Nick Brooke Posted February 17 Share Posted February 17 (edited) Here is the Jonstown Compendium Index 2024: an index to the new RuneQuest & Glorantha scenarios and sourcebooks (and sundry other releases) available from Chaosium's Jonstown Compendium community content web store on DriveThruRPG. The index includes full details for every product released after 1 October 2023: for details of earlier releases, see my Jonstown Compendium Catalogue 2023. Detailed listings analyse content (pages split between scenario, stats, maps, etc.), characters, settings, ratings and price per page of content for each major release. Releases are categorised as RuneQuest Scenarios, Gloranthan Sourcebooks and Shorter Releases (including maps, artwork and random stuff). Three Where in the World? maps show every scenario, sourcebook and map's location. There are notes on when each scenarios and campaign is set (by year and season, inc. Chaosium RQG scenarios), and a best-seller chart at the back. The index will be regularly updated following major releases in 2024. All updates in 2024 are free; the price of the index may increase each quarter as new content grows, so don't wait too long to get on board! If you bought it earlier, get the current version of the index from your Library (top right menu) or from this product page while you're logged in to DriveThruRPG. Edited August 16 by Nick Brooke Fifteenth update: 16 August 2024 8 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...
Nick Brooke Posted February 17 Author Share Posted February 17 (edited) The major releases so far this year: The Tower of the Elder Sorcerer, by David Millians: an abandoned sorcerer’s tower for adventurers to investigate and plunder. As well as the somewhat discombobulated surviving inhabitants of the tower, this adventure includes statblocks for two rival adventuring parties plus a host of suggested political complications that could follow any successful incursion. 70 pages for $5.00 (PDF). RPG Writer Workshop RuneQuest Adventure Collection, by various authors: a print edition of six scenarios by 2022 graduates of the Storytelling Collective's "Write Your First Adventure" course. Contains The White Upon the Hills, by Sacha Gauthier and Reece Dyer; Died in the Wool, by Braeden Harpool; A Lamp for Esrola, by Sven Lugar; The Indagos Bull, by Rob Marcus; The Lottery, by Robert Stoll; and An Orlanthi Wedding, by Ian Straus. 124 pages for $19.95 (standard softcover). Vrok Eye Views, Volume I, by Roy Duffy: seven high-quality maps of New Pavis locations, designed for use on Virtual Tabletops: Gimpy’s Tavern (ground floor, upper floor, basement and “Vrok’s Eye View”), Geo’s (basement and ground floor), and Bob’s Bison Burgers (inc. Mostali meat-grinding contraption). Previously published in New Pavis: City on the Edge of Forever (Pavis & Big Rubble Companion, volume 1), this collection includes high-resolution PNG downloads of every map. Future volumes will include settlements in the Big Rubble and along the River of Cradles. 7 maps for $9.95 (PDF and PNG). A Glimpse of Pamaltela: Exploring Tarien & Hornilio, by Paul Baker: a campaign setting for adventures set among the Doraddi people of Tarien, on Glorantha’s distant southern continent of Pamaltela. As usual with Paul Baker’s books there’s a grab-bag of useful stuff: adventurer creation, short-form cult writeups for an entire pantheon, a detailed home setting (the lineages of the Sunset River tribe), NPCs, a bestiary, two scenarios, what my aunt and uncle told me, and even a short soloquest at the back. 289 pages for $22.00 (PDF). Visions of Myth, by Martin Helsdon and Katrin Dirim: a beautiful artbook collecting most of Katrin Dirim’s illustrations for Martin Helsdon’s book Ships & Shores of Southern Genertela: each picture is accompanied by new descriptive text pointing out details and symbolism that would otherwise go over our heads. Due to a bug in the new DriveThruRPG website, you might not have seen this print-only product in the store: don't miss out, it's incredibly lovely! (The digital edition is bundled as free bonus content with Ships & Shores). 52 pages for $19.95 (premium softcover) or $24.95 (premium hardcover). Edited February 17 by Nick Brooke 3 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 February 19 Author Share Posted February 19 (edited) Updated today with a new release: Holiday Dorastor: Risklands, by Simon Phipp & Anders Tönnberg. The latest Holiday Dorastor release massively expands and reimagines the Risklands campaign setting introduced in Dorastor: Land of Doom (RQ3, 1993). As the authors explain, “Talastar is a buffer region between the Lunar Empire and Dorastor, the Kingdom of Bilini is a buffer region between Talastar and Dorastor, and Riskland is a buffer region between Bilini and Dorastor.” The Red Emperor has generously allowed his enemies to resettle this borderland region, free from imperial oversight, and folks from many homelands have availed themselves of the opportunity. The highlights of the book are the exploration of factions and tensions among the Renekot clan, 63 pages of detailed personalities (each with RuneQuest stats and an illustration by Dario Corallo), and 77 pages of scenario outlines, one-page episode seeds and campaign suggestions. Two further campaign expansions are teased: Foulvale and Hahlgrim’s War: one of the last scenarios in Risklands, Exodus, lays the groundwork for the latter. 203 pages for $20.00 (PDF). Edited February 19 by Nick Brooke 3 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 February 23 Author Share Posted February 23 Updated again: Treasures of Glorantha, Volume Two: Relics of the Second Age, by Austin Conrad & Friends. A second collection of plunder for RuneQuest: Roleplaying in Glorantha. All of these treasures originated in the fabled Second Age, being creations of the sorcerous Middle Sea Empire, the draconic Empire of the Wyrms Friends, or stranger powers yet: a handful even come from distant Pamaltela. An opening chapter has rules allowing any adventurer to swear mighty vows and gain powerful boons, effectively creating their own gifts and geases or heroquest rewards. After that are thirty new magic items, each described using the classic Plunder format. Every item is woven into Gloranthan myth and history: many are unique (e.g. Alakoring’s sword Dragonbreaker; Tolat’s Red Sword of Victory), some are more common (potions of Liquid Hate, brewed from distilled tears; Mythographic Wheels, running permutations of mythology as they spin), others can vary in power (did you merely inhale the breath of a True Dragon, or the greater Inner Breath of Arangorf?), and most bring as many potential complications as advantages to their users. Reading this collection provides many valuable insights into the wonders of the lost Second Age, the abuses of the God Learners and the perils of Draconic self-mutilation. The book is beautifully illustrated throughout, comparable to Chaosium’s own publications; one picture of the Machine God Zistor is a work in progress sketch, and I can’t wait to see it finished! 71 pages for $19.95 (PDF). 1 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...
Nick Brooke Posted March 15 Author Share Posted March 15 (edited) Updated again with news of two new print releases: Harald Smith’s Nochet: Adventurer’s Guide and Ian Thomson’s Pavis & Big Rubble Companion, Volume 4: The Good, the Bad and the Rowdy. Plus a bunch of other recent stuff, inc. Vrok Eye Views 2, Skeletons, The Bully Bird and more. The best-seller charts at the back have been updated to cover the last three months’ sales figures, from 16 December 2023 to 15 March 2024. Edited March 15 by Nick Brooke 3 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 March 17 Author Share Posted March 17 Updated again: Boldhome Blues: The Scripts of Preston Shrader, by Roy Duffy. The unproduced script of a 1989 adaptation by hack author Preston Shrader of the rediscovered Greek tragedy Boldhome (which bears a remarkable similarity to a RuneQuest scenario: go figure!). Name-dropping asides throughout the supporting material give new insights into the history of 20th century dramas (theatrical, filmed and televisual) inspired by Gloranthan sources found in the Vatican Apostolic Archive and elsewhere. The original stage play concerns a reunion and doomed romance between two members of the Orlanthi resistance; this adaptation is a police procedural focusing instead on the bungling Boldhome City Guard. The critics say: "Makes Six Seasons in Sartar look like an epic." (70 pages for $5.95) 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...
Nick Brooke Posted April 1 Author Share Posted April 1 Updated again: Draconic Enlightenment, by Leon Kirshtein and Simon Phipp. A grab-bag of suggestions for running Draconic Enlightenment as an alternative version of Nysalor Illumination, plus new plunder items (dragonewt eggs, jade dreamstones) and bestiary entries (cursed serpents, pseudo dragons), followed by a lengthy recap of dragonewt personalities and magic, and three scenario outlines (Serpent’s Schemes, Shipwrecked, Rituals of Cleansing). (32 pages for $4.00) Lost & Found, by Paul Davies. A collection of Plunder! items in the classic format, several charmingly quirky, and most including adventure seeds suggesting how a game master could use them in their campaign. There are seven small illustrations plus a scrappy map (unlabelled) and some misc. scribbles. (28 pages for $11.37 - unusually, this product is priced in UK pounds (£9.00), and the stated price may wobble as the exchange rate changes) Best-seller charts have been updated to show the best-selling products in both Q4 2023 and Q1 2024, as well as details for the last three months. 3 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...
Nick Brooke Posted April 8 Author Share Posted April 8 (edited) Updated again: An Unofficial Buyer's Guide to RuneQuest & Glorantha, by Brian Duguid. Designed to plug the gap between Rick’s Meints Index to Glorantha III and my own Jonstown Compendium Catalogue, Brian Duguid’s Buyer’s Guide details all the material available for RuneQuest and Glorantha that’s still available from its publishers or manufacturers, including obscure magazines (and indexes), history books, miniatures, dice, coins, print-on-demand merch and online tools. The Buyer’s Guide is lavishly illustrated throughout, festooned with hyperlinks, and comes bundled with discount vouchers for Brian’s earlier works (The Children of Hykim and The Voralans), saving you twice the cost of purchase. Finally, if the Buyer’s Guide sells well, the author says he plans to keep updating it throughout 2024. Welcome to the treadmill, Brian! (61 pages for $2.49) [Japanese] Money Tree Thrives Again, by Steve Perrin, Greg Stafford & Ken Rolston, translated by Ashinoha. By special agreement with Chaosium, a Japanese translation of RQ3’s starter scenario The Money Tree set in Glorantha has been published via the community content programme. (The Jonstown Compendium’s launch title Yozarian’s Bandit Ducks, which is a sequel of sorts, already existed in Japanese translation, and Frog Games’ new Japanese edition of RuneQuest deserves our support.) Even if you don’t read Japanese, this translation includes gorgeous manga-style artwork by professional illustrator Akitoki Satou depicting RQG pregens Vasana & Co. (on the cover and one internal full-page piece), plus setting art from Hirotsugu Kaga of Clark & Co. (whose work was previously seen in The Duel at Dangerford). (30 pages for $3.30) Edited April 8 by Nick Brooke 2 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...
Nick Brooke Posted April 24 Author Share Posted April 24 Updated again: A Rough Guide to Boldhome, by David Hall, Jeff Richard, Greg Stafford and Friends. The sourcebook for 1992’s freeform live action role-playing game Home of the Bold, reissued to support its Chaosium Con 2024 “Director’s Cut.” As with A Rough Guide to Glamour, the original 28-page player booklet (which contained Greg Stafford’s description of the city and recent Sartarite history: the Boldhome Documents) has been massively enhanced, with glorious new full-colour artwork and maps, fiction, a songbook, plus 19 pages of preview material from Chaosium’s forthcoming Sartar Book, making this an essential resource for any RuneQuest campaign set in Sartar. (81 pages for $9.95 in PDF or $15.95 standard colour softcover print-on-demand) Collector’s Note: two items from previous editions are not in this version: Dan Barker’s black and white cover art, and the short Rough Guide article by David Hall & Kevin Jacklin. Yurek Chodak’s one-page map of Dragon Pass has been replaced with a two-page map detailing Dragon Pass & Prax by Colin Driver, the cartographer of the Guide to Glorantha and Argan Argar Atlas, who also provides new maps of Genertela and the Tribes of Sartar. Walter Moore’s view of Boldhome, map of Boldhome and map of Geo’s Inns have been colourised, and the city description is revised and expanded. The 81-page book contains (inter alia) 26 pages by Greg Stafford (the Boldhome Documents, etc.), 18 pages by Jeff Richard (Sartar Book previews), and 7 pages of front matter. 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...
Nick Brooke Posted May 1 Author Share Posted May 1 Updated again: Holiday Dorastor: Bugswarm Swamp, by Simon Phipp & Leon Kirshtein. This unexpected Holiday Dorastor release details the horrible insect-infested swamp of the Foulvale, not far enough upriver from Densdam and the Risklands settlements. The swamp’s inhabitants include Voralan black elves, insectile Broo, the Bugland Clan of trolls and innumerable insects, some of them intelligent. After the usual bestiary, short-form cults and plunder entries, six short scenarios give adventurers a range of bad reasons to venture into one of the worst places in Dorastor: The Last Meal, Bug Hunt, Caravan Stop, A Swarm of Flies, What Lays Below and Bug Wars. (64 pages for $8.00) 4 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 May 24 Author Share Posted May 24 (edited) Updated again: Sironomandidi (Hero Wars in the East Isles, Vol. 4), by Hannu Rytövuori, David Cake, Nils Weinander & Vesa Lehtinen. A sandbox setting for the Hero Wars in the East Isles campaign, detailing the large island of Sironomandidi, famous for its cave cities and rival factions of humans and Elder Races. Like Griffin Mountain, the book introduces an exotic setting providing everything a game master needs to run an extended campaign here, with extensive rumour tables and encounter charts (for the Korolan Islands as well as Sironomandidi) and dozens of pages of more-or-less fleshed-out adventure ideas. Every NPC encounter has tips that could set up a session or more of play. The book is integrated with previous volumes in the series, cross-referencing each NPC’s previous appearances and statblocks. If you’ve followed the Hero Wars in the East Isles campaign so far, you won’t want to miss this latest installment, which also serves as a great model for creating a character-led sandbox. It’s a remarkable achievement! (174 pages for $15.00) The Gate of Dusk, by Diana Probst. A Beer With Teeth scenario about an attempt to become the next king of the Locaem tribe (see Pegasus Plateau) by passing a Crown Test. The scenario efficiently sets the scene (providing adventure hooks for a variety of groups), describes the clan chieftains and rival contenders, and sets up a clash at an ancient holy ground. There are exotic participants, interesting political ramifications and the promise of sequels to come. The scenario includes large-format battle-maps and stand-up tokens for the NPCs and opponents, and has extensive notes on scaling and tactics the gamemaster can use when staging the encounter. A particularly tasty bonus is a folder containing nine 3D-rendered views of the titular Gate from a variety of angles. The Gate of Dusk is separately available in VTT format inc. tokens; the Roll20 conversion was assisted by John Samuel & Taylor Lehew. (42 pages for $8.00) Ships & Shores of Southern Genertela by Martin Helsdon is now available in print-on-demand hardcover: $59.95 standard colour or $94.95 premium colour. The book is lavishly illustrated throughout by Katrin Dirim, Mark Smylie and other artists: standard colour is perfectly serviceable, while premium colour is as good as it gets. You pays your money and you takes your choice. (396 pages) Edited May 24 by Nick Brooke 4 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...
Nick Brooke Posted June 4 Author Share Posted June 4 (edited) Updated again: Strangers in Prax Companion, by Ian Thomson & Friends. This Pavis & Big Rubble Companion special updates the RQ3 adventure collection Strangers in Prax for RuneQuest: Roleplaying in Glorantha. There are tweaks and expansions to the strangers’ statblocks, notes on adapting the overpowered sorcerers from the original book to use the new Sorcery rules, deckplans for Moonboats, statblocks for supporting cast members, a new map of Corflu, plus three new scenarios set in the Big Rubble – The Horror of Phang Rock, The Ever-Burning Torches and The One-Day House – one featuring each group of strangers! You will need a copy of Strangers in Prax to make full use of this supplement, as it does not reproduce the strangers’ statblocks or the original scenarios. (180 pages for $15.00) Skull Ruins: Tusk Riders Need Blood! by Ricardo Shankland, with art by Dario Corallo. An escort quest: the Colymar Queen wants you to take her despicable half-troll ally to Skull Ruins to perform a bloody sacrificial ritual so he can control his unruly war-pig. Unsurprisingly, things get more complicated. This well-constructed adventure builds deep Gloranthan lore into entertaining player-facing challenges. The appendices expand on Tusk Brothers (were-piggies!) and include a full cult writeup for Saw-tooth Korvan’s meat-eating Aldryami renegades, in case you thought allying with Tusk Riders wasn’t bad enough. Things were better under the Lunar Empire, I’m just saying... (76 pages for $17.95) Vrok Eye Views, Volume 3: Settlements of the Zola Fel Valley, by Roy Duffy. Six high-quality maps of settlements in Pavis County, Sun County, the Grantlands and the Delta, designed for use on Virtual Tabletops: Old Fort and Garhound in Pavis County, the Yard in Sun County, Ronegarth, Corflu Island and Corflu Town & Docks. Previously published in Pavis County: Secrets of the Borderlands (Pavis & Big Rubble Companion, volume 3), this collection includes high-resolution PNG downloads of every map. (6 maps for $9.95) Edited June 5 by Nick Brooke 5 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...
Nick Brooke Posted June 15 Author Share Posted June 15 Updated again: minor housekeeping (thanks, Philip!), photos of print-on-demand Jonstown Compendium books on sale this month at UK Games Expo and Chaosium Con Australia, top twenty sellers for the last three months, plus new collections of random statblocks for Wild Beasts and Exotic Mounts. 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...
Nick Brooke Posted June 19 Author Share Posted June 19 Updated again: Back to Balazar, by Jon Hunter, Barry Blatt & Frank Montellano: This ambitious book refreshes the RuneQuest Classic Griffin Mountain for campaigns set in 1625 using the RuneQuest: Roleplaying in Glorantha rules. It includes extensive new details about life in the neolithic Balazaring hunter clans, including adventurer creation (with brief Family History) and several example clans with suggested campaign arcs for each. It fleshes out relationships between the Citadel Kings and their neighbouring clans, and updates the timeline lightly but effectively: Good King Glyptus of Elkoi is no more, Dykene is in the grip of an ailing paranoid dictator, and the Votanki clans are in open revolt. Lead author Jon Hunter has curated his “Back to Balazar” blog for many years, and his book is a treasure-trove of ideas for RuneQuest game masters wanting to return to the glory days of Griffin Mountain. (210 pages for $20.00) Soul Survivor, by Lee Murphy: A choose-your-own-adventure soloquest following the travails of one Sartarite rebel returning home from the liberation of Pavis as a caravan guard. The paragraphs are neatly hyperlinked in the PDF, which is unillustrated. (72 pages for $10.15) 4 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...
Nick Brooke Posted July 23 Author Share Posted July 23 Minor update on 19 July: three smaller releases (Ian Thomson's Pavis & Big Rubble Companion Indexes, Zed Nope's Painted Runes, and my own Jonstown Compendium Best-Sellers - Summer 2024), and updated sales figures for the last three months. More importantly, the annual Christmas in July sale is up and running at DriveThruRPG, with dozens of Jonstown Compendium titles discounted by up to 40% in digital format, and many print authors have jumped on board as well: you can find discounts on the Print on Demand editions of Ships & Shores, The Children of Hykim, Nochet: Queen of Cities, Crimson King and more besides! 5 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 August 1 Author Share Posted August 1 Updated on 1 August: The Grazelands: Dominion of the Feathered Horse Queen, by John Lawson: The first of two massive tomes in which John Lawson sets out to anatomise every clan, village, landmark, leader, internecine squabble, doomed romance, petty power struggle etc. found in the Grazelands. The overview material can feel skimpy (e.g. half the five pages on “Customs” is a localised price list), the detail can feel overwhelming, and the organisation is somewhat haphazard, but this is a labour of obsessive love, which has been gorgeously illustrated by a diverse crew of talented artists. The scenario hooks are the highlight of this first volume (every one is localised, making extensive use of NPCs and location details from The Grazelands: Clans of the Pure Horse People); almost sixty pages of bullet-points listing suggested starting Passions for adventurers from more than forty clans are the lowlight; in general, the book is crying out for an editor – and not just another index – to make it more approachable. (Coming next year: a player-friendly Adventurer’s Guide to the Grazelands? Please, somebody make it happen!) (258 pages for $15.00) The Grazelands: Clans of the Pure Horse People, by John Lawson: The author tells us this book details 41 clans, 162 villages and 1500+ NPCs, and I have no reason to disbelieve him (and would surely lose the will to live if I had to make my own count!). There are sections about every Pure Horse People clan and its associated Vendref villages, mostly taken up with descriptions of prominent NPCs and quest-giving types, plus more details of the three famous tradeposts founded by King Sartar (each mapped and illustrated) and for sundry other groups (the SATAK bandits, sinister dragon cultists and the like); every section opens with a piece of gorgeous, whimsical, often wonderfully Gloranthan colour artwork. While there are layout infelicities (orphaned text and the like), and a startling amount of space is taken up by blank pages (38 pages) and repetitive tables of contents (for people who haven’t found Ctrl+F?: 41 pages), the book is remarkably good value, especially if bought in a bundle together with its indispensable companion, The Grazelands: Dominion of the Feathered Horse Queen. (785 pages for $30.00) Both books on The Grazelands are available in a money-saving bundle, and they constantly cross-reference each other, so if you want one you'll need the other to make any sense of it. 7 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 August 16 Author Share Posted August 16 (edited) Updated on 16 August: Life and Traditions under the Sun Dome, by @Malin Malin Rydén and CJ Håkansson. In 1992, my friend @MOB Michael O’Brien’s first book was published by Avalon Hill. Called Sun County, this acclaimed campaign setting and scenario pack for RuneQuest was set in a Bronze Age patriarchal theocratic dictatorship, a few days’ journey from the city of Pavis in the world of Glorantha. Thirty-two years later, two new authors have published a 300-page “supplement” all about everyday life in MOB’s imagined Sun County. This book examines their social classes, gender relations, religious rituals, political tensions, nuances of dress and diet and popular culture, and more besides. Designed to support RuneQuest campaigns, the book bulges with random event tables (road and river encounters, regional events, seasonal weather), adventurer generation (inc. family history), a cast of 100 potential NPC acquaintances and rivals, and new rules for tracking factional influence. Whether you’re playing as Sun County natives or merely hoping to pass through their xenophobic, intolerant regime without untoward incident, Life and Traditions under the Sun Dome will bring your game vividly to life. It’s a phenomenally detailed look at everyday life in a sophisticated, highly-cultured and proudly independent Gloranthan society, and a true labour of love. (It's also the perfect expansion for a Sandheart Sun County militia police procedural campaign). (300 pages for $19.95) Plus a smattering of recent releases -- Guide to Riskland (Map and Codex), Black Stag Vale Map, Colour Your Own Human and Hyena Tribe of Prax -- and an updated best-seller chart for the last three months (16 May to 15 August). Edited August 16 by Nick Brooke 4 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...
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