From runequest Wed May 5 12:26:17 1993 From news@glorantha Sat May 1 17:16:14 1993 Return-Path:Received: from Holland.Sun.COM (sunnl) by homeland.Holland.Sun.COM (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA01102; Sat, 1 May 93 17:16:13 +0200 Received: from glorantha.Holland.Sun.COM by Holland.Sun.COM (4.1/SMI-4.1e) id AA02018; Sat, 1 May 93 17:15:38 +0200 Received: by glorantha.Holland.Sun.COM (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA17025; Sat, 1 May 93 17:15:12 +0200 Date: Sat, 1 May 93 17:15:12 +0200 Message-Id: <9305011515.AA17025@glorantha.Holland.Sun.COM> From: RuneQuest-Request@Glorantha.Holland.Sun.COM (RQ Digest Maintainer) To: RuneQuest@Glorantha.Holland.Sun.COM (Daily automated RQ-Digest) Reply-To: RuneQuest@Glorantha.Holland.Sun.COM (RuneQuest Daily) Subject: RuneQuest Daily, Sat, 01 May 1993, part 1 Precedence: junk Status: OR This is the automated Daily RuneQuest Digest. Send submissions only to "RuneQuest@Glorantha.Holland.Sun.COM", they will automatically be included in a next issue. Try to change the ~Subject: line from the default Re: RuneQuest Daily... on replying. Selected articles may also appear in a regular Digest. If you want to submit articles to the Digest only, contact the editor at RuneQuest-Digest-Editor@Glorantha.Holland.Sun.COM. -Henk Langeveld -- Send Submissions to: Enquiries to: The RuneQuest Daily is a spin-off of the RuneQuest Digest and deals with the subjects of Avalon Hill's RPG and Greg Stafford's world of Glorantha. Maintainer: Henk.Langeveld@Sun.COM --------------------- ~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 --------------------- ~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) -------------------------------------------------------------------- tzunder@cix.compulink.com.uk How Illuminating! -------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------- ~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 --------------------- ~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 --------------------- ~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 --------------------- ~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.