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Life of Moonson, Book One: The Characters

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Reaching Moon Megacorp’s Life of Moonson, Book One: The Characters contains fifty illustrated character sheets from the freeform live-action role-playing game (LARP) run at North American, British and Australian Gloranthan Conventions in the late nineties.

Take part in the Lunar New Year Ceremonies! Marvel at the glory and decadence of the  Imperial Court! Witness the majesty of the Senate, the might of the Red Army, and the sinister machinations of the organs of state...

Written by David Hall, Kevin Jacklin, Nick Brooke & Chris Gidlow, with Michael O’Brien & Mike Hagen. Lavishly illustrated by Dario Corallo, with cartography by Phil Anderson.

The first edition of A Rough Guide to Glamour was presented to all freeform players as background information. A new, revised and expanded edition is available from the Jonstown Compendium in hardcover and digital formats, and is an ideal companion to this volume. Two articles written primarily to support the freeform which were cut from the revised Guide are included here: a Gazetteer of the Lunar Empire and a timeline of Recent History.

This game is set in Greg Stafford’s world of Glorantha, but contains no RuneQuest or QuestWorlds game mechanics. Life of Moonson, Book Two: The Freeform contains all of the game rules, timetable, bluesheets, ability/item/challenge cards, seeded envelopes, imperial offices, coup game components, and directors’ notes on how the game was run.

Note: material in this book deals with mature themes.


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Dominic S August 22, 2021 10:38 pm UTC
What is the difference between the Standard Hardcover and Premium Hardcover?
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Nick B August 23, 2021 5:59 am UTC
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Print quality. Standard color printing is cheaper, and looks cheaper. The paper is exactly the same. There are some photos showing the difference at the link below, and more in my Jonstown Compendium Index, qv. There’s nothing “wrong” with the cheaply-printed books, it’s just that they’d look better (sharper edges, deeper colours, more tones and details showing up, etc.) in premium color.

https://support.drivethrurpg.com/hc/en-us/articles/209936943-What-is-the-difference-between-B-W-Premium-Color-and-Standard-Color-
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Nick B April 07, 2021 11:26 am UTC
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I’ve been asked how long it took to run this game. “Life of Moonson” was a one-day game, beginning with a pre-game meet for ten or so players at 11:00. The event proper began at 13:00 (rules briefing), with a costume parade at 13:30, then ran until 22:00 with an hour's break for dinner. The game timetable is included in Book Two, which breaks out scheduled and unanticipated events by hour, as they occurred.

Our Gloranthan freeforms were usually the centrepiece events at weekend-long conventions. We ran them in the United Kingdom (at Convulsion), and in the United States, Canada and Australia (at RuneQuest Cons & GloranthaCons). They spawned at least a dozen spin-offs and imitators; con-goers loved getting creative with their costumes and taking unfamiliar corners of the world for a spin.

You would need both books to understand how the game ran. Book One contains the fifty character sheets players received before the game began; Book Two has all the game rules, ability and item...See more
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