MOB Posted October 21 Share Posted October 21 Coming in March 2024, a new cover for The Glorantha Sourcebook! This new cover by the award-winning Chaosium staff artist Loïc Muzy features iconic characters from Greg Stafford's world of Glorantha. This edition contains revised, updated, and expanded content drawn from a variety of long out-of-print and rare sources. Combined with the RuneQuest core rules, The Glorantha Sourcebook is a player’s next step to flesh out the setting for their RuneQuest games. There will also be a new leatherette version of The Glorantha Sourcebook out at the same time, released exclusively at Chaosium.com. 10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard S. Posted October 21 Share Posted October 21 (edited) Can we get a summary of what will be changed aside from the cover? Edited October 21 by Richard S. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid a bod yn dwp Posted October 21 Share Posted October 21 Holy Humakti Death Ducks! Love that cover. Wonderful design and great realisation of Gloranthan ancient world feely tropes…you have my sword 2 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndrewTBP Posted October 21 Share Posted October 21 Snazzy! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MOB Posted October 22 Author Share Posted October 22 13 hours ago, Richard S. said: Can we get a summary of what will be changed aside from the cover? - There you go. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard S. Posted October 22 Share Posted October 22 1 hour ago, MOB said: - There you go. Assuming you mean that nothing is being changed, what's this referring to then? 16 hours ago, MOB said: This edition contains revised, updated, and expanded content drawn from a variety of long out-of-print and rare sources. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Brooke Posted October 22 Share Posted October 22 6 minutes ago, Richard S. said: Assuming you mean that nothing is being changed, what's this referring to then? When the Sourcebook first came out, it contained revised, updated and expanded content drawn from a variety of long out-of-print and rare sources. This is still the case. 2 1 1 Quote Community Ambassador - Jonstown Compendium, Chaosium, Inc. Email: nick.brooke@chaosium.com for community content queries Jonstown Compendium ⧖ Facebook Ф Twitter † old website Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard S. Posted October 22 Share Posted October 22 9 minutes ago, Nick Brooke said: When the Sourcebook first came out, it contained revised, updated and expanded content drawn from a variety of long out-of-print and rare sources. This is still the case. Thank you. The use of "this edition" confused me. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Posted October 22 Share Posted October 22 According to Facebook there are corrections. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Brooke Posted October 22 Share Posted October 22 37 minutes ago, Steve said: According to Facebook there are corrections. Could you kindly quote the text from that linked post that makes you think there are corrections? Quote Community Ambassador - Jonstown Compendium, Chaosium, Inc. Email: nick.brooke@chaosium.com for community content queries Jonstown Compendium ⧖ Facebook Ф Twitter † old website Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Brooke Posted October 22 Share Posted October 22 Ah, maybe you linked to the wrong post. I found this elsewhere: 2 Quote Community Ambassador - Jonstown Compendium, Chaosium, Inc. Email: nick.brooke@chaosium.com for community content queries Jonstown Compendium ⧖ Facebook Ф Twitter † old website Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Runeblogger Posted October 22 Share Posted October 22 Some new interior art? 🤩 Quote Read my Runeblog about RuneQuest and Glorantha at: http://elruneblog.blogspot.com.es/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kalidor Posted October 22 Share Posted October 22 What about those of us with the previous pdf? Will It be updated? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MOB Posted October 22 Author Share Posted October 22 3 hours ago, kalidor said: What about those of us with the previous pdf? Will It be updated? No. This is a new edition. If you want it you'll have to buy it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Brooke Posted October 22 Share Posted October 22 5 hours ago, Richard S. said: Thank you. The use of "this edition" confused me. I agree: it might have been clearer to write “The Glorantha Sourcebook contains…”rather than “This edition contains…” Quote Community Ambassador - Jonstown Compendium, Chaosium, Inc. Email: nick.brooke@chaosium.com for community content queries Jonstown Compendium ⧖ Facebook Ф Twitter † old website Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Posted October 22 Share Posted October 22 23 hours ago, Richard S. said: Can we get a summary of what will be changed aside from the cover? 10 hours ago, MOB said: - There you go. 4 hours ago, MOB said: No. This is a new edition. If you want it you'll have to buy it. A new edition, but with no new content apart from the cover? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joerg Posted October 22 Share Posted October 22 (edited) 5 minutes ago, Steve said: new edition, but with no new content apart from the cover? And new interior artwork if I understand the thread above correctly. Possibly with captions leading to new text. Whether you consider art as content is up to you, but given Chaosium's recent track record you probably should. Edited October 22 by Joerg 2 Quote Telling how it is excessive verbis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard S. Posted October 22 Share Posted October 22 I think I'll get the new cover to unify the look of my bookshelf, then pass the original off to an unsuspecting friend 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndreJarosch Posted October 22 Share Posted October 22 1 hour ago, Richard S. said: I think I'll get the new cover to unify the look of my bookshelf, then pass the original off to an unsuspecting friend I will get the new version and move the old one to the HeroQuest shelf (the cover art its there much better). 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid a bod yn dwp Posted October 22 Share Posted October 22 3 hours ago, Joerg said: And new interior artwork if I understand the thread above correctly. Possibly with captions leading to new text. Whether you consider art as content is up to you, but given Chaosium's recent track record you probably should. Yes new interior art - if it’s of similar quality and realisation to the new cover would persuade me to happily buy the book again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cloud64 Posted October 22 Share Posted October 22 If there's no change in written content, I shall wait for the new artwork to appear in the oversize coffee-table collection of all the fantastic art in the various RQG books. C'mon, gotta be on the cards in a few years time – this quality of illustration deserves a large format that will really do it justice 🙂 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MOB Posted October 22 Author Share Posted October 22 7 hours ago, Steve said: A new edition, but with no new content apart from the cover? Yes, that is correct. The new edition has corrected some typos and errors from the original, non-RuneQuest branded edition, and has several new pieces of interior art, but is otherwise the same content. 4 1 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid a bod yn dwp Posted October 23 Share Posted October 23 14 hours ago, Cloud64 said: If there's no change in written content, I shall wait for the new artwork to appear in the oversize coffee-table collection of all the fantastic art in the various RQG books. C'mon, gotta be on the cards in a few years time – this quality of illustration deserves a large format that will really do it justice 🙂 I think there’s a strong argument for doing a new edition of the Guide To Glorantha utilising the new art, maybe a couple of years down the line when there’s a bigger/wider portfolio to draw on. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
g33k Posted October 24 Share Posted October 24 On 10/23/2023 at 4:08 AM, Paid a bod yn dwp said: I think there’s a strong argument for doing a new edition of the Guide To Glorantha utilising the new art, maybe a couple of years down the line when there’s a bigger/wider portfolio to draw on. There is a *huge* amount of really top-tier art already in the Guide! The new art is undeniably good. But I don't see that it's really an improvement. I think there are a couple of very-minor textual tweaks they'd like to do, but nothing that (IMO) really justifies a new edition. IIRC, Chaosium has (informally) speculated about a reprint / new edition. They have indicated that such a project would likely move to 4 standard-sized volumes, rather than 2 oversized. 2 Quote C'es ne pas un .sig Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid a bod yn dwp Posted October 25 Share Posted October 25 12 hours ago, g33k said: The new art is undeniably good. But I don't see that it's really an improvement. I’m not necessarily disputing the quality of art work in the guide, but the realisation of Gloranthan tropes is clearer and more accessible with the current art direction throughout the RuneQuest line imo. Overall the art direction is becoming fine tuned and better focused to my mind than it was when the guide was produced ( I still love the red goddess art in the guide though) …though of course take that with a subjective pinch of salt YGMV and all that. I just find the approach of the newer RQ artists hits the right notes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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