Hearts in Glorantha issue 3 now out!!

Posted on September 12, 2009 by Newt
Issue 3 cover by John Ossoway

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.

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Hearts in Glorantha issue 3 pre-order now open

Posted on August 25, 2009 by Newt

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.

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HiG#3 is coming soon!

Posted on August 12, 2009 by Newt

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
hig3-backcover-webpreview

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Gloranthan Adventures 1: Jon Hodgson does Orlanthi Windlords

Posted on July 7, 2009 by Newt

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.

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Furnace Con book on Ebay

Posted on June 22, 2009 by Newt

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.

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Glorantha 2nd Age Review

Posted on June 5, 2009 by Newt

If you’ve not yet checked out Mongoose’s Glorantha the Second Age book, here’s a frighteningly in-depth review of this marvellous book.

Glorantha the Second Age Review on Mythopedia blog.

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HeroQuest 2 preview pt 2: Character Generation

Posted on May 30, 2009 by Newt

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. Continue reading →

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HeroQuest 2 preview pt1: Overview

Posted on May 20, 2009 by Newt

At last after months of procrastinating on my part, here’s the second part of my HeroQuest 2 preview. Was it really back in October when I wrote the Introduction? My how time flies ;)

I’ve now got the final laid out with art Pdf courtesy of Jeff Richard from Moon Design.  This is the version that if you are going to Tentacles you’ll be able to pick up and will be available world wide July 1st.  I’m still going to still with this being a preview.  I find HeroQuest 2 is a complex beast and what I’m trying to do here is give you a quick run down of what’s in store. I’m going to try keep personal opinion to a minimum, but it may bleed out since I’m quite an opinionated guy :)

The basics

A Colour cover (by Jon Hodgson), black and white interior, 130 pages long

Contents of the book (taken directly from Tentacles Pdf with page numbers left in)

Introduction 5
Creating your Character 9
Character Creation Methods 15
Overcoming Obstacles 21
Modifiers 51
Hero Points 57
Relationships 60
Playing Stories 67
Narrating 77
Running Contests 79
Community Resources and Support 87
Gaming in Glorantha 107
Quick Reference 123
Index 127

Layout and presentation: Clear throughout and an easy read as a result.

Art: A mix of Gloranthan and generic art, mainly fantasy.

The main thing about HeroQuest 2 and how you see it is your expectations of what it is.  I struggled with this for a long time and it did colour my opinion of it initially, since depending on what I wanted out of the book on a particular day (us Newts are moody creatures you know) coloured how I viewed the book.

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We’ve moved!

Posted on May 20, 2009 by Newt

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.

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Tentacles HeroQuest 2 & Sartar book available to preorder

Posted on May 6, 2009 by Newt

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.

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