I find that a very odd statement. You mean that Team Issaries are monitoring the auction prices of Griffin Mountain, and deciding "$100? Way too little, let's wait until it hits $200, _then_ reprint it." (Yes, I know this is gross parody of any actual Chaosium attitude, and ignores several inconvenient facts about the practicalities of such a reprint (or revamping, as it would have to be).)
I don't want to condone industrial-scale use of Rank Xerox's products in any way whatsoever, but I have to say the tenor of some of the comments advocating the Standard Line a tad discouraging. There are only an all-too-finite number of copies of the RQ Companion and Big Rubble around, and it is a long, long way from being a satisfactory situation for the number of Gloranfans able to have 'em to be bounded above by this figure. I know, we only wish that this was an immediate problem in practice...
(On the other hand, this would be a pretty good time to be buying up seminal RQ_3_ products, particularly anyone out there bereft of GoG or G:G, lest we be having this discussion some way down the line about _them_...)
I do agree that there have been some remarkably intemperate comments from the "other side" of this flamefest -- but then again, they're the ones with something material to gripe about. And let he who is without stain of toner on his fingers cast the first writ.
> * We've made some items available on our web site:
And are to be applauded for having done so. (If you're all very good boys and girls, you might even get to see some of _my_ highly suspect HTML coding -- isn't that something to look forward to? ;-) (Just don't ask _me_ when, incidentally.))
> Many items are not available, because we don't want to limit
> ourselves from ever printing new copies of that particular material.
Which that would hardly do, other than via stream-of-consciousness guesses as to how much this might hit sales of a reprint (which I presume is also the thinking behind the photocopying comment). I don't think it's safe to assume people won't buy such things, on the basis of their behaviour when they don't have a chance to. One could also say the same about the second hand RQ2 market; theoretically it hits potential reprint sales, and in any case does Chaosium no financial good at all (not they they can do anything about it though, even theoretically, which is only slightly different from the Extremely Little they can do about "bootleg" Pavises).
There's a certain contradiction in simultaneously implying: this stuff's not so great anyway; buy it at $100 a throw; wait for the reprint; it's on the web -- though granted, some truth in all the above. <Add 0.0001% to Illumination chance.>
Oh, and the comments about the Essentialness of most of the RQ2 stuff are pretty accurate. Now that 14/15 of CoP has been RQ3'd, and the stuff on the web, and things of that ilk, you really _can_ live without most this this paleolithic material. About the worst likely effect is that it might lead to the occassional Peremptory Metcalfing if one strays from the Holy Country Facts of RQC or some such, but frankly, that happens to most of us who have the material anyway... (Only kidding there Pete, put the blowtorch down!) Gimme the Entekosiad over Runemasters any day of the week -- and twice on Saturdays.
Joel Pratt, topically enough hawking RQ2 stuff, .sigs: > "Bill Clinton does not have the moral fiber to be a mass murderer." > -- Nobel Peace Prize recipient Dr. Henry Kissinger, Spring 1997
Who being an accessory before the fact to mass murder, ought to know, one supposes.
And at last, some ObGlorantha! -- SPetersen_at_ensemblestudios.com:
> 3) Darkfoil -- a nightblooming flower that glows when near creatures of > chaos or darkness. Not only a good detection system, but also handy as a > lightsource, if you happen to be a creature of chaos or darkness.
*chortle!* Anyone else just get a great image of a large troll with a flower-pot on his head?
> Most Jelmres die totally emotionless and stoic.
Hang on, that can't be right, since stoicism _is_ a Jelmre emotion. ;-)
A big Gloranthan Bestiary Fan:
Alex.
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