Magic of Glorantha...Got Mine!!!

[mserabian]

Hey guys

I just received my pre-order of Magic of Glorantha today. It looks simply awesome. It's got a lot more in it than we were lead to believe.

Here's the chapter list:

Intro - 2 pages
Draconic Mysticism - 40 pages
God Learner Sorcery - 12 pages
The Old Ways - 5 pages
Heroquesting - 26 pages
Magicians of the Imperial Age - 9 pages
Index - 1 page

Draconic Mysticism covers 9 Draconic Cults, Draconic Dances and Martial Arts, plus a bunch of new spells.

God Learner Sorcery covers the Invisible God, The Machine God, and the Goddess Switch plus spells (some related directly to heroquesting) and MechaMagic of the Clanking City.

The Old Ways covers the Storm Gods and the Sky Gods.

Heroquesting covers Runequest SIght, how to heroquest, then lists each of the storm gods and some of their myths, plus a list of deeds you can emulate as heroquests, and a list of rewards! The same goes for the Sky Gods, the Unholy Trio, and some other gods as well. This is the kind of chapter I've been longing for since I discovered RQ!

Magicians of the Imperial Age is a collection of NPCs. No stats, just nice descriptions and a couple paragraphs about serving the NPC (ie quests they will send the pc's on).

All in all this looks like one hell of a book.

Aaron - Great job! Now I can't wait for the rest of your books!!

mal

 

[Dead Blue Clown]

Aw, thanks a bunch. Hell of a nice thing to say, man.

Honestly, though, I keep taking it down just to look at the cover. That's my fave bit. I'll kiss that goddamn artist if he gets in kissing radius, I swear. I could've written garbage and the book would still sell because of the job the artists did.

I dearly wish I'd asked for art of the spell Channel the Ghost-Breath of the Unborn Dragon (which, I think is...Summon Wraithfire in common parlance)...but that'd have been a killer piccy.

Pages 47, 51, 54 and 63 are all beautiful pieces. I gushed to the artist about them when I got his email address. I'm really hoping he'll do the Clanking City art, because his mechamagics were luvverly.

 

[Rurik]

I just received my pre-order of Magic of Glorantha today. It looks simply awesome. It's got a lot more in it than we were lead to believe.

Obligatory I hate you. I expect mine is around 2 weeks away.

 

[Rurik]

Honestly, though, I keep taking it down just to look at the cover. That's my fave bit. I'll kiss that goddamn artist if he gets in kissing radius, I swear. I could've written garbage and the book would still sell because of the job the artists did.

Is there more of Nathan Furman's work (the guy from Runic Powers)? 'Cause I loved his stuff.

 

[mserabian]

Is there more of Nathan Furman's work (the guy from Runic Powers)? 'Cause I loved his stuff.

He's listed as one of the interior artists.

mal

 

[ninthcouncil]

I just received my pre-order of Magic of Glorantha today. It looks simply awesome. It's got a lot more in it than we were lead to believe.

Obligatory I hate you. I expect mine is around 2 weeks away.

Yeah, I hate him too! Feel the force of our opprobrium mserabian!!! :lol:

Playin' Games didn't really know when they were expecting it. I'll check again next week.

 

[gamesmeister]

I spoke to the dudes at Esdevium this afternoon and they're not expecting it till some time next week at the earliest, which probably means the week after in UK stores.

 

[gran_orco]

I have the book since November 11th And cults of glorantha, too.

 

[indrodar]

EDIT - double-post

 

[indrodar]

I'm looking forward to the copy I picked up on ebay - while hoping it wasn't a cheeky "advertise it before it comes out" - type scam...

(I picked it up for just less than retail, but then got stung by "seller's standard charge" postage. Got the screen as well, for half price, but including the seven pounds! postage, it still comes out a couple of quid more than my FLGS. So I better get it before he does, cause he's gonna be pissed!)

I'll let you know what I think of it when it appears. Let's just say, everything I hear makes me more excited about it!

Mike

xxx

who has got Cults of Glorantha, and obviously isn't looking at it forensically enough, cause I likes it!

 

[ninthcouncil]

I spoke to the dudes at Esdevium this afternoon and they're not expecting it till some time next week at the earliest, which probably means the week after in UK stores.

Playin' Games said yesterday that they expect it on Wednesday (13 Dec). I'll be in town again on Thursday so I'll be heading straight there!

 

[soltakss]

Wayland's Forge hadn't heard of it - again! But then the bossman said he wasn't expecting it this week, maybe next week.

Second City? Birmimgham? Not for RPGs

 

[Exubae]

Wayland's Forge hadn't heard of it - again! But then the bossman said he wasn't expecting it this week, maybe next week.

Bloomin' El, Well at least it has saved me a walk to the Forge, at least Roj wont be able to talk me into buying some other stuff...
Mind you, last week he said he may have some more Ducks in...

 

[duncan_disorderly]

Wayland's Forge hadn't heard of it - again! But then the bossman said he wasn't expecting it this week, maybe next week.

Bloomin' El, Well at least it has saved me a walk to the Forge, at least Roj wont be able to talk me into buying some other stuff...
Mind you, last week he said he may have some more Ducks in...

Either he's getting forgetful in the Christmas Rush, or there are holdups in the delivery, 'cos I was in there on Friday and it was on the new Release sheet...
I hope it's the former, 'cos I want to pick my copy upo this Friday...

 

[Exubae]

Wayland's Forge hadn't heard of it - again! But then the bossman said he wasn't expecting it this week, maybe next week.

Its in at Waylands Forge, Roj just cracked open the parcels from Esdevium...
Looking good so far...
Inhuman King looks odd (In a not very dragonish way) but at first glance its looking good.

 

[soltakss]

Maybe it was last week he said that.

I've off for a few days, so I'll pop in on Thursday PM to see what it's like - spending my Christmas money early!

 

[ninthcouncil]

Picked mine up this afternoon. I haven't had a chance to do ayhting other than glance at it yet, but I'm looking forward to doing so.

 

[indrodar]

Picked mine up from the PO this morning and it is very pretty. Just quickly scanned through it but it all looks interesting to me.

Dragonspeakers - love the fact that your casting skill can't be higher than your martial arts or dance skill (whichever is lower). And the dragonbone armour sounds kinda funky.

God Learners - what's not to love! More hints about the GL secret (although it does say it will never be revealed...) The again it says the same about the secret of Zistor - and then tells you that in the next paragraph.

The Old Ways - a little background and a few spells.

Heroquesting - what RQ players have been waiting for for years! (Although I think I'm still gonna prefer HQ's freeform nature when it comes to this.) Rules and a list of Storm and Solar dieties and ideas of Myths to plunder.

[I notice they've got Gustbran in the Sky Gods. Thought he was another exile from the Fire Tribe, like Elmal? And Gargath/Gagrath/Gargrath - how do you spell it?]

And brief character notes for major magicians of the Imperial Age. Have to agree with an earlier poster - the Inhuman King doesn't look inhuman enough! He's a dragon(newt), not some bloke in a Sacred Time costume.

Minor criticisms, it all looks good so far. Some bedtime reading for me.

I'm not keeping up with MG's release schedule - they are putting them out faster than I can read them properly. Damn real life getting in the way again! (And I have to go pick up Arms and Equipment too!)

 

[soltakss]

The Old Ways - a little background and a few spells.

I didn't like them - I don't much like spells available to All Storm Gods or All Fire Gods.

Heroquesting - what RQ players have been waiting for for years! (Although I think I'm still gonna prefer HQ's freeform nature when it comes to this.) Rules and a list of Storm and Solar dieties and ideas of Myths to plunder.

They are a good backbone for HeroQuesting. I'd use the classic format for HeroQuesting combined with these.

[I notice they've got Gustbran in the Sky Gods. Thought he was another exile from the Fire Tribe, like Elmal? And Gargath/Gagrath/Gargrath - how do you spell it?]

Both, really. The Orlanthi got him as one of the Lowfires released on the LBQ. The Solars get him as Lodril's son. All the Lowfires are available to many different pantheons.

And brief character notes for major magicians of the Imperial Age. Have to agree with an earlier poster - the Inhuman King doesn't look inhuman enough! He's a dragon(newt), not some bloke in a Sacred Time costume.

Unless he is trying to look humanoid rather than being a sort-of Dragon. Perhaps he's trying not to scare the little humans.

I'm not keeping up with MG's release schedule - they are putting them out faster than I can read them properly. Damn real life getting in the way again! (And I have to go pick up Arms and Equipment too!)

Arms and Equipment is very good, perhaps the best of the core books so far. It's well worth getting.

If you want to use RQ2/3 style weapons then they are detailed here, but there's a lot, lot more as well.

 

[The King]

Aren't there anything more specific scheduled about heroquesting?