Posted November 10, 2021 Share Posted November 10, 2021 (edited) 50 minutes ago, Urhizen said: UPGRADE: All solved. Thank you Chaosium! Still broken for me 😢 After initial, and prompt, Chaosium customer services response have heard nothing more. Edit: Hurrah! Finally managed to complete the order process. Not sure what changed, but something must've. Edited November 10, 2021 by Cloud64 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twofeet Posted November 10, 2021 Share Posted November 10, 2021 Congrats on a wonderful release! Does anyone know if/when this will be making its way to FLGS? Would love to buy it direct from Chaosium but shipping, even from the Canadian warehouse to a Canadian address, is super-expensive! 🙂 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill the barbarian Posted November 10, 2021 Share Posted November 10, 2021 (edited) And on that issue, can anyone tell me how the Brick and Mortar thang works? @MOB? My local is where I will be buying mine, so it will be needed info. Edited November 10, 2021 by Bill the barbarian Quote ... remember, with a TARDIS, one is never late for breakfast! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scotty Posted November 10, 2021 Share Posted November 10, 2021 39 minutes ago, Bill the barbarian said: And on that issue, can anyone tell me how the Brick and Mortar thang works? @MOB? My local is where I will be being mine, so it will be needed info. If your FLGS is a participant in Bits & Mortar, you get a download code from the shop. Otherwise direct them to https://www.bits-and-mortar.com and they can sign up there. We don't do anything except supply Bits and Mortar with the PDFs. The https://www.bits-and-mortar.com website gives you all the info you need if you are a shop, customer or publisher. There's even a directory to find participating stores. 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scornado Posted November 10, 2021 Share Posted November 10, 2021 I expect only 40% of the starter set to be useful for an established campaign or group but at that price its' worth it for that 40% so I bought it. The low price is a master-stroke. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndreJarosch Posted November 10, 2021 Share Posted November 10, 2021 (edited) On 11/10/2021 at 9:19 PM, Scornado said: I expect only 40% of the starter set to be useful for an established campaign or group but at that price its' worth it for that 40% so I bought it. The low price is a master-stroke. "Book 1: Rules", 64 pages, nothing new... but nice to have at the table as a reference document for the players. "Book 2: The World of Glorantha", 64 pages, 21 pages about Glorantha in general (nothing new), 39 pages new about Jonstown "Book 3: Soloquest", 60 pages, a Soloquest... but one that you as a GM, as well as each of your (new?) players can play multiple times "Book 4: Adventures", 84 pages, two new adventures in and around Jonstown + a reinterpretation (second visit) to a well known classic Map of Jonstown Map of Northern Sartar Maps of a cave complex reference sheets 14 pregens (7 new and 7 old friends: fully fleshed out NPCs for you as GM!) Just counting the four booklets and the 14 pregens: 300 pages total ca. 200 pages useful also for veteran GMs. 2/3 of a Stater Set useful for veteran players is VERY good! Especially with this price tag. Edited November 16, 2021 by AndreJarosch 7 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scornado Posted November 10, 2021 Share Posted November 10, 2021 Half the pre-gens were in the GM screen so not really new (and we're using some of them in our game already), but I am not really going to quibble over the actual percentage. The PDFs look good and I am sure when the box arrives it will be great. As a compleatist, I had to have it anyway. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Squaredeal Sten Posted November 10, 2021 Share Posted November 10, 2021 Ordered mine with no problem. And downloaded my PDFs. This will take weeks to digest. A tremendous lot of material. Admittedly the rules book is redundant to the RQiG book I already have but the package is great. Jonstown is relevsnt to current campaign so I am already happy. Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sam E. Posted November 11, 2021 Share Posted November 11, 2021 Man, just when I think I'm done with fantasy RPGs, I see something shiny like this. 🙂 I doubt I'll find anyone local to play this with me, but I'll probably pick it up just the same ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GMKen Posted November 11, 2021 Share Posted November 11, 2021 11 hours ago, twofeet said: Does anyone know if/when this will be making its way to FLGS? Put my order in at my FLGS this afternoon. Hopefully the distributors have them in hand already. Fingers crossed... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill the barbarian Posted November 11, 2021 Share Posted November 11, 2021 8 minutes ago, GMKen said: Put my order in at my FLGS this afternoon. Hopefully the distributors have them in hand already. Fingers crossed... Yep, now the wait begins! Quote ... remember, with a TARDIS, one is never late for breakfast! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Videopete Posted November 12, 2021 Share Posted November 12, 2021 Wasn't there supposed to be some non human pregen characters? I'm looking through the booklets in digital. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard S. Posted November 12, 2021 Share Posted November 12, 2021 (edited) 1 hour ago, Videopete said: Wasn't there supposed to be some non human pregen characters? I'm looking through the booklets in digital. Some of them have nonhuman companions, maybe that's what you were thinking of? I don't recall any talk of nonhuman pregens, though they would be pretty neat. Edited November 12, 2021 by Richard S. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndreJarosch Posted November 12, 2021 Share Posted November 12, 2021 1 hour ago, Videopete said: Wasn't there supposed to be some non human pregen characters? I'm looking through the booklets in digital. It was mentioned by Jason at the KRAKEN panel that there MIGHT be some nonhuman pregens in the near future (possible as PDF-only). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MOB Posted November 12, 2021 Author Share Posted November 12, 2021 The RUNEQUEST STARTER SET is now also on DriveThruRPG! Look what you get for USD$14.99—download over 300 pages of prime TTRPG content! Here's everything you need to play this famous game inc three scenarios and a solo adventure that teaches you the rules. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RandomNumber Posted November 12, 2021 Share Posted November 12, 2021 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. 😎 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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