Tales of the Reaching Moon

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From: gadbois@sygmund.cgs.utexas.edu
Date: Mon 23 Apr 1990 - 09:56:33 EEST


Tales of the Reaching Moon is an excellent Gloranthan RuneQuest fanzine published by David Hall in Britain. Issue three is due out in June. The last word I have on the contents is:

    Cult of Geo, by Greg Stafford
    Ancestor Quest, a scenario by Jon Quaife     Serious Money, a Griselda Story by Oliver Dickinson     Adari Cameo, by Oliver Dickinson
    Jaxarte Whyded's Great Gazetteer of Prax, by Michael O'Brian     Beggars, by Michael O'Brian
    Horns of the Bull, a Practice HeorQuest run, by David Hall

Future issues will include a number of cult writeups by Greg Stafford. Gagarth the Wild Hunter (the outlaw cult of Prax) and Maran Gor (the Earthshaker Cult) will be in issue four, and issue five looks like it will be a special issue on Humakt.

Hall has asked me to be the U.S. distributor for the 'zine. Current pricing is $4.00 per issue, but I'll only guarantee it for the next two issues until I figure out how much it costs me to mail everything out. I shall gratefully accept obscure Gloranthan material instead of money. I am looking into getting copies of issues one and two. If you are interested, please respond via email or write me at

    2600 Rio Grande
    Austin, Texas, 78705

If you would like to contact Hall directly, his (new) address is:

    21, Stephenson Court
    Osborne Street
    Slough
    Bershire
    SL1 1TN
    England

He would be happy to get submissions for the zine, too.

Disclaimer: I am not going to be making any money off this, though I do hope to save some on currency exchange and postage.

[Ed's note: English RQ Digest subscribers can apparently see the mag at:

R.S. games, Cheltenham
Spirit Games, Burton on Trent and Croydon Leisure Games, Finchley]

Some stuff from Hall's last letter:

There is a French RQ fanzine called Broos. Hall mentioned articles about the Cult of the Bloody Tusk, Yuthuppa, a campaign set in the Lunar Empire, and a sorcery system. For information, contact:

    Association Broos
    Mr. F. Weil
    19 rue Dume'ril
    75013 Paris

I plan to try to get some issues in the hope that I can con someone into translating it for me. If there are any French speakers out there who are interested, please let me know.

Other fanzines: Hall favorably mentioned "Alarums and Excursions" and "White Wolf Magazine." Does any one have addresses for these?

Hall was quite irate about the artwork situation with the Avalon Hill RQ product (I am, too). He wrote:

"You may or may not know that the artwork that appears in the Avalon
    Hill RuneQuest supllements is not under the control of Chaosium.     After seeing the interior artwork of Troll Gods (especially the
"friendly dark elvels" and the Zorak Zoran Breakdancers) our
    Australian friends are writing to Avalon Hill to complain about its     quality. From the one letter I've seen in reply Avalon Hill are     very complacent and dismissive about the whole thing. Their latest     letter apparently snidely comments that all the protests are only     coming from Australia. Therefore if you want decent artwork then     please write to Avalon Hill as soon as possible and express your     views.

    There is a wider issue here of the amount of influence Chaosium has     with Avalon Hill, at present zilch. It's up to us, the consumers,     to make Avalon Hill realise the error of their ways before it's too     late for RuneQuest.

    By the way I'd appreciate it if any letters you send are personal     and do not mention Tales...."

--David Gadbois

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