Have an Awesome day Sir!

• Kingdom of the Flame Sword on Jamie’s Malkioni web page.

Here’s what Jamie has to say about it:

Some of you may recall that, in addition to the Book of Glorious Joy, I was also commissioned by Issaries to write a similar book on Seshnela and the Rokari. That fell through, as ideas of what Seshnela should be changed. In the none-to-distant future, Issaries/Moon Design will be publishing the Guide to Glorantha which will include the new, canonical view of Seshnela, and we both agree that it’s important for any release of my material not to clash with that.

There was a hope that it might be published in some dead-tree format, but that’s all stalled, and I’ve had no reply to e-mails. So, since I do have permission from Issaries to post the material free-of-charge to my website (so long as certain legal disclaimers are included), and in the interests of not clashing with the release of official publications, that’s what I’ve done.

If you liked the Book of Glorious Joy, and wondered what I made of Seshnela, you can find my thoughts here. As always, the non-canonical nature of the work must be stressed, and no challenges to copyrights or trademarks are intended – this is just fan material, nothing more and nothing less. It will certainly be contradicted in official works, and, if that matters to you, this won’t be of much use. It’s also worth noting that at least some of it still written for HQ1, which was the current edition at the time, and may put some people off.

But otherwise – well, hopefully it will be useful to someone.

Gulp!

Time to get my skates on…………expect more previews imminently!

I’ve been visiting our cousins in D&D land. Did you get that postcard I sent you?  Its been an exciting time, and I will be disappearing off for wild weekends once in a while with my new friends in the OSR Blogsphere, but work must commence on Hearts in Glorantha #5 and Gloranthan Adventures #2!

Still working off the hangover from all that Old School Grog those fans of GaryGygax swill, but will post new stuff soon.

Have I missed anything?

All the Best

;O) Newt

• Return to Apple Lane

One thing I’d like to ask the Authors Greg Stafford & Jeff Richard,

WHERE’S TEH DUCKS!!!

Part 1 (5.56 mins) Covers: Introduction to Glorantha (HeroWars), The Glorious Reacent of Yelm The Fortunate Succession, The Entekosiad, Champions of the Red Moon.

Part 2 (7.16 mins) Covers: Shreads of Light and Reason, Dara Happa Stirs, Sun County, The Unspoken Word’s Map of the Lunar Empire.

Note to Gloranthan Pedants: Yup I may get some of the details, such as creditation, wrong but hey I was runnning from memory. I will post any corrections at the bottom of this post. Also yes I’m missing a few titles, they’re in storage at my mother’s at present

Note to Gloranthan New commers : Don’t worry you don’t need all these books to run/understand Red Sun Rising. I’m rereading them to make sure RSR is not too jarring with ‘accepted’ cannon and so I can slot in the fun bits

HiG issue 5 is well into production. I’ve already had some of the Art submitted, which I’ll preview soon, the cover is being worked on, the proofing is underway. Looking at a late November/early Dec release on this one.

Gloranthan Adventures #2 Red Sun Rising will be next up. I’m currently going through my draft and filling in the gaps and holes. To this end I got out a whole pile of books which cover or touch on the Lunar Empire.

And talking of reviews, its something I’ve been lax about of late so expect some of both official and fan publications in the coming weeks.

On this day of looking after sick kids and doing never ending rounds of dishwashing (oh how I miss our dishwasher!), I find my mind drawn to simpler times in my early ventures into Glorantha via Pavis & The Rubble back in ’88.

My character, a low skill ranked hoodlum laden with debt to the fighter’s guild whose name I forget, ran the streets in Pavis.  Without realising he ended up in an Orlanthi revolt, running for his life after dark evading Seven Mothers initiates. He escaped the city, only to find himself in entering the Rubble via the People’s gate in search of the fabled Balastor’s Barracks with only the clothes on his back and the sword in his hand.  He never got there, spotting a couple of Broo on the horizon he made the ill advised move of preparing his Bladesharp spell. While this magic gave him the edge in a bloody and savage fight, he was slain when he went to loot the bodies and was attacked by a disease spirit that one of the Broo’s was carrying.

Happy days

176 page book written by Jamie Revell, cover by Jon Hodgson, internal art by Peter Town, available in pdf ($15) , softcover ($30) and hardcover($40) from DriveThrurpg.com

• The Book of Glorious Joy

This Book gives an overview of the Gloranthan West before detailing the heroic Kingdom of Loskalm. Where adventurous souls seek the Joy of the Heart and rise from the rank of Peasant to the lofty heights of Wizard-Knight!

176 of playable material, including character generation, history, mythology, religions, cultural and magical information, for a setting that is very different from the standard published Gloranthan settings.

Comprising of two parts, made up of the following chapters.

Book 1. Heroes of Malkion

Introduction – Overview of the West
Keeping the Faith – Mythology, history and occupational keywords.
The Divine Word – An Overview of Western Magic.

Book 2. Wizard Knights

Overview of the Kingdom of Loskalm – It’s history, culture and major personalities.
The Idealist Church of Loskalm. A full write up of Loskalm’s religions.
Gazetterof Loskalm – A full guide to Loskalm and its provinces.
Commonly encountered Non Player Characters.
The Parish of Haut Ussle -an example community.