Hey, I've just got my hands on a copy of Ye Booke of Tentacles II, the second in a series of German RQ Con fund-raiser books. Here's Mr MOB's mini-review.
Great CGI cover from Dan Barker, whose showing he's a dab hand at electronic depictions of Uz. Nasty nipple-piercings though...
Range of articles inside, from Glorantha through to Cthulhu, Nephilim, Eternal Champion, Pendragon and Misc. Mostly Glorantha though; in fact, a great whack of the book details the Culbrea Tribe, by Martin Laurie and Patrik Sanberg. Lots of stuff to complement any Sartar campaign: worth gettin' your hands on the opus for this alone!
Some other articles of note include the entertaining German RQ Con Lore Auction transcript, some weird but gameable tales by Darvall, and more unfinished stuff from yet another Stafford work-in-progress. There's a real strange article on Gloranthan shells, and a running gag called "Glorantha's worst books" which seems to have lost something in the translation. If you're into rules-fixing, check out the swathe of useful articles on spirits, including Sandy's revised Shaman rules (which makes shamanism cool like it was in RQII) and Nick's cheerful ideas on spirit cults.
At the end of the book, Shannon Appel's "Adventure of the Reluctant Bride" is a superb Pendragon scenario that I've played and can heartily vouch for.
My personal contribution to Tentacles II is "The Men with the Golden Gun", more Sun Domer loopiness, this time the left-handed misfits who man the giant spear-thrower at Harpoon.
Tentacles II is highly recommended: available from wherever you usually get these sorts of things!
Cheers,
MOB PS Along with Mr Boatwright, I agree the recent post about WotC and the RPGA was of interest to this list, if only to read that one of the volunteer RPGA nuts is perceptively nicknamed "Sad".
Michael O'Brien
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End of The Glorantha Digest V7 #76
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