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Loved the video. You asked for some clarification on the CDA timeline. Pre-2004 - Stephane Gesbert writes a series of freely available PDFs. 2004 - Chaosium collates those PDFs into the book that becomes Cthulhu Dark Ages 1st edition. 2015 - The 2nd edition of Cthulhu Dark Ages is released at GenCon. Only 250 copies were printed. It was updated for CoC 7th edition with this release (although we wrote it for 6th edition edition and had to update it). 2020 - Cthulhu Dark Ages 3rd edition is released. Textually it's very close to the 2015 release. There's a couple thousand more words to serve as connector text, full color pages and art, and a reorganization.
Thanks Chad! I think MOB had elucidated the timeline on BRP Central back in January/February, but I couldn't remember. And then that thread resurfaced over the last few days.
Shout out to Andi as well. As I say in the video it is obvious you have a passion for the source material. Writer passion for material is important to me as a reader. I follow a lot of Creators that their passion is part of what drives my interest. Now, I like the source material here too. ;)
I'm not sure why its called the Southern Wilds. THE Dragon Pass is actually on that map (depicted with the dragon head - it is an actual skull you travel through to get to the other side of the mountains. But the region of Dragon Pass is more to the east than the north, though everything on the map south and east of the mountain range I would consider as part of the Dragon Pass region.
Love the videos! Do you think the leatherette version was worth it? I have been debating getting the special editions of Harlem Unbound, Dark Ages and/or Berlin: the Wicked City. But I just love the normal cover art so much. And they wouldn't match all my other Chaosium books.
That's a really tough question and I'm just not qualified to answer that for you. Losing the cover art was hard for me. The other thing to consider is that you can buy two gaming books for the price of one if you don't go Leatherette! I bought the Leatherette because I'm a huge fan of Chris and want to support his work. I will probably lean towards leatherette on my top CoC books. Malleus Monstrorum is a likely candidate. Perhaps Dreamlands, when that happens. But the majority of books I will get "regular," simply to increase the reach of my gaming dollars. I mean, I'm also fortunate in that i can afford to purchase a Leatherette every so often.
These look great... I was gonna wait til Mansions of Madness Vol. 1 physical edition came out to get one of these but I might just get both... (not the Runequest).
You mention RQ as a combat heavy game. While the rules are a bit crunchier than Call Of Cthulhu the combat can be just as lethal. You can easily play a few sessions before anyone gets stabby with a sword, loads of diplomacy, cult activity, clan politics. And when they fighting does start it can end badly very quickly...traditionally with at least one PC losing their left leg.
Everything that you said is true. And given how new I am to Runequest, I just don't feel comfortable running it digitally. It isn't just the positioning, although I think the positioning can matter a great deal.
@@RPGImaginings The whole SR and movement concepts can be more visually oriented than CoC. I actually run RQG online, but I have a second computer that hosts the game with a camera on my table with a grid and pawns.
