This one kinda has slipped out due to an internet store listing all the upcoming releases. Although Matt Sprange, head honcho of Mongoose Publishing, said there would be more information in his State of the Mongoose address later this month, the following is what online retailers FRP games has said about the releases so far;
Entitled Greg Stafford, Mythmaker, this interview by Allen Varney rather than focusing on Glorantha it looks at his career overall and the influence of his Shamanistic beliefs on game’s design. Oh and there’s a postscript with a full explaination and photo of the tatoo he has on his arm.
Issue 3 cover by John Ossoway
Preorders have now shipped, so I’m now releaseing Hearts in Glorantha issue 3 into the wild.
92 pages for £8 +P&P for the printed version, £5 for the print quality pdf, available via our Lulu store (http://stores.lulu.com/d101games) it contains the following articles:
Poisonthorn Forest
One of the two groups of Dorestor Elves detailed by Shannon Appelcline.
Within the Poisonthorn
Creatures of Poisonthorn by Shannon Appelcline.
Iron
A look at this magical Gloranthan metal by Jane Williams.
Not Plunder
A series of short flavoursome pieces of equipment by Stewart Stansfield
Wonderous Statues
Two plunder items by John Harding.
Chaos Competition Top 10
Results of the recent Gloranthan Community competition.
The Three Legs of Vice
Details of the Lunar Imperial Army ‘supplies’ by Stewart Stansfield.
The Dragonsnail a part of the Devil
An in-depth look at these Chaos creatures by John Harding.
Uphold the Yellow Standard
Dara Happan morality by Newt Newport.
The Tomb of the Empty Emperor
A D100 ‘Gloranthan Heresy’Adventure by Newt Newport.
Casting a Spell
Part 3 of Greg Stafford’s ‘How to do Magic’ series.
Undersea Adventures feature
We all live in a Brass Submarine
An epic HeroQuest Dwarf adventure from Gemborg to Prax via the
Middle sea by Richard Crawley.
Monsters of Magasta
Ten sea monsters for RuneQuest and HeroQuest by Nick Davison.
Hearts in Glorantha issue 3 is nearly amongst us!
I’m running a pre-order up until Sunday 30th of August. Books will then ship the following week, wc Monday 7th September.
£6 +p&p (£2 UK/£3 Europe/ £4 Rest of the World) for a Printed copy and FREE Pdfs (print quality & ebook versions) of the issue.
Yup its been a bit quite round here, and I’m almost out of Summer to release what is meant to be the Summer 2009 issue. Rest assured that HiG#3 is imminently nearing conclusion and should be going to proof this week, which means a release date in the last week of this month.
In the mean time here’s the back cover with some awesome colour art from Xavier Llobet
Once again Jon Hodgson, cover artist for HeroQuest 2 and numerous other pro RPG books, comes up with the goods for D101 (see The Savage North and Monkey for other covers) with this stonking cover for Gloranthan Adventures 1.
Tom Zunder treasurer of Furnace, an excellent little con in the North of England held every October which is very supportive of Glorantha/HeroQuest, has just let me know eight spare copies of the Furnace 2008 Con book are now on sale on ebay.
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=140328747989
Amoungst all the gaming related goodness is a couple of Gloranthan articles by myself and Jane Williams.
25% goes to Water Aid (the Con’s chossen charity) and the rest goes towards helping the con itself.
Just in case you wondered I’ve moved the Hearts in Glorantha blog to my d101games.co.uk domain. This is what triggered the resending of all the comments and posts by feedburner.com for those of you subscribed via email.
If you are viewing this by rss feed you shouldn’t have any disruption to service, since the feed has always been redirected via feedburner.com (a lovely free service you should look into if you run a blog).
Just for completeness the blog is now hosted at
http://heartsinglorantha.d101games.co.uk
Stay tuned part 1 of the HeroQuest 2 preview any second now.
If you are going to Tentacles and want a copy of either the HQ 2 book or Sartar book, pop over to the Moon Designs blog and let Jeff Richard know via a comment.
Lots of info coming out of Moon Designs, publishers of HeroQuest 2.
First off the big one. HeroQuest 2 has a world wide release date of July 1st. If you are going to Tentacles, or have a friend who is, you can pick up a copy there.
Second. The Sartar book has been submitted for editing. This 375 page monster of a book covers everything you want to know about the Orlanthi of the Kingdom of Sartar and even finds room for an epic 100 page adventure (which would probably be 200 pages if it didn’t use the new HQ2 statless approach). The author Jeff Richard has very kindly sent me a copy so I’ll be doing a preview here once I’ve digested its contents.
Third. You’ll never be short of updates on Moon Designs’ activity, since its new Creative Director Jeff Richard has started up a Live Journal. Lots more news on what is in the pipeline for HQ2 Glorantha can be found there
