MShipley88 wrote:I wonder if you have any recall of the early versions of Stormbringer.The first box was two inches thick. The second box was a one inch box and the contents had been combined in a single book.As far as I can tell, the two versions were published very close together.Can you recall why the change between editions, or any other details?
MShipley88 wrote:Elric! is treated as an entirely separate game from Stormbringer.
Interesting to find that there was such a gap between the first two versions of the game. I know of at least one alternative booklet...but the version I am thinking of was French, and so might have been very different indeed.
One piece of information that eludes me is why Chaosium did not continue publishing the D20 version of their game. They put out Dragon Lords of Melnibone and Slaves of Fate, and then abandoned Straits of Chaos and Cults of Law and Chaos before publication.
Then, in the very same year (2001), Chaosium put out a fifth edition of Stormbringer, which they almost immediately ceased supporting.
Beyondthebreach wrote:Sorry, I don't have a pic, but Pendragon 2nd edition does exist. It contains 3 books in a box set. Book's are entitled: Squire's book, Knight's book and King's book. Also came with dice.
ShannonA wrote:Have you actually touched a copy? I've never seen one here in the Bay Area, or even in Chaosium's archive, so my guess has long been "no". What you describe, however, is definitely what the 2nd edition was supposed to contain.Greg thinks it might have been swallowed up by the Chaosium decision to step away from boxes due to the labor issues of collation.
How did the idea for a Call of Cthulhu RPG come about? (I mean, when I say a "Call of Cthulhu RPG" it makes me wonder what I'll be doing besides burning all the books, running away from things and refusing to read the notes of missing professors.) What was your first thought when the idea was presented?
How did Chaosium acquire the license for such a huge literary phenomenon? Was it negotiated directly with Arkham House?
(And, did the people at Arkham house have scary voices or extra appendages?)
There must be some potential for real problems in dealing with a writing project shared by so many well-known and little-known authors...?
How does a company like Chaosium decide what to do next with such a successful publishing project as the Call of Cthulhu RPG?
Also, do you have any recollection of average print runs for some of those editions and modules?
Hi Greg, out of curiosity, are you gonna go to SoCal GenCon this year?
Does Pendragon second edition exist? Seems pretty simple on the surface. It makes sense that after first edition would come second edition, before moving on to third. Except that the only reference to it is in the Noble's Book, and I can't find any information about it in Net searching...
I have some question about Different Worlds: why did Chaosium decide to publish its own magazine?
Was it successful?
What was the average print run of an issue, especially the later ones?
Why did DW left Chaosium along Tadashi Ehara? Was the split amicable?
Greg Stafford wrote: I'd forgotten about this until I read one of Shannon Applecline's essays. When we were testing a new Gloranthan boardgame I asked him, and he reminded me of the facts. I hate to contradict Beyondthebreach but, in fact, there is no real 2nd edition! We had intended to do one, being a boxed set with new organization. But that was right at the transition point where we shifted from boxing everything to having larger books. So even though Nobles Book says there would be such an edition, there was none, and so we went right from 1st to 3rd ed. Except for Nobles Book, which would have been part of the 2nd ed. Fortunately, it fit equally well with 1st and 3rd edition, and we forgot to fix the reference subsequent printings.
Beyondthebreach wrote:No problem contradicting me! I'm actually taking the info out of Heroic Worlds. Thanks for clarifying it.
Greg Stafford wrote:I am not sure why Tadashi departed from Chaosium. I believe that it had been his first post-graduation job, and that he had a better offer or opportunity elsewhere. No one at the company wanted to keep editing the magazine. It was easy to publish another supplement as a magazine, and a supplement would sell for a year or two, but a magazine is good only until its next issue. Tadashi wanted to keep the 'zine, and we were glad to let him. The departure was amicable.
dcas wrote:I think HW included a lot of stuff that was set to come out at the time the book went to press (but for whatever reason was never released). It listed RJK's City of Brass as being released through Creations Unlimited in 1987.