@ MSduPre I also agree that a kickstarter format for 5e updates to Tribunal books would be an excellent format for them.
Also, while not quite a tribunal book, a book on mythic scandinavia which looks at some actual history instead of... whatever the hell ultima thule was doing... would be incredible. The 1200s was a very interesting and dynamic time for the region, and focusing on "vikings vikings vikings" (the viking era has been over for over a century in 1220) does it a disservice.
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That's a fair point. And rather surprising, since AM is usually better than that on history. Maybe the Scandinavians should do what the Spanish did, and take the matter into their own hands.
Maybe in addition to a kickstarter or subscription, they should do an open call for submissions, for people who have an interest and expertise in a certain tribunal or region. Novgorod, for instance, written by Russians or Ukranians (or, wishful thinking, a team of them working together) would probably be better than Novgorod written by British and Americans. I'm put in mind of how Kingdom Come Deliverance brought an increased awareness of Mediaeval Bohemia to the larger world (myself included).
Also not a tribunal book, but I don't think Kabbalah ever got updated either, did it?
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Kabbalah is part of the Mythic Judaism chapter of RoP:D.
Kabbalah got effectively updated in Realms of Power: Divine, and then again in the revised edition. 
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Ah, well that's good then.
I absolutely agree with this. Based on how much work I put in my own Rhine Gorge, I have no doubt that people have gradually built up 5E tribunals for their games and that with some editing, the missing Tribunals could be filled in.
Regarding Scandinavia: the first Covenant in Sweden was in fact a Greek one emanating from the Varangian trade lanes, a bunch of Thebans jumped on a boat and settled in what was then the wild North. Up to you if the Covenant still stands to this day or whether it was close enough to Birka that it was destroyed by the Estonian vikings from Saaremaa (if so, this is obviously the work of the Order of Odin).
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Were Stonehenge and Novgorod ever printed in hardback? It seems, from searching that they are only available in softcover and Levant and Alps only in hardcover.
As far as I recall, they were only printed in softcover.
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I would imagine that Pendragon materials have a strong Arthurian flavour, just like Heirs to Merlin has a heavy dose of Geoffrey of Monmouth that I don't personally care for. The stuff he was concocting appeared in the mid 12th Century, whereas the Order of Hermes had been established in the British Isles since the early 9th Century and there would have been many older magi around who would have known what had really been going on.
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