Esrolia: Land of 10,000 Goddesses

[richaje]

Howdy all -

I just finished editing the final draft of "Esrolia: Land of 10,000 Goddesses" (by Greg Stafford and me) and it is now being formatted and laid out by Rick Meints for the Tentacles Special Release (it will later be released as part of Moon Design's Stafford Library).

For anyone who wanted to know anything about Esrolia, Ernalda, the Great Temple of Ernalda (Ezel), Nochet, Rhigos, Imarja, or even the origins of the Kitori - this is the book for you! Packed with glorious new maps of Nochet through the ages (beautifully done by Colin Driver), and tons of new art by Simon Bray and Mike O'Connor, this will be a fantastic resource for any Gloranthaphile.

Fabian and Rick will have more details about its availability at Tentacles, but this book is definitely a very very cool resource.

Solid Gloranthan Gold as we used to say.

Jeff

 

[Rurik]

I, for one, am very much looking forward to this one.

Do you know if it will be available in print and pdf on release or pdf only at first?

 

[richaje]

I, for one, am very much looking forward to this one.

Do you know if it will be available in print and pdf on release or pdf only at first?

I know there will be some form of a print copy available at Tentacles. Whether it is a general release version or a special, limited-edition hardcover is up to Rick and Fabian. I suspect that the version available at Tentacles will be a very high quality hardcover that will be sold to raise money for the Con.

We will also be having a Glorantha Q&A with Greg Stafford, Lawrence Whitacker and myself. We will be talking about Esrolia, Dara Happa, Second Age, Third Age, Harmast Barefoot, and anything else folk want to hear (and we have time for).

Jeff

 

[duncan_disorderly]

I, for one, am very much looking forward to this one.

Do you know if it will be available in print and pdf on release or pdf only at first?

I know there will be some form of a print copy available at Tentacles. Whether it is a general release version or a special, limited-edition hardcover is up to Rick and Fabian. I suspect that the version available at Tentacles will be a very high quality hardcover that will be sold to raise money for the Con.

This is what happened with Middle Sea Empire and History of the Heortling people. High quality Limited Editions were sold at the con as a fund raiser. A few months later, the "regular" Stafford Library editions were released. I think the PDF's were released around about the same time, or shortly thereafter.

 

[The King]

This is what happened with Middle Sea Empire and History of the Heortling people. High quality Limited Editions were sold at the con as a fund raiser. A few months later, the "regular" Stafford Library editions were released. I think the PDF's were released around about the same time, or shortly thereafter.

The difference is that History of the Heortling people isn't available yet as printed copy for those who doesn't have the hard cover.

 

[richaje]

This is what happened with Middle Sea Empire and History of the Heortling people. High quality Limited Editions were sold at the con as a fund raiser. A few months later, the "regular" Stafford Library editions were released. I think the PDF's were released around about the same time, or shortly thereafter.

The difference is that History of the Heortling people isn't available yet as printed copy for those who doesn't have the hard cover.

"Yet" is the wrong word. As I understand it, sold out is more accurate. It was available through Warehouse 23, but sold out is now out of stock.

Jeff

 

[Osentalka]

"History of the Heortling People" were was a hardcover book, as far as i know.
The limited edition book was made for CONTINUUM Convention in 2006 and was called "The Durengard Scrolls" (a nice book, but no hardcover), and the pre-release edition made for TENTACLES in 2007 was a softcover, like the regular one, which was published later on.

 

[The King]

"Yet" is the wrong word. As I understand it, sold out is more accurate. It was available through Warehouse 23, but sold out is now out of stock.

Jeff

Are you sure? Printed copies are usually available at nobleknight.com and it is the most recent issue that isn't available.
Moreover it appears to me that History of the Heortling people is available at Drivethrugh since quite recently. Hence my use of "yet".

 

[Loz]

"Yet" is the wrong word. As I understand it, sold out is more accurate. It was available through Warehouse 23, but sold out is now out of stock.

Jeff

Are you sure? Printed copies are usually available at nobleknight.com and it is the most recent issue that isn't available.
Moreover it appears to me that History of the Heortling people is available at Drivethrugh since quite recently. Hence my use of "yet".

I have a soft cover copy. Okay, Rick Meints gave it to me at Tentacles last year, but it was most certainly available. I think Jeff's right when he says sold out.

 

[The King]

I have a soft cover copy. Okay, Rick Meints gave it to me at Tentacles last year, but it was most certainly available. I think Jeff's right when he says sold out.

This either means that is was printed in very few numbers or else that Heortlings are much more appreciated than any other.

 

[Rurik]

I was under the impression that History of the Heortling People and Blood over Gold have never been available in printed copy to the general public.

I prefer printed over pdf. Pdf has two advantages - easy access as long as I am at a computer and text searchable. As the Stafford Library pdf's I do have are not freakin' text searchable they have limited appeal to me.

 

[Mark Mohrfield]

This either means that is was printed in very few numbers or else that Heortlings are much more appreciated than any other.

I assume the latter, as I have a copy and got it through normal channels.

Mark Mohrfield

 

[The King]

I was under the impression that History of the Heortling People and Blood over Gold have never been available in printed copy to the general public.

I prefer printed over pdf. Pdf has two advantages - easy access as long as I am at a computer and text searchable. As the Stafford Library pdf's I do have are not freakin' text searchable they have limited appeal to me.

I had exactly the same impression.
And indeed I prefer a book than to print my own page (the only advange of PDF being you can print it again if you loose the copy).

 

[The King]

This either means that is was printed in very few numbers or else that Heortlings are much more appreciated than any other.

I assume the latter, as I have a copy and got it through normal channels.

Mark Mohrfield

Too bad for me then.

 

[richaje]

I was under the impression that History of the Heortling People and Blood over Gold have never been available in printed copy to the general public.

I prefer printed over pdf. Pdf has two advantages - easy access as long as I am at a computer and text searchable. As the Stafford Library pdf's I do have are not freakin' text searchable they have limited appeal to me.

I had exactly the same impression.
And indeed I prefer a book than to print my own page (the only advange of PDF being you can print it again if you loose the copy).

Golly, my PDF of Heortling History is fully searchable - and I am pretty damn sure it is the same version you get from RPG.net (since that's where I got my author PDF copy). Let me check - searching "Alakoring"... yep, it works.

And it has a handy index as well (although I prefer just searching... hmm let's look up "weasel" -- aha, good old King Orvamarth!).

I don't know what the problem is with your version. Maybe it is your version of Adobe?

Jeff

 

[duncan_disorderly]

I was under the impression that History of the Heortling People and Blood over Gold have never been available in printed copy to the general public.

I think HHP was available as a hardcopy from Warehouse23 but not, for some reason, from Tradetalk. This is why I don't have a hard copy of this one.

I am still waiting for Blood Over Gold to come out as a proper book that I can buy in my FLGS. I think the only printed copies of this one were the Tentacles preview.

Golly, my PDF of Heortling History is fully searchable - and I am pretty damn sure it is the same version you get from RPG.net (since that's where I got my author PDF copy). Let me check - searching "Alakoring"... yep, it works.

I just checked GroY and I can search that - as it is the earliest of the Pre-finished works/Stafford Library books to be released as a PDF I'd guess the others are also searchable. I vaguely recall someone complaining about one of the PDF's not having all the functionality of some of the others, and Rick identifying the problem as being a changed setting and correcting it, so it might be worth contacting him if you appear to have a "broken" version?

 

[Rurik]

I only have 2 Stafford Library in PDF, Arcane Lore and Middle Sea Empire, and actually Arcane Lore is fully searchable. Middle Sea Empire is definately not searchable. Text in some of the sidebar boxes is found when I find, but nothing is ever found in the main body text.

Maybe it is just a problem with Middle Sea then. My copy came from Drivethru.

 

[richaje]

I only have 2 Stafford Library in PDF, Arcane Lore and Middle Sea Empire, and actually Arcane Lore is fully searchable. Middle Sea Empire is definately not searchable. Text in some of the sidebar boxes is found when I find, but nothing is ever found in the main body text.

Maybe it is just a problem with Middle Sea then. My copy came from Drivethru.

I just checked my Drivethru copy of MSE and it is fully searchable (just was looking up "Abiding Book"). How odd.

Jeff

 

[Rurik]

Did it find lots of Abiding Book matches or just the one in the Malkioneranism Break Out box? That is exactly the search that made me realise the boxes work. I do not find Abiding book in the main body text at all. I suspect it should appear there at least a couple times :wink: .

If mine is just a bad copy I'll see if I can get a good one through Drivethru.

 

[richaje]

Did it find lots of Abiding Book matches or just the one in the Malkioneranism Break Out box? That is exactly the search that made me realise the boxes work. I do not find Abiding book in the main body text at all. I suspect it should appear there at least a couple times :wink: .

If mine is just a bad copy I'll see if I can get a good one through Drivethru.

Tried it more thoroughly and you are right. However, Heortling People is definitely fully searchable.

Jeff