svensson Posted March 1 Report Share Posted March 1 (edited) Cross post from yesterday. Chaosium announced a street date for the Gods of Glorantha SERIES of books! Here is the youtube announcement from yesterday: Edited March 1 by Nick Brooke 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smiorgan Posted March 1 Report Share Posted March 1 I much prefer the series format than the original twin set of huge books in a slipcase format. Much more user friendly at the gaming table and for people who are not GMs. And it gives us a nice stream of RQ releases to wait for. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RandomNumber Posted March 1 Report Share Posted March 1 I'm really looking forward to these and to the context it will provide for the following RQ books. I wonder though if we will have to wait for all ten Cults books to be released before some of the other books become available. In any case we can look forward to a steady stream of releases now. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smiorgan Posted March 1 Report Share Posted March 1 8 hours ago, RandomNumber said: I'm really looking forward to these and to the context it will provide for the following RQ books. I wonder though if we will have to wait for all ten Cults books to be released before some of the other books become available. In any case we can look forward to a steady stream of releases now. I hope not. I really hope that they will be interspersed with the other releases. It would make sense to have Sartar come out after the Lightbringers and the Earth Goddesses are out. And I really look forward to Sartar with that huge beautiful map! I should probably switch to Sartar my game by then... (At the moment I'm playing in Sun County and my players are a bunch of Solar (Yelmalio, Yelorna) and Lunar (Seven Mothers) cultists - so no luck with the cult books for them...). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff Posted March 1 Report Share Posted March 1 (edited) 23 minutes ago, smiorgan said: I hope not. I really hope that they will be interspersed with the other releases. It would make sense to have Sartar come out after the Lightbringers and the Earth Goddesses are out. And I really look forward to Sartar with that huge beautiful map! I should probably switch to Sartar my game by then... (At the moment I'm playing in Sun County and my players are a bunch of Solar (Yelmalio, Yelorna) and Lunar (Seven Mothers) cultists - so no luck with the cult books for them...). The release of Sartar and Dragon Pass and the rest are freed up by the release of Lightbringers, Earth, and Mythology - all which make those books easier to handle. Sartar and Dragon Pass (which already have all their art) free up Prax, Pavis, and Big Rubble. The Lunar, Solar, Darkness, Horned God, Sea, etc. books all are on their track and not in the same lane for those others. They open up the Dragon Pass Campaign, and others. In short, we have a metric ton of RQ that gets opened up by this. But Lightbringers and Earth are foundational for doing more with the Orlanthi. Edited March 1 by Jeff 19 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soccercalle Posted March 2 Report Share Posted March 2 20 hours ago, Jeff said: The release of Sartar and Dragon Pass and the rest are freed up by the release of Lightbringers, Earth, and Mythology - all which make those books easier to handle. Sartar and Dragon Pass (which already have all their art) free up Prax, Pavis, and Big Rubble. The Lunar, Solar, Darkness, Horned God, Sea, etc. books all are on their track and not in the same lane for those others. They open up the Dragon Pass Campaign, and others. In short, we have a metric ton of RQ that gets opened up by this. But Lightbringers and Earth are foundational for doing more with the Orlanthi. I really like this strategy. But I hope that you have "parallell tracks" and teams for layout and printing so that we dont have to wait for all the different cults book before the GM Guide, Sartar Book and Dragon Pass Book are released. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tnli Posted March 3 Report Share Posted March 3 On 3/1/2023 at 9:00 PM, Jeff said: The release of Sartar and Dragon Pass and the rest are freed up by the release of Lightbringers, Earth, and Mythology - all which make those books easier to handle. Sartar and Dragon Pass (which already have all their art) free up Prax, Pavis, and Big Rubble. The Lunar, Solar, Darkness, Horned God, Sea, etc. books all are on their track and not in the same lane for those others. They open up the Dragon Pass Campaign, and others. In short, we have a metric ton of RQ that gets opened up by this. But Lightbringers and Earth are foundational for doing more with the Orlanthi. So we might get to see more than just the announced books later this year or in 2024? What would be the Gloranthan equivalent to keeping one's fingers crossed? 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tnli Posted March 3 Report Share Posted March 3 On 3/1/2023 at 11:12 AM, smiorgan said: I much prefer the series format than the original twin set of huge books in a slipcase format. Much more user friendly at the gaming table and for people who are not GMs. And it gives us a nice stream of RQ releases to wait for. This is so true, The Guide is an awesome piece of art, but almost completely impossible to use unless you happen to have a proper reading desk. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Brooke Posted March 3 Report Share Posted March 3 2 hours ago, tnli said: What would be the Gloranthan equivalent to keeping one's fingers crossed? With a nod to Socrates' famous last words, can I suggest you might sacrifice a cock to Babeester Gor? 1 4 Quote Community Ambassador - Jonstown Compendium, Chaosium, Inc. Email: nick.brooke@chaosium.com for community content queriesJonstown Compendium ⧖ Facebook Ф Twitter † old website Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
g33k Posted March 5 Report Share Posted March 5 (edited) On 3/1/2023 at 11:00 AM, Jeff said: ... Sartar and Dragon Pass (which already have all their art) ... The topic of "Sartar" seems pretty clear. Is "Dragon Pass" then the rest of the DP region, glossing over Sartar in a few minimalistic pages with "for more details, see..." ? Are there other differentiators? Is each essentially a "regional guidebook" sort of resource? Edited March 5 by g33k Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Farrell Posted March 5 Report Share Posted March 5 (edited) 1 hour ago, g33k said: The topic of "Sartar" seems pretty clear. Is "Dragon Pass" then the rest of the DP region, glossing over Sartar in a few minimalistic pages with "for more details, see..." ? Are there other differentiators? Is each essentially a "regional guidebook" sort of resource? From what I know, which isn't everything, the Sartar book will (of course) look specifically at Sartar, and Boldhome in particular. I don't know how detailed it'll be, but I'm thinking along the lines of the treatments of Pavis in the past. It will include scenarios (I know this from things Andrew Logan Montgomery has said, as he worked on it) The Dragon Pass book is a gazeteer, a broad overview of the entire region. Probably no scenarios or any mechanical game info. There has been at least one Dragon Pass gazeteer published in the past (in the Heroquest era, I think), and though it may not be identical in structure to that, I think it will be along those lines. Edited March 5 by Jason Farrell Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RandomNumber Posted March 8 Report Share Posted March 8 On 3/6/2023 at 7:33 AM, Jason Farrell said: From what I know, which isn't everything, the Sartar book will (of course) look specifically at Sartar, and Boldhome in particular. I don't know how detailed it'll be, but I'm thinking along the lines of the treatments of Pavis in the past. It will include scenarios (I know this from things Andrew Logan Montgomery has said, as he worked on it) I believe I read somewhere a while back that it will have an alternative char gen approach. Let's hope it has the Sartar tribes map - I'm itching to get my hands on a high fidelity version of that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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