Lokarnos.com: your guide to all the best Gloranthan websites

[Nick Brooke]

Lokarnos.com is ready to roll!

Visit Lokarnos, your index to all the best Gloranthan websites. A new user-built hub and forum, where you can announce, discover and discuss all kinds of Gloranthan material from across the World Wide Web. You don't even need to be a registered user to participate (registration is free, of course, and does have some benefits)!

Highlights include: content indexed by topic (publisher, region, race...) and section (cults, maps, rules...); fully customisable content selection; user-moderated threaded discussions; karmic rewards for valued contributors; guidelines and FAQs for new users... a wealth of material is just one click away.

Brought to you by stalwarts of the Glorantha Digest and fan scene, Lokarnos could be a great leap forward for Glorantha -- if you're willing to help us keep its wheels spinning. With the legacy of RuneQuest, the backdrop of the Hero Wars, and the imminent release of HeroQuest to build on, the future looks bright! So come to http://lokarnos.com, look around, and let us know what you think and what you've found!

Regards,

Nick Brooke
Graham Robinson
and Oliver Bernuetz

PS: why the name? "Lokarnos" is the Gloranthan god of wagons and trade, worshipped in the Dara Happan Empire: gold, wheels, coins and logistics are his special province. Besides, it makes a nice complement to http://www.issaries.com and http://www.etyries.com. And, unlike Mastakos the Mover, Lokarnos isn't lame!

[Nick Brooke]

Our new Gloranthan hub, Lokarnos.com, was launched on the first of May to be your index to all the best Gloranthan websites.

After the first month, Lokarnos has over 100 registered users (*) and over 320 index entries (sites, pages, announcements...). Server logs show it provides more than 20 MB of data (500+ pages!) per day to its discerning readers. The technical hitches that plagued our early days have been resolved -- Lokarnos is now fast and stable, continues to evolve (in response to user feedback), and eagerly awaits your contributions.

The site is a user-built hub and forum, and we greatly appreciate the efforts of those stalwarts who've submitted their own favourite sites to the index and participated in discussions.

So, if you haven't yet visited http://lokarnos.com, why not drop by and see what all the fuss is about? With the legacy of RuneQuest, the backdrop of the Hero Wars, and the imminent release of HeroQuest to build on, the future looks bright!

Regards,

Nick Brooke,
Graham Robinson
and Oliver Bernuetz

(*) you don't have to be a registered user to enjoy and contribute to Lokarnos, although you'll be missing out on some of the site's neat stuff if you decide not to. The registration process is free, quick and usually painless. So come on over and click some widgets!

[Nick Brooke]

The Gloranthan hub, Lokarnos.com, was launched on the first of May to be "your index to all the best Gloranthan websites".

After two months, Lokarnos has over 130 registered users (*), over 600 visitors per week, and more than 500 index entries. The web server's logs show it provides more than 50 MB of data (a thousand pages!) per day to its discerning readers; our link from Issaries' front page must be responsible for some of the increase... Lokarnos will continue to evolve in response to your feedback, and eagerly awaits your contributions (both index entries and comments).

So, if you still haven't visited http://lokarnos.com, come on over and see what the fuss is all about! With the legacy of RuneQuest, the backdrop of the Hero Wars, and the release of HeroQuest (this month!) to build on, the future looks bright!

Regards,

Nick Brooke,
Graham Robinson
and Oliver Bernuetz

(*) you don't have to be a registered user to enjoy and contribute to Lokarnos, although you'll be missing out on some of the site's neat stuff if you decide not to. The registration process is free, quick and usually painless. So come on over and click some widgets!

[Christopher Kubasik]

Okay!  Okay!  You're excited.  We're excited!  Slow down!

[Christopher Kubasik]

Hi,

After exchanging some PMs with Nick I discoverd that I'd missed that this thread had been around for a while.  (I assumed it was several months of updates all posted the same day.)

While I think the Lorkanos website is great, I dread thinking that as HQ gains more of an audience (and I suspect it will), different websites will be making regular promos to keep their sites "near the top."  (Not Nick's intent, but that's the effect.)

HQ/Glorantha is unique in RPGs: It's grown as a game for decades, is still around, and is getting a fresh start with unique style of rules generating unexpected excitement from new players ready to try really different types of RPGs.  The world background has been also growing, with a fan base that has a lot of great information available on the Internet.

So, here's my question: Does the Forge want to host a Sticky thread at the top of the HQ board listing Glorantha sites that people ask to be linked here or people find and want to link.  Again, I ask this only because there's just so much frickin' material out there and Glorantha is kind of unique this way.

Since we have no rep for the game running this board, it would be "The Forge" that does this.

I can also respect that we might not want to get invovled with something like this.  But again, I'm trying to find a way to help connect people to great Glorantha material, while discouraging a Glorantha Site Arms Race.

BTW, if Ron or Clinton comes back and says, "Sound great, but I'm not doing it."  I'll do it.  (What that would entail I still don't know, but I'm volunteering.)

And if they come back and say, "Um, no."  That's cool, too.

Christopher

[Ron Edwards]

Do it!

Best,
Ron

[Nick Brooke]

THE list of Gloranthan websites is the Glorantha Tribe's Links, originally built by Kim Englund and now hosted and somewhat maintained by Issaries, Inc: accept no substitutes!

http://www.glorantha.com/tribes/links.html[/list:u]There's also a subset of these, the Top 20 Gloranthan Websites (determined by a plutocratic oligarchical vote carried out in 2002):

http://www.glorantha.com/gta/top20list.html[/list:u]The navigation menus in the right-hand margin of Lokarnos lead to these and several other useful sites (including the key mailing lists and independent publishers), and can also be configured to provide publishers' news, product updates, etc:

http://lokarnos.com[/list:u]And there's a page about the main Gloranthan Mailing Lists on my own website:

http://www.etyries.com/lists.htm[/list:u]Any others we should list, please advise (and I'll add them to Lokarnos, too!).

Cheers, Nick