You’ve been waiting over 20 years for Sartar Kingdom of Heroes to finally come out but when it does, your Christmas budget has already been shot – what do you do? Do you pawn the family jewels or sell your blood? Never fear, Ian Cooper and Rule One Magazine has come up with an answer: the Sartar Contest.
Actually two contests: whoever designs the best new feat or writes the best description of a Narrator character will get a FREE copy of the Sartar book. Ian Cooper and Rule One Magazine are giving out two FREE copies in total – one for each contest. If the entries are good enough, they may get used in a future Moon Design publication. Make your own corner of Glorantha!
For more details, check out Rule One Magazine!
To celebrate the release of Sartar Kingdom of Heroes, Ian Cooper, in association with Moon Design and Rule One, is running not one, but TWO contests. The prize for each contest will be a copy of Sartar, Kingdom of Heroes.
Rule One Magazine will have more information on this in the next day or two. Watch this space!
The long-awaited Sartar Kingdom of Heroes had its inauguration to rapturous reception at Dragonmeet 2009 and was sold out within its first hour. Now you can order Sartar Kingdom of Heroes from Moon Design!
Check out this Youtube video of Sartar Kingdom of Heroes
At Convention Chimeriades, Fabian Küchler and I ran HQ games using the new Sartar book. We asked the players to send us their clans and characters to show people how easy and flexible characters are under the new rules. So without further adieu, here’s some of those characters:
More to come!
Jeff
The world premiere of Sartar: Kingdom of Heroes will be at London Dragonmeet on Saturday, November 28th. If you are a UK Gloranthaphile, this is your chance to get your copy of Sartar before anyone else in the world (and avoid the postage costs on a book that weighs MORE THAN A KILO!).
Sartar: Kingdom of Heroes is approximately 400 pages long. It is fully and beautifully illustrated, with amazing maps from Colin Driver and Gill Pearce. This is the book Greg has been working on for almost 30 years; a one-stop, complete and comprehensive treatment of the core kingdom of Sartar and FULLY PLAYABLE!!!
Keep checking the glorantha.com site for sample pages and preorder information for the Sartar book in the next few days.
The Glorantha Rebirth is coming very very soon!
Those who are familiar with Greg Stafford’s Glorantha are likely familiar with the problem of scale in previously published maps. One map might say it is 50 miles from Clearwine Fort to Duck Point, another says it is only 30 miles. One map might display the continent of Genertela as being 3000 miles from west to east, but using the scale on another one gets the distance of only 1600 miles.
It is enough to drive a poor cartographer mad.
Fortunately, Colin Driver (our cartographer) is not a poor cartographer and was already mad to begin with. And so after much hard work he has resolved the scale of Glorantha issue once and for all. Genertela is approximately 3000 miles from west to east (which is comparable to the distance from the eastern seaboard of the United States to the western seaboard). It is approximately 50 miles from Clearwine Fort to Duck Point (as the Orlanthi holy man flies) and precisely 68 miles from Jonstown to AldaChur.
Here is a map of England superimposed over a map of Dragon Pass and the Holy Country to give a more local sense of scale:
And here’s a clean image of the same map:
As you can see, the Kingdom of Sartar is roughly the distance from Nottingham to Durham and is comparable in size to the Anglo-Saxon Kingdom of Northumberia. In this comparison projection, Whitewall is approximately where Leicester would be, Duck Point near Manchester, Runegate outside of Leeds, and central Tarsh is in the Lake District. Boldhome would be somewhere near Hull. AldaChur would be somewhere in North Yorkshire.
Thus compared to England, the Kingdom of Sartar stretches from the Midlands to North East England. This is the canonical scale of Glorantha.
The Sartar book will contain many maps designed to give GMs and players a much better feel for the exact size of things in Dragon Pass, including:
- A map of Dragon Pass and the Holy Country
- A map of Sartar
- A map showing the boundaries of all the tribes of Sartar
- A map showing the major holy places of the Sartarites
- A detailed map of the lands of the Colymar tribe
- A map showing the boundaries of all the clans of Colymar tribe and their neighboring tribes.
And much more! Last I counted we had more than 20 maps in the Sartar Book.
The Book of Heortling Mythology will be available at Convention Chimériades this weekend!
This book contains the entire corpus of Orlanthi mythology known to Greg. At 184 pages it is the largest Stafford Library Book to date (and 50% bigger than the HeroQuest Core Rules).
The Book of Heortling Mythology contains scores of myths never before seen in print:
- When Orlanth was a Prisoner
- Orlanth and Sh’harkazeel
- Orlanth and the Thunder Weapons
- Ernalda’s Other Husbands
- Kodig the King
- Lifebringer variants
- The Three Otherworlds
- The Death of Heort
- The Stampede
- Talosa the Snake Goddess
- The book also contains comprehensive lists of ever Orlanthi god, hero, and demon known to Greg.
- And much much much more!!!!
At 184 pages it is 50% bigger than the HeroQuest core rules, and yet you can get it at Chimeriades for only €27.50. Or find someone going to the convention to act as your mule.
The Moveable Ephemeris is the computer version of the famous “machine that marched with the sky” in Yuthuppa. Plus: an ancient document describing the Gloranthan sky!!
Big time serious thanks to Nick Brooke, Alex Ferguson and Mr. Tines for their work on the Ephemeris.
We are very happy to announce that the long-awaited Sartar: Kingdom of Heroes will be officially released at the Dragonmeet Convention on November 28, 2009. Moon Design will be selling copies of Sartar, the HeroQuest Core Rules and the Book of Heortling Mythology at the convention.
World-wide sales begin on December 1, 2009 through the glorantha.com website. As always it is worth watching the Moon Design Blog as we get closer to the big release day – we might have a few special offers for the quick sighted.
We here at Moon Design want you to be able to use HeroQuest as your rules engine for your game setting, be it science fiction, high fantasy, horror, westerns, martial arts, or anything else. To facilitate this, we are enabling you to publish your own non-Gloranthan game material using the HeroQuest rules engine without paying us royalties or negotiating cumbersome or intrusive license agreements.
We created the HeroQuest Gateway License to let you do just that. Check it out at the HeroQuest Gateway page and let this be your license to adventure!