HeroQuest Glorantha: coming to you in time for GenCon

[Jeff Richard]

So while we’ve been waiting for the Guide to Glorantha to return from the printer and preparing to get the website ready for preorders and pdf purchases, the rest of the Moon Design team have been hard at work on several semi-secret projects. We’re ready to announce the first: the new HeroQuest Glorantha book!

This is an updated and revised edition of the HeroQuest 2nd Edition rules that is designed to be the core rules book for play with Glorantha. It contains an introduction to Glorantha and the primary setting areas (Esrolia, Prax, Sartar, and Tarsh); how to create characters from those cultures; rules for Rune magic, spirit magic, sorcery, and Lunar magic; seven cult write-ups; community rules; heroquesting rules and examples; Gloranthan monsters; and an introductory adventure and suggestions on gaming in Glorantha. Plus lots and lots more.

HeroQuest Glorantha is intended to be THE book for using HeroQuest to game in Glorantha, a HeroQuest companion piece to the Guide to Glorantha (that nonetheless can be used without the Guide. It runs about 125,000 words (so is about 40% bigger than the original HeroQuest 2nd Edition rules).

I will be passing the document over to Rick to start layout at Eternal Convention and HeroQuest Glorantha should be ready in time for GenCon! We are unlikely to Kickstart this book, as I don’t really want to add new material to it (although we might KS a hardcover version later).

 

[Niall]

Great news. I now have a birthday present.

[Roko Joko]

What will it do for people who want to play games set outside of central Genertela? Does it flesh out spirit magic and wizardry as much as divine magic? So far the HQ2 rules for spirit magic and wizardry have been less detailed. Divine magic got cool rules for rune affinity keywords, with no equivalent or analog for the other approaches to magic. And no book has ever really said what heroquesting means in the context of spirit magic or wizardry.

[Jon Hancock]

Will you be offering the rules changes and clarifications (not the Gloranthan material, of course) as a download for owners of the current version?

[Jeff Richard]

Yes, that is the plan. And we will be keeping the current version of HeroQuest 2 available.

[Scott-A]

Do you know what the price point will be, approximately?

[Jon Hancock]

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Quote from Jeff Richard on May 27, 2014, 19:32
Yes, that is the plan. And we will be keeping the current version of HeroQuest 2 available.

That’s great, thank you.

[Jeff Richard]

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Quote from Scott Akers on May 27, 2014, 21:34
Do you know what the price point will be, approximately?

$30 or less.

[Runeblogger]

Is there going to be some kind of parallellism with the upcoming “Adventures in Glorantha” by The Design Mechanism for RuneQuest6? 🙂

It could be cool to have the two books about how to play HQ2/RQ6 in Glorantha. That would also be great to compare, for example, ready made PCs with both systems and therefore see how to best transform HQ2 scenarios into RQ6 and viceversa.

Although I really expect “Adventures in Glorantha” to provide guidelines to create any PC from anywhere in Glorantha, and not just Sartar, Esrolia, Tarsh and Prax. 🙂

[Runeblogger]

Also, will this book also include lots of wonderful gloranthan art?

[Michael Hitchens]

Great News. I’d join a KS for a hard cover version.
And for the two Sartar books and Pavis as well for that matter

[RippedShirtKirk]

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Quote from michaelh on May 31, 2014, 01:00
Great News. I’d join a KS for a hard cover version.
And for the two Sartar books and Pavis as well for that matter

I’m going to emphatically second this; I would sign up in a heartbeat for a hardcover edition of pretty much all of Moon Design’s releases. 😀

[Mark Beresford]

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Quote from James Lee on June 2, 2014, 00:01

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Quote from michaelh on May 31, 2014, 01:00
Great News. I’d join a KS for a hard cover version.
And for the two Sartar books and Pavis as well for that matter

I’m going to emphatically second this; I would sign up in a heartbeat for a hardcover edition of pretty much all of Moon Design’s releases. 😀

Likewise.

[Gerard Crowe]

Just like to add a “me too!” to this post.

Also, any idea when this book will be available in PDF format? I’ll order the soft copy as soon as it’s available, but I can’t make GenCon this year and would hate to have to wait until the books are shipped to Europe before I can get my hands on it

[Jeff Richard]

The book will likely be available in PDF form either a little before or a little after GenCon.

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