Its all part of Moon Design’s reboot of the Gloranthan setting after the release of HeroQuest 2, and its a big chunk of Glorantha detailing the Orlanthi of Dragon pass, their lifestyle, character gen, clan generator, cults and magic and a 100 pages of epic adventure. Take it from me this is a pick up and play book, both in the sense that a newcomer could grasp it and play it with their group and in the fact that all the stuff is there in one place for us old hands to grasp. Oh and its copiously and gloriously illustrated with COLOUR MAPS!
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.
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.
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.
Ok here we go onto the nuts and bolts of the system, starting with character generation
The chapter starts up with a overview of the sort of Parameters (Setting, Mode, and Premise) that a Narrator can use to set up a game of HeroQuest. This is so the players are on the same page of as the Narrator and also to show the sort of games that HeroQuest can deal with. It might be teaching old hands to suck eggs, but for new players and narrators coming to the game from a more combat orientated game such as D&D it does give considerable food for thought. Read the rest of this entry »
