Mal ein paar genauere Infos zum derzeitigen Stand von RQG-Produkten. Quelle ist J. Richard persönlich:
"Right now we are just waiting on The Smoking Ruins to get through layout (art and text done - last I checked layout is about 1/3 done) and then Pegasus Plateau goes in. The Starter kit is in a holding pattern until a key map is finished. None of these have any holdup for me (I do need to do some more work once the map is done, but that is easy). After that is the Gamemaster Guide, unless Jason decides to move out one of the several other completed manuscripts first.
My focus has been on the Cults of Glorantha and the RuneQuest Campaign - two huge foundational books. There is not going to be a Cults of Glorantha Kickstarter. We will be releasing it in the normal manner once art is done. Cults is two volumes of material and requires a LOT of art. It also has required a lot of feedback and revision because it is a foundational book for the entire cosmology of everything. The RuneQuest Campaign is essentially Boy King for RuneQuest. "
Das JONESTOWN COMPENDIUM steht kurz vor der Verfügbarkeit. Michael O'Brien schreibt:
"The Jonstown Compendium and its four initial releases are in hands of DTRPG; release imminent."
Rick Meints gibt einen zusätzlichen Einblick, weshalb RQG so langsam voranschreitet:
" Glorantha is tough to write for. A lot of writers are intimidated by the subject. Many decades ago, Chaosium was asked "why does so much more CoC material get published as opposed to RQ material?" Greg's answer from back then is still true today. Chaosium gets many more submissions for CoC material than it does for RuneQuest material. Probably at least 5 times as many. Also, as has been stated in previous replies, we spend a LOT more time on art direction than was ever done in the past. So, when you have few authors writing material, and art takes a long time, the end result means books don't get published as fast.
It is also worth pointing everyone to the Jonstown Compendium section on DriveThruRPG. Chaosium has specifically set up an outlet for RuneQuest authors to get material published without Chaosium slowing you down with any, especially lengthy, editing or review. We are always on the lookout for more RuneQuest authors that can produce quality material to deadline. We happily pay them for it. We certainly don't discourage them."
Noch ein kleiner Seitenhinweis zu Crowdfundings von R. Meints: "We don't have any RuneQuest related kickstarters on the horizon, including Gods of Glorantha. [...] Kickstarters often have the result of slowing down the release of new material. We don't need a Kickstarter to tell us enough people will buy the newest forthcoming RQ book. "
