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At £20 for a softcover I could be tempted...
BTW will the Hellfrost prices at Dragonmeet match the website? |
Got a confirmation -- same price at Dragonmeet as our web store.
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| BTW will the Hellfrost prices at Dragonmeet match the website? |
Got a confirmation -- same price at Dragonmeet as our web store. |
And lo, the gods have cursed us. Angus has called to say customs (in the US I believe) have held up the container. This means the books won't hit the UK until Tuesday next week, too late for Dragonmeet.
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Shame... I was planning on starting to look at a Wordplay hack on the train back...
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This is very true. More than that, books like 'Storm Tribe' and 'Thunder Rebels' are a pain in the neck to use. I got both hoping to be able to really understand Sartar and emerged none the wiser. This new book aims to correct that. |
Oh no! Those two books sapped my enthusiasm for Glorantha for a long time! They're a testament in trade paperback format to pseudo intellectual pretentiousness, a percolate of mailing list para-anthropological nonsense, a monument to all that is unfun in rpg books, ornated with wooden engravings.
It took a healthy dose of Gloranthan Classics and Robin Law's very gameable Glorantha The 2nd Age book to fully restore the good feelings for the setting. But I still shiver when I hear 'Sartar'.
I see that the Orlanthi on the cover now look more like Celts in the Alps (Helvetii?) rather than Vikings. (I also cannot help to notice the boobs of the green clad priestess.)
Should I believe that everything has changed in Sartar?
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They were brilliant. I love Simon's woodcuts. The ones he did for 'The Durengard Scroll' were fabulous.
Shame about the rest of the book.
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They were brilliant. I love Simon's woodcuts. The ones he did for 'The Durengard Scroll' were fabulous.
Shame about the rest of the book. |
You know, I got carried through a little bit in expressing my feeling towards those books.  The woodcuts are not my cup of tea, but I don't particularly dislike them.
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Sorry for any slight thread necromancy. As someone is planning on getting Sartar when monies finally allow, can folk already in possession of said tome of Glorantha loveliness give any indication of specific contents with regard to the section on Upland Marsh? Is there much background? An expanded map? Adventure seeds? A Heroquest? It's always been a favorite area of mine and not being able to know the more specific content is killing me.
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| Sorry for any slight thread necromancy. As someone is planning on getting Sartar when monies finally allow, can folk already in possession of said tome of Glorantha loveliness give any indication of specific contents with regard to the section on Upland Marsh? Is there much background? An expanded map? Adventure seeds? A Heroquest? It's always been a favorite area of mine and not being able to know the more specific content is killing me. |
As part of the scenario part of the Sartar book there is a section that deals with the Howling Tower in the Upland Marsh.
There is a map of the marsh but more importantly the ways into the marsh are described including the dangers.
The heroes aren't facing Delecti directly but will be fighting off undead and vampires.
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Cheers, Darran!! Sounds like my main prayers have been answered by the Gods of Gaming.
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