Magic of Glorantha - Preview

[MongooseMatt]

Hi guys,

The first details of Magic of Gloranmtha are up on our site, along with two excerpts of artwork that grace this fine tome!

You can find them all at http://www.mongoosepublishing.com/home/series.php?qsSeries=39

 

[burdock]

What a beautiful, colourful cover! And the Clanking city looks atmospheric.

 

[BlueCorpse]

You know this is the first preview that makes me really feel that this is a new Runequest and not just and alternative version of what has gone before. I am now really looking forward to the new Gloranthan material.

 

[wartorn]

Great stuff! Looking forward!

 

[andakitty]

Oh, my. That is some nice artwork. The city on the cover looks...Melnibonean. :shock:

 

[Rurik]

Oh, my. That is some nice artwork. The city on the cover looks...Melnibonean. :shock:

The EWF is really the Dragon Empire in it's prime. I don't think Elric comes about until sometimes in the fourth age.

 

[andakitty]

I like the vibe.

 

[WildHealer]

Very nice Clanking City indeed. I especially like the implications of the billowing smoke - what are they using for fuel?!? If the content is as good as the piccie, we're onto something here. Like it. Like it a lot.

I don't like the generic D&D fireball though. What spell is that? Would've been nice to see a "Sunspear" or something like that. Or a Sever Spirit. :twisted:

 

[homerjsinnott]

TCC is nice, there are some brilliant British industrial/victorian paintings that could be used to give, Ahem! flesh to the Clanking city. And I'm sure Dickens could be used to describe it. I might try to find some.


All Hail their dark satanic mills!

 

[Enpeze]

Very nice Clanking City indeed. I especially like the implications of the billowing smoke - what are they using for fuel?!? If the content is as good as the piccie, we're onto something here. Like it. Like it a lot.

I don't like the generic D&D fireball though. What spell is that? Would've been nice to see a "Sunspear" or something like that. Or a Sever Spirit. :twisted:

Maybe its your favourite spell: skybolt

 

[SteveMND]

I don't like the generic D&D fireball though.

You know, that's what I initially thought, but then realized, hey, there's only so many ways you can depict a blast of elemental fire scorching someone...

Besides the more I looked at the picture, the more RueQuest-y it started to feel. Weird bone armor, a creepy cultish guy casting the spell. I can't find fault.

What spell is that?

Presumably "firebolt," judging by the name of the image.

 

[Rurik]

I don't like the generic D&D fireball though.

You know, that's what I initially thought, but then realized, hey, there's only so many ways you can depict a blast of elemental fire scorching someone...

Besides the more I looked at the picture, the more RueQuest-y it started to feel. Weird bone armor, a creepy cultish guy casting the spell. I can't find fault.

What spell is that?

Presumably "firebolt," judging by the name of the image.

So are you saying the EWF or God learners had access to D&D magic?!?!?!

No wonder they kept it a big secret.

 

[SteveMND]

So are you saying the EWF or God learners had access to D&D magic?

No, I'm saying no matter how many ways you draw a picture of a guy blasting another guy with elemetal fire, it's going to all look relatively similar...

3rd age magic seemed much more 'understated' to me (which I liked), but I would fully expect the sort of immense magics wielded by the 2nd Age powers to be far flashier and dramatic in scope.

 

[andakitty]

Take Rurik with a grain of salt. He's a joker.

 

[atgxtg]

Say, is the MRQ 2nd Age stuff canon?

I mean, will Greg be incoproating any of the 2nd age stuff into his works/timeline, or it is just all gonna go "boom". FOr instance, are any of the cults in the Cults of GLorantha book going to survive beyond the second age?

 

[GbajiTheDeceiver]

It's weird the way these thing work. The Clanking City pic just doesn't do it for me - too much smoke I think. It looks like a generic "factory", whereas in Glorantha with it's emphasis on magic (and the weird twist that everything gets) I would have always imagined something different. More claustrophobic, more "primitive/industrial" in feel, and certainly no chimneys. Something like a Borg cube, even.

 

[homerjsinnott]

Some new previews please!