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Post Posted: Tue Aug 11, 2015 3:26 am 
 

I would support pdfs of Worlds of Wonder and Gloranthan material.  I would also ask, if there are no license issues, for the release of the Elfquest line.  It was my first attempt at GMing (didn't go well!) plus the comic collections have recently been released in new massive digest forms so the timing is appropriate.
  

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Post Posted: Tue Aug 11, 2015 2:40 pm 
 

The board games White Bear & Red Moon/Dragon Pass and Nomad Gods would be great to see re-issued. Also, if the third game could ever see print, Masters of Luck and Death (Holy Country) it would be awesome. This with Sandy's Gods War is my Holy Grail of Glorantha non-RPG gaming. I like the Oriflam editions I own, but that is not the same.

I second the reprinting of Wyrm's Footnotes. It would be nice to see a professional official Glorantha zine. Maybe continuing with Wyrm's Footnotes #16.

It would be nice to see the old Source/Scenario Packs reprinted, possibly in one volume. And Trollpak!

I suspect Different Worlds may be more of an issue with contacting authors.

Is there any chance of the rights to the Avalon Hill releases being acquired by Chaosium? At least the Gloranthan material (Gods of Glorantha, Gloranthan Bestiary, Glorantha: Genertela, Crucible of the Hero Wars, Into the Troll Realms, Troll Gods, Elder Secrets, The Haunted Ruins, Sun County, River of Cradles, Dorastor, Shadows on the Borderland, Strangers in Prax, Lords of Terror). A version of the Dragon Pass(boardgame) map would be awesome!

I would love to have PDF versions of my old books. I would gladly pay for a legal PDF.
  

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Post Posted: Tue Aug 11, 2015 5:14 pm 
 

I would definitely buy Worlds of Wonder if it was available in hardback. Probably would spring for RQ2 as well.

I'm even more interested in an update, based on BRP, as TrippyHippy was describing--expanded rules, ala Magic World, for Super World, Future World, etc.
  

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Post Posted: Tue Aug 11, 2015 8:29 pm 
 

tarashnat wrote in Chaosium shake up:The board games White Bear & Red Moon/Dragon Pass and Nomad Gods would be great to see re-issued. Also, if the third game could ever see print, Masters of Luck and Death (Holy Country) it would be awesome. This with Sandy's Gods War is my Holy Grail of Glorantha non-RPG gaming. I like the Oriflam editions I own, but that is not the same.

It would be nice to see the old Source/Scenario Packs reprinted, possibly in one volume. And Trollpak!

I suspect Different Worlds may be more of an issue with contacting authors.

Is there any chance of the rights to the Avalon Hill releases being acquired by Chaosium? At least the Gloranthan material (Gods of Glorantha, Gloranthan Bestiary, Glorantha: Genertela, Crucible of the Hero Wars, Into the Troll Realms, Troll Gods, Elder Secrets, The Haunted Ruins, Sun County, River of Cradles, Dorastor, Shadows on the Borderland, Strangers in Prax, Lords of Terror). A version of the Dragon Pass(boardgame) map would be awesome!

I would love to have PDF versions of my old books. I would gladly pay for a legal PDF.


Reprinting WB&RM or Nomad Gods or MoLaD would be both time consuming and expensive, so those would probably have to be Kickstarter projects.
Other RQ2 scenarios, including Trollpak are on our reprints list.
Different Worlds is something I would have to investigate with Tadashi Ehara.
All Gloranthan RQ3 rights are ours. We might reprint some of those.


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Post Posted: Sat Aug 15, 2015 1:03 am 
 

Yay another forum..
Regarding reprints, interest and such.
As chaosium/ moon design has rights to the rq3 source items;
A compilation of sun county, strangers in prax, etc would be interesting as just a PDF.
A rework of stats would be useful but clearly not something for a niche collector piece, and what rule system would it have to be rewritten for, at this point anyway?
A new Wyrm's footprint companion compilation of old not covered topics wouldn't go amiss either as well as the old standard RQ2 in at least PDF or POD.

All in all though, while reprints would be nice, new material such as the sartar books are really something desirable but with HQ and RQ( pick your poison#) dual stat ups are likely the way to go.
Harrak the berserk and the west come to mind as well a 1st Age saga of Nysalor/Arkat's world for use in games similar to what MRQ tried to do for the 2nd Age.

Bare minimum point is that any reprints of hard to find source materials as well as new settings for thought would be welcome as Strangers in Prax was welcome during the AH days.

Anyways, thanks Rick for grabbing the dragon by the tail.i don't envy you the ride.
  

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Post Posted: Tue Aug 25, 2015 7:21 pm 
 

Just wondering if anyone else is still waiting on their first package of Orient Express from Chaosium - other than me?
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Post Posted: Sat Aug 29, 2015 12:06 pm 
 

Good news - my kickstarter order finally arrived.
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Post Posted: Sat Aug 29, 2015 1:55 pm 
 

Mars - did you notice the cost to ship that box to Canada?
Sure explains part of the Chaosium financial difficulties.
The box that arrived at my house in New Brunswick cost them over $60 US to ship.


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Post Posted: Sat Aug 29, 2015 10:54 pm 
 

Yes the shipping was crazy.  I think they must have initially had a plan to do what they did for other countries - send a container of them and then ship smaller packages within the country.  But then the whole thing fell apart.  At the time I made my Kickstarter pledge, I emailed them specifically asking about extra shipping to Canada and they said no extra charge.  I'm sure my order was one of the last simply because they were losing money on it.
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Post Posted: Tue Sep 29, 2015 3:49 am 
 

Latest news from the Chaosium: Some Q&A about what's happening with BRP...

So, 32 pages - does this mean WoW is the new "Essentials"? PDT_Armataz_01_01

But if so, please consider sticking with WoW for the name!

On other matters, any updates on the back catalogue PDFs?


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