What are the next books for Glorantha?

[The King]

Would it be possible to know the next Gloranthan-specific books which are scheduled (excepted Lairs of Glorantha) and with the approximative month or quarter of release?
And what about the castle of lead campaign which was planed for this year?
Thanks in advance.

 

[JonGeere]

Would it be possible to know the next Gloranthan-specific books which are scheduled (excepted Lairs of Glorantha) and with the approximative month or quarter of release?
And what about the castle of lead campaign which was planed for this year?
Thanks in advance.

No response from Mongoose. Is this a sign of a lower book production rate for MRQ Glorantha?

Shame if so as they did some good stuff.

 

[Loz]

The Glorantha line will not be ramping down - far from it - so although its quiet right now, you will start to get news shortly. As to specifics, you'll just have to wait a little, but needless to say there'll be a great of new and interesting stuff.

 

[JonGeere]

The Glorantha line will not be ramping down - far from it - so although its quiet right now, you will start to get news shortly. As to specifics, you'll just have to wait a little, but needless to say there'll be a great of new and interesting stuff.

Great news.

With Moon Designs' books, the Gloranthan Boardgame and maybe a PC game it could well be the best of times.

But let's not get carried away just yet!

 

[B_Steele]

The next Glorantha book with my name attached to it is called "Lairs of Glorantha". It is a sourcebook with a bunch of "mini-adventures" that are the stereotypical fantasy genre type things, given a Gloranthan spin. You know, the "go hunt a monster and save the day" sorts of things that should only take a session or two instead of epic campaigns. It also includes a Games Master chapter to help someone roll up a quick "monster hunt" mini-adventure, but the meat of the book is the written mini-adventures.

Does that brighten the future a little?

-Bry

 

[The King]

Hi Bry,
I know Lairs of Glorantha is a sort of companion to Ruins and it is already on the agenda.
My question concerned the books that aren't yet mentioned though.

 

[The King]

Lairs of Glorantha has disappeared and there is nothing Gloranthan on schedule anymore. :shock: :evil:

 

[Blackyinkin]

Hi,

I am presently working on illustrating Sartar for the Heroquest 2 Game produced by Moon Design which is due for release in early Autumn. I know its Third Age and not RQ but is is a great Gloranthan resource full of detail on the Orlanthi, Dragon Pass and contains a truelly epic adventure. Due to the material being very stat low it is immediatly convertable to MRQ or any other game you choose.

Simon

 

[The King]

Hi Simon,

I read this on the HQ-Glorantha site (and discovered the new Web site as well). This campaign should be great but I hope there isn't too much rewrite from the previous Sartar books from HW.
BTW do you know if we'll see someday the end of the Rising Dragon campaign? (Only 3 booklets released until now).

 

[Blackyinkin]

Hi,

There is a lot of new material in this book, over 80% is new, with only the most important stuff being drawn from the previous books. It is a very different animal to the books that came before, much more approachable, playable and directed at Narrators and Players alike.

The scenario/campaign included in the book is over 70 pages long, and this time the players are the actual heroes, they take the lead, and are not peripheral to the plot as they were in Sartar Rising.

There are new NPC's, major players in the world for your players to interact with. There are new major takes on the cults of Sartar from Orlanth and Ernalda to Yinkin and Urox, all giving new depth.

At present the book stands at 330 pages of detail, depth and fun. I personally think it is great, I know you may say I am biased, but when I received the book I found myself reading it from cover to cover, a first for any Gloranthan book and me.

Simon

 

[The King]

and what about the end of the 4 part campaign?

 

[Mark Mohrfield]

and what about the end of the 4 part campaign?

I believe this is being re-written by Stafford as part of a work tentatively entitled "The Great Argrath Campaign", which is one of those "any year now" projects.

 

[The King]

Thanks for the answer; may be it will be on schedule after the big Sartar book.

 

[JonGeere]

The Glorantha line will not be ramping down - far from it - so although its quiet right now, you will start to get news shortly. As to specifics, you'll just have to wait a little, but needless to say there'll be a great of new and interesting stuff.

Just a quick question Loz. What do you define as 'start to get news shortly', given that it not unheard of to wait up to decades for a Gloranthan product [I wish I was jesting about the decades wait!].

 

[The King]

Bump!

What's next for Glorantha?

 

[Tal]

I imagine they are waiting for MRQ 2 to release. We probably we hear something in the 'State of' release that should be coming soon(Nov?)'

 

[soltakss]

Looking at the schedule, it's all Traveller and Paranoia. Planet Mongoose is Traveller, Traveller, Traveller. So, it's easy to see where their priorities lie at the moment.

RQ presumably has a future with Mongoose, as nobody has said otherwise, but it looks to me that the other games are being pushed harder than RQ. There was a time when RQ was being pushed harder than the other games, so I am sure that RQ will come around again.

 

[The King]

May be but it's been 6 months that we haven't anything for Glorantha, excepted few articles in S&P.
It would be good to know what they want to do and which direction they'll take for Glorantha (2nd Age).

 

[Icebrand]

The next Glorantha book with my name attached to it is called "Lairs of Glorantha". It is a sourcebook with a bunch of "mini-adventures" that are the stereotypical fantasy genre type things, given a Gloranthan spin. You know, the "go hunt a monster and save the day" sorts of things that should only take a session or two instead of epic campaigns. It also includes a Games Master chapter to help someone roll up a quick "monster hunt" mini-adventure, but the meat of the book is the written mini-adventures.

Does that brighten the future a little?

-Bry

Indeed it does! I'm actually thinking on toning down the epic campaing after my current story arc finale, and a series of classic and more "down to the inner world" adventures would come extra handy!

Looking at the schedule, it's all Traveller and Paranoia. Planet Mongoose is Traveller, Traveller, Traveller. So, it's easy to see where their priorities lie at the moment.

RQ presumably has a future with Mongoose, as nobody has said otherwise, but it looks to me that the other games are being pushed harder than RQ. There was a time when RQ was being pushed harder than the other games, so I am sure that RQ will come around again.

We'll probably have to wait till the "revised and expanded " version till RQ stuff starts coming out again

 

[Inspector Zero]

We'll probably have to wait till the "revised and expanded " version till RQ stuff starts coming out again

I would agree with this. If you were Mongoose what would you want to do? Firstly the major races have had treatment and although there is no doubt room for an Uz Two, Aldryami Two and so on would this be the publishing priority? I'm not sure. If I were them I'd be thinking about what might sell best. Certainly core rulebooks and then probably the cults again. It depends on the extent to which the "revision and expansion" is a major shift away from the present. It's not outside the bounds of possibility that all the current published material will be reissued amended to fit with MRQ II.

Assuming that we'll be enjoying new material and not rehashed stuff I'd personally like to see some of the current settings covered in more detail. If you think back to RQIII then River of Cradles, Strangers in Prax, Sun County and Shadows on The Borderland all provided much more richness and depth to an already well understood setting. So take Ralios or Fronela and give it this treatment. I'd prefer this to a book sketching out Teshnos or Vithela or so on.