Happy New Ye… Ummm. Oh, its happened already

2012 has kicked off with several events worthy of the Mayan calendar.

First, I’ve finished the opening scenario to Harreksaga AND ‘The Trees That Ate Yanchi’. So that’s progress. From Yanchi Harrek and his fleet of social workers sail towards Laskal where the Great White Bear has decided its time to make an empire. Well, when you’ve raided everyone, deposed kings, imposed queens, stolen incredible magical treasures and HeroQuested where no HeroQuester has Quested before, what else is there to do? So the next stage in Harrek’s saga – and so the characters’ – is to make an empire out of the recalcitrant Laskali city-states. This means fending off Afadjann, cleansing the Forest of Disease, uniting the cities and defeating the bat-people. This empire-building, its not easy. And Harrek being Harrek, he’s relying on the Argrath to make him look good.

Secondly, and on an entirely separate theme, Design Mechanism launched the RuneQuest Archives on DrivethruRPG. Here we’ve taken a selection of MRQ1 and MRQ2 books (under an agreement with Mongoose) and made them all available for $1 each, or $10 for the Gloranthan bundle of 10 books. Now, most of you reading this miserable blog will already have most of these, but if you don’t, then I urge you to hurry across to Drivethru and make the investment. At these prices there s little excuse not to sample Glorantha’s Second Age and/or the various, exhaustive races books which can be used with any system you like.

Shameless self-promotion over, I’d like to wish you all a belated Happy New Year and promise to keep you updated on Harrek’s rampage across the Gloranthan oceans. After Laskal, its onto Jrustela.

You just know it won’t end well…