Rough Guide to Glamour 1997, 2020

Welcome to Glamour! This booklet is designed primarily to be useful background for Reaching Moon Megacorp’s Life of Moonson freeform. First run at GloranthaCon V

A Rough Guide to Glamour is your indispensable companion for any visit to the capital city of the greatest empire the world of Glorantha has ever known!

• A comprehensive map, gazetteer and guidebook detailing the capital of the Lunar Empire;
• Portraits and descriptions of eleven Very Important People who can be encountered there, including Moonson, the Red Emperor, and the Lunar hero Jar-eel the Razoress;
• A description and map of the Sultanate of the Silver Shadow, the throbbing heart of the empire;
• Sweeping overviews of the geography and history of the Lunar Empire;
• RuneQuest writeups for the cults of the Red Emperor, the immortal wizard-ruler of the Lunar Empire, and the goddess Glamour, the humble nymph who became the First Inspiration of Moonson;
• Insights into the secrets of Kalikos Icebreaker, the Lunar College of Magic and the Imperial Monopolies of the Etyries cult;
• Never-republished supporting material from the legendary fanzine Tales of the Reaching Moon;
• Rumours, fiction, poetry, and more besides!

This is a thoroughly revised and expanded edition of the original Rough Guide to Glamour.

• 1997 edition
• Editor & Publisher: David Hall
• Graphic Design: Rick Meints
• Authors: Nick Brooke, CV Gidlow, Kevin Jacklin, Mike Hagen, David Hall, Michael O’Brien, Sandy Petersen, & Greg Stafford.
• Maps: Phil Anderson and Juili Hudson.
• Front cover: Juili Hudson.
• Interior artwork: Simon Bray, Dario Corallo and Juili Hudson.

• Publisher: Reaching Moon Megacorp
• 42 pages
• Softcover only
• ISBN 1-898190-05-4

• 2020 edition, updated and revised
• Layout and design: Nick Brooke
• Authors: Chris Gidlow, Mike Hagen, Nick Brooke, Michael O’Brien, Jeff Richard, Greg Stafford & friends.
• Cartography: Julie Hudson, Mike Hagen, Colin Driver & Phil Anderson.
• Front cover: Dario Corallo & Julie Hudson
• Art: Dario Corallo, Simon Bray, Antonia Doncheva, Julie Hudson, BA Wayne, Dan Barker & Gene Day.

• Publisher: Jonstown Compendium
• 111 pages
• PDF, Hardcover

• 1997 edition
• Introduction
• Glamour: First Inspiration of Moonson
• The City of Dreams
• A Gazetteer of Glamour
• Map of Glamour
• A Rough Guide to Glamour
• Lunar “Dart Competitions”
• Recent History in Life of Moonson
• The Kalikos Expedition
• Very Important People in Glamour
• An Indissoluble Union
• Map of the Lunar Empire
• The Lunar New Year Ceremony
• A Brief History of the Lunar Empire
• The Lunar Pantheon
• The Story of the Moon Goddess Jaxarte and the Emperor
• Aerial View of Glamour

• 2020 edition, updated and revised
• Forward by Jeff Richard
• City of Glamour by Chris Gidlow
  • Map: Outer Glamour
• Gazetteer to Glamour
• Jaxarte & the Emperor
• The Rough Guide to Glamour
  • Let’s Speak New Pelorian!
  • Major Holidays & Festivals
• Very Important People
• The Son of Light Awakens
• The Antiquities of Old Glamour
• Sultanate of the Silver Shadow
  • Map: Silver Shadow Sultanate
• An Indissoluble Union
  • Map: The Lunar Empire
• Yolanela Spurned
• A Brief History of the Lunar Empire
• The Cult of the Red Emperor
• Lunar Government
• Pelorian Rhapsody
• The Cult of Glamour
• Red Empire
• Heroes & Heroines of the Lunar Empire
• The Kalikos Expedition
• The Annual Dinner
• Letter from a Monopolist
• Moonson’s Number Two