2nd Age Balazar
- Thread starter Durand Durand
- Start date
Quire said:
To be honest, its not worth the loss in sales it'd cause - too many people like our flat rate postage rather than getting a nasty shock. Besides its such a tiny of parcels that hit that area thats too heavy to post and doesn't quite make enough to cover the courier delivery that it's really not worth changing anything over. Come to think of it, its such a tiny number that have RPG orders compared to miniatures, anyway
Changing our postage scheme would just cause more damage than its worth as it would mean setting the site up to charge by weight on everything, including miniatures orders (which we pretty much rely on), and just annoy the people that use us because they only have to pay £2.50 to get £150 of miniatures delivered.
I want to keep the RPGs there as much as possible for customers that want them, even though I can say pretty honestly they account for under 10% of our total profits. I may have to go through some time and bump up the prices of especially heavy ones by 50p or so, though
At the end of the day its no different to the supermarket putting something at half price - they're likely making a tiny loss on it, but if it brings people in the doors they more than make it back on other things.
andakitty said:Here in Seattle, the home of WOTC and a veritable hotbed of D&D, you don't find many RQ players. Just to see what would happen yesterday I posted a notice in a local yahoo game group for a 'testdrive' of MRQ at a local gamestore and there were three responses overnight. Well, well.
Seattle probably has more Gloranthan contribution per capita than any other city. Between myself, David Dunham, Neil Robinson, Pam Carlson, and Rob Helm, there's been an awful lot of Gloranthan source material written in that town.
Jeff
homerjsinnott
Mongoose
richaje said:andakitty said:Here in Seattle, the home of WOTC and a veritable hotbed of D&D, you don't find many RQ players. Just to see what would happen yesterday I posted a notice in a local yahoo game group for a 'testdrive' of MRQ at a local gamestore and there were three responses overnight. Well, well.
Seattle probably has more Gloranthan contribution per capita than any other city. Between myself, David Dunham, Neil Robinson, Pam Carlson, and Rob Helm, there's been an awful lot of Gloranthan source material written in that town.
Jeff
I'm moving to Seattle! Pity about your American Football team though,
although you do have Frasier.Vikings for ever! [runs]
From a Brit
homerjsinnott said:I'm moving to Seattle! Pity about your American Football team though,
From a Brit
The Vikings? Man, I could have taken that from a Bears fan or a Colts fan or a Saints fan or even a Patriots fan - but the Vikings? Come on!
Jeff (who plans to cheer for the Colts just to make sure the Bears go down)
Out of interest (and in keeping with the topic of this thread)...
Back last August I did submit a proposal for a MRQ campaign setting in Balazar to Mongoose. To be fair I'd been told at Continuum that Gloranthan campaign submissions werent of interest (and I've no incline to do non-Gloranthan material anyway!) so i submitted a proposal anyway.
Very promptly and nicely I was replied:
In hindsight Mongoose were totally right that a submission would need 2A Glorantha book release - and indeed certainly Magic of Glorantha to truly show what the Second Age was about and indeed another proposal would look very different - but I wasnt that far off the mark methinks.
Lets hope that Gloranthan Campaign material has bumped highly up the list (I still feel its vital otherwise I see MRQ as another V:TM source, source and more source books) but yet these are ALWAYS better illustrated thru compaigns that lazy or newbie GMs can grab off the shelf...
Just hope one day they come back to me and say "hey, that idea you had... would you do another proposal?"
Back last August I did submit a proposal for a MRQ campaign setting in Balazar to Mongoose. To be fair I'd been told at Continuum that Gloranthan campaign submissions werent of interest (and I've no incline to do non-Gloranthan material anyway!) so i submitted a proposal anyway.
Very promptly and nicely I was replied:
In hindsight Mongoose were totally right that a submission would need 2A Glorantha book release - and indeed certainly Magic of Glorantha to truly show what the Second Age was about and indeed another proposal would look very different - but I wasnt that far off the mark methinks.
Lets hope that Gloranthan Campaign material has bumped highly up the list (I still feel its vital otherwise I see MRQ as another V:TM source, source and more source books) but yet these are ALWAYS better illustrated thru compaigns that lazy or newbie GMs can grab off the shelf...
Just hope one day they come back to me and say "hey, that idea you had... would you do another proposal?"
duncan_disorderly
Mongoose
Ravage said:
Didn't Mark or Simon say Unspoken Word were going to be supporting MRQ? You could try submitting your proposal to them... then you could really show Mongoose what they missed out on
Banned Beetle
Mongoose
From the little information we have about the first Gloranthan 2nd Age scenario to be published, I do fear we'll mainly see a lot of high-level powergaming scenarions.
Starting up with a low-mid level scenario would have been preferred the way I see it.
Trif.
Starting up with a low-mid level scenario would have been preferred the way I see it.
Trif.
Banned Beetle
Mongoose
Quire said:
With powergaming, I meant adventuring with powerful characters, high-level characters. I'll most likely buy the scenario, but as it is concerned with raiding myths & heroquesting, I think it's safe to assume it will be a scenario for high-level characters.
I was just expressing my view that a low or mid-level scenario might be have been nice to start with, and some fear that this might not appear for a while.
Trif.
1. Hmm, I read this thread expecting to see something about Imperial Age Balazar... There is a little information in the unfinished work The Fortunate Succession (see http://www.pensee.com/dunham/glorantha/products.html), which says "Votanki c. 890 -- secede from EWF. BIG RAID on EWF."
2. What's an ACTA release? I haven't released Acta since 1999 (see http://a-sharp.com/acta/history.html).
2. What's an ACTA release? I haven't released Acta since 1999 (see http://a-sharp.com/acta/history.html).
There is very little from Mongoose on Votankiland/Balazar - other than that it keeps getting referred to as Balazar even though he doesn't come to the area for about another 100 years or so from the default setting date of 908.
ACTA is the acronym for A Call To Arms, Mongooses Babylon 5 spaceship combat game.
ACTA is the acronym for A Call To Arms, Mongooses Babylon 5 spaceship combat game.
duncan_disorderly said:
If you look at the Mongoose "OGL" policy on third parties (like Unspoken Word) publishing Gloranthan Runequest you will find that it is prohibited. You can publish something for Runequest, but not if it is Gloranthan Runequest. Publishing something Gloranthan (but not for Runequest) also requires a license from Issaries.
Sorry,
Rick
Trifletraxor
Mongoose
So, is it prohibited to use the OGL in even if you got permission/lisence from Greg? :shock:
SGL.
SGL.
Similar threads
