Tales of the Reaching Moon

Tales of the Reaching Moon was a British fanzine dedicated to the fantasy world of Glorantha and producing material for fantasy role-playing games based there.

Publication history

When UK fanzine Pavic Tales, the first notable Glorantha fanzine, ended after issue #9 (Spring 1989), Tales of the Reaching Moon (20 issues, 1989-2002) from British fan organization Reaching Moon Megacorp was the next major fanzine for Glorantha. Reaching Moon Megacorp closed with the publication of Tales of the Reaching Moon #20 (2002).[1]:224–225[2]:56, 58

The editor, David Hall, published 20 issues from 1989 to 2002 (2/yr until 1994, then annually). The magazine was originally published with a monochrome cover but had a full colour cover from issue 12 onwards. Most of the later issues had a central theme fleshed out through a variety of related articles by different authors. A list of issues with themes is given below:

  • Tales of the Reaching Moon #1 (1989)
  • Tales of the Reaching Moon #2 (1989)
  • Tales of the Reaching Moon #3 (1990)
  • Tales of the Reaching Moon #4 (1990) Australian Special!
  • Tales of the Reaching Moon #5 (1991) Humakti Special!
  • Tales of the Reaching Moon #6 (1991)
  • Tales of the Reaching Moon #7 (1992) Hero Quest Special!
  • Tales of the Reaching Moon #8 (1992) The Chaos Feature
  • Tales of the Reaching Moon #9 (1993)
  • Tales of the Reaching Moon #10 (1993) Sea Special
  • Tales of the Reaching Moon #11 (1994) Pamaltela: Great Southern Land
  • Tales of the Reaching Moon #12 (1994) Bumper Colour Special!
  • Tales of the Reaching Moon #13 (1995) Go West!
  • Tales of the Reaching Moon #14 (1996) Praxian Special
  • Tales of the Reaching Moon #15 (1996) Prax Part Deux
  • Tales of the Reaching Moon #16 (1997) Lunar Special
  • Tales of the Reaching Moon #17 (1998) Catch-up Special
  • Tales of the Reaching Moon #18 (1999) Sartar Special
  • Tales of the Reaching Moon #19 (2000) Upland Marsh Special
  • Tales of the Reaching Moon #20 (2002) Farewell Issue!

The fanzine printed gaming material for a variety of rule-systems, including RuneQuest and King Arthur Pendragon. In addition to this it also had fiction, news and a Rumours section based on the format of the RuneQuest supplements.

References
  1. Shannon Appelcline (2014). Designers & Dragons: The '90s. Evil Hat Productions. ISBN 978-1-61317-084-7.
  2. Shannon Appelcline (2014). Designers & Dragons: The '00s. Evil Hat Productions. ISBN 978-1-61317-087-8.


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