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Black Spear (RuneQuest)
Verlag: Chaosium
von Malin R. [Verifizierter Käufer]
Hinzugefügt am: 11/28/2023 04:45:24

I bought the Black Spear after hearing great things about it, even though my campaign is not set in 1625, Sartar, and has nothing to do with the Colymar. And oh boy, am I glad that I did. This adventure is grand and exciting, and truly weird and funny in places. It showcases Glorantha at its best (in my opinion), letting the characters walk the line between the realistic bronze-age world and the twisted weirdness where other realms leak through and gods, spirits and heroes act. If you have ever wondered how to handle accidental heroquests, or involve the more mythical aspects of Glorantha, this module is the place to go for inspiration. Even if you never play the entire quest, each episode can be mined for adventures and encounters usable for your own campaign. For me, personally, the scenes set in Sun County in 1625 was inspirational, and how Argrath was handled a revelation much in line with my own thinking.

  • Buy it if you want to send your Sartarite players on an epic quest to Pavis, want to explore the nightmares of Argrath himself, find out what goes on in Sun County, or simply might wish to partake in a newtling spawning rave.

  • Bonus point for being the downright best written RQ supplement I have read in ages, and a fun delight to read on its own. The gamemaster winks are another bonus point I ended up reading out loud to my partner.

  • Another bonus point to the illustrations, as weird and irreverently evocative as anything I've seen in Glorantha. Some of the newtlings will haunt me forever...

A final comment: Whether you like the more "fourth wall breaking" parts of the story (mainly riffing on certain songs for villain speeches) or not, the author gracefully give you permission to disregard those and gives many other tips on how to adapt the adventure to suit your particular playing style. Me, while I love the Young Ones and Anarchy in the UK, I'm going to adjust those parts as I am gamemastering a bunch of metalheads who likes english humor and they'd pick up the references too easily and it might derail the table. My Glorantha varies in that regard...



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Black Spear (RuneQuest)
Verlag: Chaosium
von tomoyuki [Verifizierter Käufer]
Hinzugefügt am: 11/27/2023 07:33:16

とてもドラマティック・シネマティックで面白いシナリオでした。 章立ては7つに区切られていますが、身内では全4回のセッション(オフラインで各回6時間)で完走できました。

「女王たちの戦い」で女王カリルを失ったサーター・コリマー部族がシナリオの開始場所となり、竜王アーグラスに会うためにプラックス・パヴィスを目指します。

デフォルトでは戦闘場面は少なめのセッティングですが、暴力増々にするならば、という示唆も提示されています。

英語から日本語に翻訳する場合、著者の軽妙なノリを機械翻訳が上手く翻訳してくれなかったりするので、元ネタを理解するのに少々予備知識が必要となります。

かつて日本国内で翻訳出版された「サンカウンティ-太陽領-」や「ゆりかご河」が手元にある方ならば、その情報を活かして翻訳変換がスムーズにいくと思います。



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Black Spear (RuneQuest)
Verlag: Chaosium
von Alexander W. [Verifizierter Käufer]
Hinzugefügt am: 08/26/2023 18:14:35

So after reading it, I would say that Black Spear is a really really good read. Mr. Brooke knows Glorantha a lot, like really good. And the Adventure is grand in the scheeme and the players will encounter many Gloranthan weirdness. So why only 3 Stars, well as I said it is a good read and also a wealth of ideas for you Glorantha stories. I think it is a not so good as an adventure, lots of dense Text and for my taste almost a tad too mutch Railroading/Pushing the players. My best comparison would be old White Wolf "adventures" for Vampire. So I would never run it but will take it for Insparition for my own adventures and more Glorantha weirdnes.



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Black Spear (RuneQuest)
Verlag: Chaosium
von Axel J. [Verifizierter Käufer]
Hinzugefügt am: 08/17/2023 12:33:15

Glorious. It's exactly the kind of RQ campaign that I want to run, and as soon as my group reaches the appropriate time they will be. It does an amazing job of drawing on older material, without requiring the GM to have access to it - you may well want to pick up said material to find out more but there is absolutely no need to do so. The story, the art, the music & pop culture references, and writing style cohere beautifully, and captures a part of the vibe of RQ that I remember from when I started playing, back in the mid-80's which seems to have been dropped in more recent material. Buy it! Read it! Play it!



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Black Spear (RuneQuest)
Verlag: Chaosium
von John D. [Verifizierter Käufer]
Hinzugefügt am: 08/02/2023 06:18:49

Updated Post-Completion Review, July 2023

How do I satisfactorily review a mini-campaign of such bonkers genius as Nick Brooke’s Black Spear?

Nick describes his creative process as like an oyster which grows a beautiful pearl around a small grain of detail, and my players, who have now been on the receiving end of Nick’s nacreous narrative, would certainly consider their necks to have been graced amply by the pearl necklace of his creative effusions.

This has it all, and the kitchen sink too. Heroquests, newtling orgies, Argrath, wibbly-wobbly Yelmey Welmey lore, dragons, bad puns, cheesy Gloranthan reworkings of classic rock and pop songs, some very peculiar … couplings and … fertility rituals ...

This is all very high concept, so any GMs should be prepared for the need to boggle the minds of their players. A flair for the dramatic, an embrace of high camp, and a willingness to ham the hell out of some of the encounters. A table that’s OK with just going with the flow, tolerance for your occasionally insane narrative jumps and willingness to embrace the psychedelic absurdity of it all will also greatly help. Nick provides alternatives for groups keener on a more, erm, traditional narrative, but I think it would lose something important if you went for them.

It's wonderful. Bonkers and wonderful. Nacreous.

Buy it

Original Review I dont know what the author is on, but I'd like some of it. Bonkers in all the best ways. Psychedelic illustrations, weird-ass dreams, references to Bowie, The Smiths and Aristophanes. Black Spear gives some really great Glorantha, but with a touch of the silliness I loved so much in earlier edtions. A must-buy. (I'm tempted to go on a special Heroquest simply to gain the secrets of a higher star rating to apply.)



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Black Spear (RuneQuest)
Verlag: Chaosium
von Diana R. [Verifizierter Käufer]
Hinzugefügt am: 06/24/2023 21:03:02

Black Spear is just amazing! I've been playing Runequest for 35+ years, and I have never enjoyed the game as much as I have with this book. Deep lore easily presented, great art, and the most fun you'll have reading a scenario, even before you get to play it! Get it. It's that simple.



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Black Spear (RuneQuest)
Verlag: Chaosium
von Brian S. [Verifizierter Käufer]
Hinzugefügt am: 03/29/2023 15:03:37

I love this book! The author writes as if you are there with him and you are having a frank discussion about gameplay and how to run the adventure. Brooke's humor runs throughout. Even better, if you are a long time player of RuneQuest, you will be pleased with all the callouts to past adventures (especially in Prax and Pavis).



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Black Spear (RuneQuest)
Verlag: Chaosium
von Carl M. [Verifizierter Käufer]
Hinzugefügt am: 05/12/2022 02:51:50

A great scenario that is so huge that it can also be described as a mini-campaign. Its great but I would recommend that you read it at least 2-3 times before you run it. Its not the easiest scenario to run. But well worth the effort.



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Black Spear (RuneQuest)
Verlag: Chaosium
von Jason F. [Verifizierter Käufer]
Hinzugefügt am: 04/26/2022 12:41:21

As the only person to give Black Spear less than a 5, I thought maybe I owed Nick/the community a review. So here it is.

First, the good. And there is plenty of good. The writing, by which I mean the prose, is outstanding. Nick Brooke has a talent for vivid turns of phrase, and they are in full effect here. I love vivid details in my RPG books and fall asleep when there are reams of text that ultimately don't say much, and that is decidely not an issue here. On the (relatively) rare occasions that Brooke plays it straight (more on this later), he strikes a tone that is quintessentially Runequestian/Gloranthan. His long history with and experience with the world is evident on every page.

The artwork is also outstanding. The bold colors and confident, deceptively simple linework is a perfect match for the larger than life, frequently trippy descriptions. I'm not sure a better and more apt partner for what Brooke was trying to do here could be found.

Where this work does not fully succeed for me, and this is very much in many ways a matter of taste, is threefold:

It's rarely grounded. Nick knows more about Gloranthan myth than most people have forgotten but in the process of sharing that love, there isn't a whole lot of room left for, you know, earthly concerns. It's not one long Heroquest, but it also kinda is. There's a lack of combat, but it's not just that. There's a lack of "mundane" activities in general. The author does provide a one page "violence is always an option" add-on that suggests a few ways to add combat encounters for those who want them, but it read as half-hearted and considerably less inspired than the rest of the work. Again, this is a matter of taste, but my main issue is the one tangential to that one, as in:

There's not that much for players to do. Most of the rolls are against passions and runes, and most of those won't ultimately change what happens. It is entirely possible that it's partly my own lack of imagination at fault here, but as I read it, I kept thinking it would be difficult to keep my players from being bored. It's a very hard line to walk, I'm sure, enmeshing players in epic historical events while also keeping them engaged and possessing of agency; I feel like this adventure is a bit too much for the former and not enough of the latter.

The third thing is, again, a matter of taste, but it literally made me start rolling my eyes at times so here goes: too many pop culture references. Runequest doesn't have to be and maybe shouldn't usually be deadly serious, but if there's a line, Black Spear gets in a helicopter, flies 100 miles past it, and then turns around and fires a missile back at the line to obliterate it. I could/would not read nearly a single actual line of dialogue from the book when running the game because of the silly tone. I'm enough of both a literature/mythology guy and a pop culture/music guy that I think I got like 90% of the references, and there are so, so many. Some of it is intriguing; like using The Hollow Men as a framework. But some of it just wore on me and took me out of the story.

Anyway, I hope that sincere criticism is accepted, if not embraced, by the author and the book's many fans. I want to emphasize that I enjoyed the book and that there are many, many interesting and colorful ideas in it. I'll take a Black Spear over a bland "story" about running into a pack of Broos anyday. When Brooke releases his next book (Crimson something-or-other, I think I saw somewhere?), I'll slap down my money first day I see it.



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Black Spear (RuneQuest)
Verlag: Chaosium
von Sean F. [Verifizierter Käufer]
Hinzugefügt am: 04/15/2022 17:46:17

Nick Brook’s Black Spear deserves five stars and more just for the sheer audacity it took to write it. It should come with a warning for GM’s and players alike to strap in and hold on tight because from start to finish it is a wild ride. A railroad on steroids, the pace is both frantic and heavy duty. Players will love it, hate it, and everything in between. An emotional roller coaster that channels Hunter S. Thompson, David Bowie, Iggy Pop, Colonel Kurtz, and even Mok from Rock and Rule. The artwork is amazing, a feast for the eyes. Nick even suggests a soundtrack to accompany scenes, if only to get you in the mood while you read through it. All that and it portrays one of the biggest Gloranthan "Heroes of the Age" as a figure whose motivations and character absolutely should be called into question by your players before they give him their loyalty… Buy this scenario and leave your shame behind because it will make you and your players throw yourselves into the world of Glorantha like babies being born naked and screaming into the world.



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Black Spear (RuneQuest)
Verlag: Chaosium
von Matthew H. [Verifizierter Käufer]
Hinzugefügt am: 03/27/2022 15:18:27

Really good story that ties in well with established timelines and potentially with other previous adventures, whilst harkening back to many old RQ favourites Wonderfully illustrated throughout in a great unique style (gonzo? I want to call it gonzo) Show cases what you can do with Glorantha and how weird the setting can get. If I have any criticisms (and really these are minor quibbles) its that its perhaps more for an established gloranthophile audience or that they'd get more from the adventure than new players and that particularly due to its heroquest mythic level of questing that once you tie yourself to its wagon/chariot/water serpent you are on a straight path and the players don't have many scripted ways of doing detours, sidequests or not doing what the quest wants of them. Which makes it sound like a bigger issue than I actually have with it - it just needs the GM to be more on their toes for it, rather than just reading the wonderful story as written. Loved it. More please.



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Black Spear (RuneQuest)
Verlag: Chaosium
von Nick E. [Verifizierter Käufer]
Hinzugefügt am: 01/01/2022 05:21:36

What I particularly like about this is not that it's a cracking adventure campaign. It's by Nick Brooke, that rather goes without saying, it's the way the whole thing is peppered with advice on just how to get that extra emotional lift out of the crucial scenes.whatwh



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Black Spear (RuneQuest)
Verlag: Chaosium
von Peter H. [Verifizierter Käufer]
Hinzugefügt am: 12/31/2021 11:28:28

Five reasons why every GM should get hold of this! First up it is epic in scope with a dramatic narrative that pulls no punches throughout. As the adventurers wend their way towards a heart of darkness in a seriously deep dive into Gloranthan myth and fable, they are treated like true heroes (this is the Hero Wars after all). Secondly it is a master class in crafting an adventure. It adopts and adapts. The adventure is woven with Gloranthan lore and strongly embedded into the Hero Wars story arc. Thirdly it is full of nuggets of wisdom. Following the copious footnotes you can find out about Velikovsky, Shaken Sistras and Terpsichorean mastery. It will also improve your Latin. Brooke potuit, ego non potero! Even Diana Wynne Jones “Tough Guide to Fantasy Land” gets a plug. Fourthly you will definitely learn a lot about Glorantha. Nick joins the dots employing his encylopedic knowledge. A real eye opener which raises many questions for the inquisitive Gloranthaphile. And fifthly it's worth it just for the amazing art by Mike O’Connor. Great layout for the whole document too. This was an adventure that needed to be written, and ought to be read.



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Black Spear (RuneQuest)
Verlag: Chaosium
von Darren P. [Verifizierter Käufer]
Hinzugefügt am: 11/28/2021 13:56:26

Mike wrote "One of the greatest scenarios ever written for RuneQuest and the world of Glorantha" and I whole-heartedly agree. This is a work of sheer genius (or sheer madness). What I love about Nicks work is that he is a painter of the world of Gorantha, bringing it to life (with the immense aid of Mike O'Connors art) but, not only that, Nick is a teacher. His side notes and musings help a GM to run a game and to improve in their role as GM and storyteller. I (and those I play with) loved Duel at Dangerford as it turned out to be the go to starter adventure for Glorantha and this transcends that work.



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Black Spear (RuneQuest)
Verlag: Chaosium
von Rüdiger Q. [Verifizierter Käufer]
Hinzugefügt am: 11/25/2021 07:39:16

The campaign is great. Additionally I like the style of the author, as he does not only present his story/campaign, but also his thoughts behind the decisions he made and presents more ideas that didn't work for him, but might for other groups. That‘s very helpful if you adjust a campaign to your own group.



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