Upcoming Plans

[svensson]

I haven't seen much in the Chaosium blog about upcoming RQG material.

I realize that the company has to support a whole menu of games, but is there any word on upcoming RQG releases? From a player standpoint, we could really use some scenarios to work with. For all of us who've been playing in the 1620 ST timeframe, the Dragonrise and liberation of Sartar has created some great conflict, but it's a bit tough to get a handle on scenario-wise.

[Runeblogger]

See here: 

 

[g33k]

Also here:

https://basicroleplaying.org/topic/4064-upcoming-glorantha-publications/?page=1

Not exclusively RQ, but well organized & the known RQ books are clear.

[Sumath]

This is my running list of upcoming RQG releases based upon an original Facebook post by either Jason or Jeff and updated from various sources:

Gamemaster Sourcebook - a guide to running games in Glorantha, from soup to nuts. (Jason Durall)

HeroQuesting – currently still part of GM Sourcebook

***Gods and Goddesses of Glorantha Vol 1 - Jeff's big compendium of gods (Jeff Richards)

***Gods and Goddesses of Glorantha Vol 2 - the other half of that book (Jeff Richards)

-       manuscripts completed

Adventure Book 1 - a collection of intro/starter scenarios (“Initiates”) and points of interest. (includes Darkness at Runegate?)

Adventure Book 2 - a collection of scenarios (“Rune Masters”) by established and veteran RQ designers and writers (Ken Rolston, Steve Perrin, Penelope Love...)

Adventure Book 3 - a collection of scenarios written in collaboration with Sandy Petersen

Adventure Book 4 - a collection of adventures along a particular theme (to be announced when contracts are locked down)

Spell Cards - card decks with Rune spells, spirit magic spells, sorcery, and other useful references

***The Red Book of Magic – a complete guide to Spirit and Rune Magic – manuscript completed 

Adventurer Journal - a journal-style character booklet

Trollpack vol 1 "troll info and adventures for humans" (Dan McCluskey)
Trollpack vol 2 "everything you need to run troll PCs in a trollish setting with a campaign based around trollish clan life" (Dan McCluskey)
Trollpack vol 3 "covering Dagori Inkarth with a full description of Redstone, and takes the campaign literally from 'tussle over a cave' into creative heroquesting, PC heroes stomping around like a chit in the DP wargame, and climaxes with one of the defining magical events of the Hero Wars" (Dan McCluskey)

The Upland Marsh - a sourcebook with adventures (Jared Twing)

***Dragon Pass Campaign Sourcebook - a guide and sourcebook to Dragon Pass (Jeff Richards?) – manuscript completed

Glorantha Cookbook - recipes and a culinary travelogue (Claudia Loroff)

Barbarian Town Sourcebook - source material and adventures (Sarah Newton)

Big Rubble - source material and adventures (Robin Laws)

Pavis - source material and adventures (Robin Laws)

Riders of the Storm: Nomads of the Wastelands (Praxpak) (David Scott)

Grazelands - source material and adventures

Kralorela - source material and adventures

Nochet - source material and adventures (Harald Smith)

Casino Town/Holy Country book

Seapolis - a sourcebook and adventure

Gloranthan Adventures 3 - Defending the Dark (from D101) (Newt Newport)

Sun County (updated for the Hero Wars) (MOB)

Dragon Pass - remodelled version of the classic board game, via Kickstarter (Chris Klug)

There will be Gloranthan fiction in various shapes and sizes

[g33k]

@Sumath --

That's a great list!  A couple of them (Praxpak, Trollpack) were, last I knew, still "on the fence" between RQG or HQG... Do you recall them being definitively stated as having joined the RQ hero-band?

Also, some of those projects appear to be VERY forward-looking, and may not make it to a final project, or may morph to unrecognizability before they do...

Because, y'know, stuff happens.  RL scores a critical hit, and gaming takes the fall.  I recall a BRP "Noir Detective" (not Cthulhu) game that apparently had lots of excitement at Chaosium and they were talking about / tease'ing online & at 'Cons... but RL, and it's not happening any more.

Still and all, a great list to see!  TYVM!

[Sumath]

9 minutes ago, g33k said:

That's a great list!  A couple of them (Praxpak, Trollpack) were, last I knew, still "on the fence" between RQG or HQG... Do you recall them being definitively stated as having joined the RQ hero-band?

In the original Facebook post (Sept or Oct 18), which was specifically about Runequest releases, two Trollpak volumes were mentioned, so I'm assuming that all three will be for RQG. Not so sure about Praxpak though.

There were some other items mentioned for which there was no solid plan and which "may go somewhere or be in development for years. Or be vapor." These were:

Elder Races Adventurer Pack
RuneQuest Grimoire
"The Great RuneQuest Campaign"
Lunar Empire Sourcebook
The Invisible God Sorcery Book

There was also mention of the fact that half a dozen RQ Fantasy Earth books were in development, but there were no specifics on these.

[Sumath]

Actually, given that Jeff recently said that RQG was now one of the pillars of Chaosium, I'd expect most Gloranthan releases to be RQG compatible. Certainly it's easier to convert a RQG scenario to HQG than the other way around.

[g33k]

57 minutes ago, Sumath said:

Actually, given that Jeff recently said that RQG was now one of the pillars of Chaosium, I'd expect most Gloranthan releases to be RQG compatible. Certainly it's easier to convert a RQG scenario to HQG than the other way around.

As a RQ fan, I certainly prefer RQ content I can play directly!

The day they opened orders for RQG was, I think MOB said, the single biggest day of webstore sales ever recorded by Chaosium; and they ran out of stock (as I understand it) MUCH faster than they expected to.  So it's going gangbusters for them!