I managed to get into a kimono in time for the first train of the day and made it to Hammersmith for just after 09:00 only to find that the trade hall only opened at 10:00 (the same time as the only Runequest panel). I decided to go to the talk (not having spotted any new RQG items at Essen Spie last month).
Mike O'Brian chaired and had Jeff Richard (creative-supremo) Jason Durall (RQG editor) and Ian Cooper (Call of Cthulhu editor) talk a bit about upcoming releases. There is going to be a new Glorantha-but-non-cannon fan-contribution resource called the Johnstown Compendium. Material has to be written for either RQII (RQ Classic) RQG or Heroquest (i.e. something Chaosium has rights to (Not Mongoose Mithras Leggings etc) but other than that you can submit what you like. The may later work with a few authors whose ideas they like to make any appropriate changes / additions to become canon Gloranthan material.
Separately there is going to be a free-use re-issue of BRP which contributors can modify and submit to some other resource to model any milleux where Chjaosium DOESN'T have products e.g. not Glorantha, HP Lovecraft, Arthurian/Carloginian knighthood.
The comvention booklet had a three page mini adventure 'the Whispering Ruins set on the edge of Prax. not to be confused with another soon to be released scenario pack called the Smoking Ruins set in Beast Valley south of the Grasslands. There is also going to be a scenario pack centred on Jonstown, including a return to the Rainbow Mounds. One is virtually finished the other not far off but they probably will not come out until the Cults of Glorantha reference does. This was in two volumes, I scanned though Volume 2 and it seemed to be mainly Orlanth pantheon and the Lunar array, plus a few oddities like FoundchildI guess Volume 1 will be Darkness, Water, Earth and Sky? There is also a Red book of magic which I didn't get a look at.
Martin Helmsdon brought along some bound volumes of his Armies and Enemies of Dragon pass with will be on PDF in the Jonstown compendium imminently. As you'll know if you see the Runequest Facebook feed it is in an 'Osprey' future historian style and has time black and white artwork penned by Martin who claims not to be a proper artist because it take him days to do what pros can knock off in an hour or two.
I bought a standard RQG volume to save wear and tear on my leatherette copy, an Orlanth themed fridge-magnet-bottle-openner, some William Church map badges to put on my William Church map kimono, a blue/green Hit location dice, rune dice and SR dice and a dice bag/mat with the Colymar tribe map on it.
Mike O'Brian and another Australian chap from the Stand took photos of the Kimono of the Facebook site but having offered to take a photo for him Mike's glamorous assistant cropped him of of the picture from what I could see, I don't think its gone up yet.
I admired some Troll beetle rider metal miniatures (Bingling might like these), but I've never been a figures person really.
I think made byInfinity Engine, Mad Knight Minis, The Goblin's Chest?
Oh, which reminds me one of the topics in the panel was a set of 'battle' rules for RQG characters not so much for them to run the battle in a war-gamer way (onus seems to be on the GM to dictate what he things the likely top level battle result will be). However it deals with the experience of the battle for each PC. In order to 'distinguish themselves in some way they will need to have successfully been motivated by one of their passions or runes to stick their head over the parapet and do something
stupid courageous. The default is to hunker down with your unit and concentrate on not dying.
Evidently Nick Brook was in the panel audience, but I didn't recognise him (we've all aged a bit since I last saw him). I did see one of my two friends who were supposed to be going, and a friend of a friend helping on the Chaosium stall. I bugged out about 14:30 having seen everything a few times, and wanting to get back before my car window iced over too heavily in the station carpark
{edited some spell-checker generated mistakes and looked up the name of the troll/broo/agimor/scorionmani miniatures makers}
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