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~From: seh0@aberystwyth.ac.uk
~Subject: Last notes on Cernein
Message-ID: <9304301628.AA08127@deca.aber.ac.uk>
~Date: 30 Apr 93 18:28:58 GMT
Tom, if you note a few things.....
a) As I believe it is noted in the cult description, Cernein is worshipped in
areas where the elf population is traditionally low. The bulk of the membership
is human (with the occassional dragonewt....Thalran....ever seen a dragonewt with
a Davy Crockett hat on???).
b) It isn't Aldrya, it's different! The cult has its own culture, its own beliefs.
This is how RQ2 has always felt to me, that while cults may cover the same fields,
there is enough difference in the culture to justify a variety of cults. Consider
Catholicism/Anglicanism. Same territory, different methods.
c) It has a touch of light relief.
Should have "The Essence of the Dragon" coming through soon, a player handout on
the Dragonewt Dream.
S'long for now
Stephen M Hunt
Better Red Than Dead
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~From: tzunder@cix.compulink.co.uk (Tom Zunder)
~Subject: sales
Message-ID:
~Date: 30 Apr 93 17:59:41 GMT
I don't expect AH to post their sales figures but it worries me that SC
and RoC haven't sold. I am a longstanding RQ ref but I do enjoy the stuff
in both. I think entry level stuff is important. I am using the entry level
stuff to introduce a group of 12 year olds to the game. I may be over the
hill but my players aren't.
(God knows how it'll go, they have only played Warhammer 40k before)
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How Illuminating!
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~From: ccwf@ugcs.caltech.edu (Charles C. Fu)
~Subject: Boxed sets, cult books, and CD-ROMs
Message-ID: <9304302019.AA21829@beyond.ugcs.caltech.edu>
~Date: 30 Apr 93 06:19:41 GMT
I am glad other people like my idea of separate cults booklets. Maybe that
means it actually has some chance of being adopted. :-)
True, dividing existing scenario packs into more units increases the likelihood
they'll wind up as boxed sets. However, I think many of sets can just be sold
wrapped in cellophane, possibly with the cult booklet(s) inside the main
scenario booklet. But I happen to like boxed sets, so I am biased.
Also, having separate cult booklets allows people to buy the cult booklet
separately via mail order (or perhaps from an accomodating retail outlet). I
don't know if AH would consider this good or bad, however. Many RQII die-hards
might then buy the cult booklets who otherwise would not buy anything at all,
but others who would have bought whole scenario packs would then buy only cult
write-ups. If it became a serious economic problem, AH could always refuse to
sell individual components. Also, AH should revise its pricing on the boxes in
boxed sets. It should not be significantly cheaper to buy all the components of
a boxed set sans the box. It just doesn't make financial sense to me. I suppose
the price in the price lists are based on the actual cost to make the
components; if so, the cost of making a box is just way out of proportion to
its actual usefulness.
Adrian Brownlow said that he thought that having rules on CD-ROM would be good
"as long as thereis[sic] a version for the Mac", :-) although he, and I suspect
most others, could make do if there weren't. Are Mac CD-ROMs incompatible with
PCs? I know that PCs and UNIX boxes tend to use the same CD-ROM formats. If
they are all compatible, then the rules could simply be published in ASCII
format (with any pictures in separate files). All machines could read them, and
the user could index them with the indexing application of his choice if not
satisfied with the on-line ASCII index. Seriously, however, I would not make a
CD-ROM if I were AH. It's just too open to abuse.
-ccwf
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~From: JOVANOVIC@CUCCFA.CCC.COLUMBIA.EDU
~Subject: RQ Font
Message-ID: <930430171145.11a30@CUCCFA.CCC.COLUMBIA.EDU>
~Date: 30 Apr 93 13:11:45 GMT
For those of you that might be interested, I recently uploaded
copies of my RQ Font to Shannon Appel's RuneQuest ftp site
(soda.berkeley.edu). I've also uploaded it to the Gaming
Company Support area on AOL, which not everyone has access to.
The font is available in Macintosh, IBM PC and NeXT formats, in
both Postscript and Truetype formats for the Mac and IBM.
Documentation is included.
The font consists of high quality depictions of all the published
RQ runes that I'm aware of, as well as some runes for the phases
of the moon.
If you have any problems getting to them, questions, comments,
etc., feel free to send email.
Oliver Jovanovic
jovanovic@cuccfa.ccc.columbia.edu
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~From: wroberts@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (William C Robertson)
~Subject: Yet another piece of advice for Avalon Hill
Message-ID:
~Date: 30 Apr 93 13:57:26 GMT
Yesterday somebody mentioned that RQ products were so dismal for so
long that the big magazines stopped reviewing them. Thus, new products
are not being reviewed, and not getting enough exposure. This is all too
true, and in my opinion the only way to remedy this situation is to
ADVERTISE. RuneQuest needs more exposure, people need to know about
Glorantha and how great it is. I'm talking about REAL advertising, not
advertinsing in an Avalon Hill house magazine. Think about it, spend the
money.
On a more positive note: The previous two years that I've attended
CapCon (trivia -- where is that held?) I've asked people about RuneQuest
only to be scoffed at, shunned, and mocked. This year, however, I was
undaunted, and I talked several people into playing, and there were
several more who were interested. Obviously, luck and coincidence play a
big part in this, BUT I beleive that the release of two quality products
within the last year(?) have helped the reputation of the game.
$0.02
Bill
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~From: twilight@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au (Robert Prowse)
~Subject: Request for information
Message-ID: <9305010302.AA20632@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au>
~Date: 1 May 93 23:02:13 GMT
hi.
Could you please send me some information
about this service.