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A line drawing of small houses

Set in the tribal city of the Colymar, The Dregs of Clearwine is a sourcebook for Runequest: Roleplaying in Glorantha, covering the mini slum that lies north of the Ram's Head Inn. It features ten households, 25 fully explored NPCs with stats for RQG, and a host of minor characters. There are dozens of plot hooks and community events to help link characters to this area, and the people and even animals within. From potters to charcoal carriers, drunken ex-initiates to well fed butchers, the people who support Clearwine and the Earth Temple live, love, and die here. Some leave only to go to their vineyard work. Others vanish for months on end, and return with new scars.

Bespoke art brings life to the area. Included are 19 portraits, a roof map and complementing footprint map, and the ground floor map of a typical house. In addition, boxed text expands on the details of the inhabitants' occupations.

Detailed households
• Mamma Vorlena, a noblewoman who prefers it here
• Turi the potter, and his family workshop
• Rangal and Ivarna, artists whose rooftop is used for smuggling
• Onjeem, once a scribe and enthusiast for the Seven Mothers, now a nothing
• Gatyr the Butcher and her wife, the social climbing Dara
• Dillamor's Flop Nest, the cheap hangout for feathered riverfolk

... And the inhabitants of the great jars by the potters' kiln, the very Dregs of Clearwine.

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The PoD book contains a demo adventure, written from hints and plot hooks in the main text.  The PDF version has this demo as a separate file, to help avoid spoilers.  Love, hatred, and a very special ghost appear in a complete 2-page scenario.

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Dan L November 24, 2023 6:22 pm UTC
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One other thing: the lack of a back cover is mildly disconcerting. I noticed that with Cups, too. Functionally, it's a reassurance that the file did not get cut off short.
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Diana P November 24, 2023 6:26 pm UTC
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Ah, interesting. We'll bear that in mind - do you think any kind of page would do? I prefer not having a back page at the end, mostly because I will have been staring at the book for so long and the creation method doesn't have that page where you might think, but if we had a generic advert page, at least that would say 'OK, done now, your download was good'.
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Diana P December 23, 2023 8:32 pm UTC
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Dan! Thank you for this feedback. The PDF of our latest publication has a back cover, just for you.

(Yes, really, because of this post. Thank you for letting me know how to make the book better.)
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Dan L November 24, 2023 6:11 pm UTC
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Possibly a dumb question, but what do the three different files represent? I get one is a white background rather than colored, which is cool, I prefer the plain background. But there seems to be two color versions and I am not sure why?
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Diana P November 24, 2023 6:17 pm UTC
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I had to go look that up myself...

We divided the colour version of the book into the main book and the demo adventure so you could read it without spoilering yourself by accident. So, if you're a player and want to get the book, the parts that the GM might run as-is would need you to specifically open up the Demo Adventure file.
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Dan L November 24, 2023 6:25 pm UTC
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Ah. OK. Also, none of them are named "Dregs" or anything similar? I thought I failed to download this, had to come back and check. (Sorry, this is all admin stuff, not about the books themselves. )
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Dan L November 24, 2023 6:31 pm UTC
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Oho. The file numbers are 1-50 which matches the PDF page numbers in Acrobat, but the first two pages don't have page numbers on the pages, so the last page number is 48. Got it, now. Thanks.
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wayne B November 02, 2023 1:48 pm UTC
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Will there be anymore Clearwine books?
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Diana P November 02, 2023 5:11 pm UTC
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We definitely hope so - we have one in mid-stage production and a few other ideas. The main problem is that our lives get in the way, and so we can't all get together on the same book. Clearwine books take all 4 of the crew.

So, yes and that is hopefully the next thing after the current PoD conversion of our Praxian adventures.
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Lewis J July 11, 2021 7:59 pm UTC
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This is an imaginative, well written and useful resource for anyone running a campaign around Clearwine. A huge amount of goodness for your buck!
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Diana P July 11, 2021 10:22 pm UTC
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Aw, thank you!
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Dale H May 29, 2021 6:12 am UTC
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Written on purple paper? PDF is very hard to read, almost illegible. Hope one can make out the text in the POD.
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Diana P May 29, 2021 10:14 am UTC
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Ah, no, but one other person has reported a problem. Are you using an Amazon Kindle?
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Diana P May 29, 2021 11:54 am UTC
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Hi, Dale,

I've uploaded a no-background version, and I've also heard from someone else who had the problem (or a related one) that if you use Acrobat on the Kindle, it works just fine. We can't get to the bottom of it as a general problem, but hopefully the no-background version or a different reader will work for you until the PoD arrives.
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Dale H May 31, 2021 10:12 am UTC
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That took care of it. Thank you Diana, much appreciated!

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Dale H May 31, 2021 10:15 am UTC
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And yes, I was using Amazon Kindle. Downloading no background version did the trick.
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Diana P May 31, 2021 1:55 pm UTC
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We'll make sure to create a no-background copy of Cups right from the start, then. Thanks for letting us know, and we hope you enjoy it.
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Diana P July 05, 2021 8:51 am UTC
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Hi Dale. We put the Cups of Clearwine out yesterday, with a white background. https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/363078/Cups-of-Clearwine?affiliate_id=205935 - that's because of your feedback, and the other person who had this problem and helped us to identify it. Thank you for making the product better.
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neil F March 07, 2021 2:22 pm UTC
My friend got me this book and I would highly recommend it to anyone running a game in Clearwine .
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Diana P March 07, 2021 2:34 pm UTC
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Awesome. Thank you. We're very happy to have made it.
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Kristi Herbert, Erin McGuire, Diana Probst, Dom Twist, Beer With Teeth
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