Chaosium’s Warehouse Sale

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Chaosium (publishers of Call of Cthulu, RuneQuest, 7th Sea etc) are having a warehouse clearance sale, with items being 15% to 66% off.

Here’s a list of stuff I personally recommend.

Alone Against the Flames, A solo Call of Cthulhu adventure. Learn how to play CoC 7th edition for the price of a coffee. SOLD!

HP Lovecraft’s Dunwich  A Call of Cthulhu Sandbox, with a couple of supporting adventures. I had this in the 90s and foolishly let it go, but by gum, its mine again at a bargain price

RuneQuest Classic. A cleaned-up version of RuneQuest 2, without losing the original’s essential charm, with about 22 extra pages from magazines from the period, in a robust hardback. This is my Whitebox.

Borderlands and Beyond. Want a starting campaign for RQ? This is it. This is a collected edition, Borderlands + 2 other supplements integrated with new art from fan favourites. I had the pleasure of buying from Rick Meints, the publisher, at a convention in the 2000s.

13th Age Glorantha. Want to get into Glorantha, but overwhelmed by RQ and have a group that is more into D&D? This is your way of getting your Glorantha fix. Also worth getting if you are an old hand since it positively purrs in play 🙂

Khan of Khans. The easy to play card game intro to Glorantha. I played this with our H when he was around eight, he came away wanting to know more about Glorantha. Result!

 

OpenQuest 3rd Edition is Now Out!

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OQ 3 is now on general release after being sent out to Kickstarter Backers and pre-orders.

You can get it in pdf and Print with free pdf from my web store.

The print version I’m selling there until it sells out is the last of the Signed and Sent version that was offered to Kickstarter backers. It has sewn pages, endpapers, colour plates and a ribbon.  Stocks are already running low.

Here’s a quick run-through.

If you have a previous edition and are curious about what has changed, I created this page for you.

Also, its gone on sale via drivethrurpg.com

The Kickstarter funded a number of supplements and the planned list of books and progress on them can be found on this page.

RuneQuest Starter Box Incoming

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Just in time for the summer holidays, Chaosium’s RuneQuest box set is incoming.  This is where my holiday money is going, rather than the Call of Cthulhu Classic Box Set Kickstarter. Because to be honest while I played a bit of CoC in my teens, it was RQ that I fell for hard!.

So let the dulcet tones of Chaosium President Rick Meint guide through his unboxing of a still wrapped copy of the Starter Set.

Why I like Original D&D, even though it wasn’t my first D&D

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I like Original D&D (aka OD&D or Zero Edition D&D) with all the supplements, as gathered together in the Swords and Wizardry retroclone. It’s nice and simple, so I can easily hold its rulings in my head and easily expandable. It was also the system that all my favourite adventures from White Dwarf used originally. Adventures like the Lichway and The Halls of Tizun Thane. Although I encountered them in the Best of White Dwarf reprints in the late 80s, when they had been updated to AD&D 1st with a rather embarrassed note from the editor that they had only done it to keep up with the current rules.

My own gaming history is that I got B/EX D&D first, picked up AD&D 1st next. So when I got S&W in the early 2000s that was my first exposure to OD&D the game my inspirations (Ian Livingstone, Steve Jackson, Albie Florie, Graham Davis, Graham Morris etc) were playing and being inspired by.

OD&D inspires and guides, not directs like later editions, which I think is important.

My  haul from the Swords and Wizardry Kickstarter

Bundle of Holding Mythras

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Lawrence Whitaker posted this on BRP Central about the latest Mythras Bundle of Holding.

Mythras is once again the featured system over at Bundle of Holding, with some seriously spectacular deals on Mythras PDFs. This time around the Bundle consists of a Starter Collection (Mythras, Mythras Companion, Monster Island, Two Mythras Combat Training Modules) and the Bonus Collection – which contains Lyonesse (and two scenarios), Luther Arkwright, and the epic Arkwright campaign, Parallel Lines.

The price just can’t be beaten: just $7.95 for the Starter Collection, but if you pay a little more and meet (or beat) the Threshold Price, then the Bonus Collection is yours too.

There is no better way to get into both Mythras and the amazing worlds of Jack Vance and Bryan Talbot than through this Bundle of Holding deal. And as Lyonesse is a self-contained game, it represents astonishing value.

The Mythras Bundle of holding runs until Monday 14th June, and 10% of all proceeds go towards Direct Relief, a charity that ensures protective equipment and critical care medications get to key health workers across the US and the rest of the world

I recently had the pleasure of talking to Lawrence Whitaker about Mythras, and upcoming releases for the game.

OpenQuest 3rd Edition Now Available to Pre-Order

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I’m pleased to say that the main OpenQuest 3 rulebook is done and off to print proof, so it’s time to open up a pre-order.

I’ve set up two options for pre-ordering OpenQuest 3rd Edition if you missed last year’s Kickstarter.

OpenQuest 3 Signed and Sent (£25) – Better quality print, ribbons, endpapers, and five colour plates, signed by myself and sent directly to you.

OpenQuest 3 Print on Demand (£10) – Print on Demand via drivethrurpg.com.

Both come with immediate pdf downloads of the book, along with the OpenQuest Quick-Start: The Lost Outpost.  Also when it is ready you will also receive at no extra cost the OpenQuest Companion in PDF and at cost Print on Demand.  Also, purchase of either of these entitles you to buy a selection of Add-ons that were available to Kickstarter backers.

This pre-order closes on Sunday, May 9th 2021.

The Lost Outpost – The OpenQuest Quickstart

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I am pleased to say the free pdf version of the OpenQuest 3rd Edition Quick-Start, the Lost Outpost is now available.

This pdf is designed to get players and Referees up and playing OpenQuest, with the minimum of preparation.

It contains the following sections.

  • Characters. A rundown of what an OpenQuest character is made up of, both in terms of numbers and concepts.
  • Quick Rules. A concise version of the OpenQuest rules, enough to play the adventure.
  • Combat. The rules for physical combat.
  • Magic. The basic approach to magic, known as Personal Magic.
  • The Lost Outpost. An introductory adventure set in OpenQuest’s example setting, the Empire of Gatan.
  • A set of six pre-made characters. Players should pick one and get ready to play.

Here’s the cover by Jonny Gray.

The Lost Outpost, art by Jonny Gray

Grogzilla 2 on Kickstarter now!

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I’m back for ZineQuest 3, with Grogzilla issue 2 which funded twelve hours after its launch.  It has got a mini adventure for Crypts and Things, a short introductory article for Monkey the RPG, with the big feature being The Duck Crusade a one-shot adventure with premade characters for OpenQuest.

If you missed out on the OpenQuest 3 Kickstarter, there’s an opportunity to get hold of the book, either as a POD copy or the Signed and Sent print copy, plus the first supplement The OpenQuest Companion as an add-on.

The Kickstarter is only open for two weeks until March 10th.