[Runequest] Runequest II

[strobus at sympatico.ca]

I agree with Simon's listing, too. BRP is hard to place in the list because it can do so many other things. Personally, as an RQ emulator, I'd put it below RQ2 - but as a Stormbringer or CoC emulator, it far surpasses them.

Also, the those who are interested, there's a fan project afoot to use the MRQ1 SRD to produce an RQ2 clone to make it easier for people to play the Moon Design RQ Classics. It can be found here: http://gringlespawnshop.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=glyph and it's currently called GlyphMaster.

Chris

Date: Wed, 3 Nov 2010 16:28:42 -0700
From: vikingjarl at gmail.com
To: runequest at rpgreview.net
Subject: Re: [Runequest] Runequest II



  


    
  
  
    @Simon: I have avoided Mongoose products after their rather shabby
    treatment of Steve Perrin & us Old Grognards of Runequest. So I
    can't really comment on any of the MRQ versions (I only saw the
    first playtest version before they shafted the original Mopgoose
    playtesters). Other than that I totally agree with you on your list
    other than perhaps fitting RQ1 & RQ0 (the playtest version - I
    evidently own the last extant copy & still in the original brown
    binder) just beneath RQ2. Out of curiosity, how would you fit BRP
    into that list?

    Sköl,

    Sven

    On 11/3/2010 1:15 PM, Simon Phipp wrote:
    
      
      
        Harry Woolley:
        > can any body explain to me why there is a runequest 11
          as ther is 3 and 4? do the new additions? 
        > not inprove on the ones before,should it not be called
          5 as it is a inproved version,
        
          

          
          RQ1 and RQ2 were brought out by Chaosium
            in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
          

          
          RQ3 was brought out by Avalon Hill, but
            written by Chaosium, in 1985.
          

          
          There was a proposed RQ4 in the 1990s that
            was never published.
          

          
          Mongoose brought out a new version of
            RuneQuest (MRQ1) in 2005 (?) as Issaries Inc had the rights
            to RuneQuest (I believe). That version was full of holes and
            wasn't very good from a rules point of view.
          

          
          Mongoose brought out a new version of
            RuneQuest (MRQ2), which they called RuneQuest II (as the
            earlier versions clearly meant nothing to them). This was a
            lot better, ruleswise, and is a vast improvement on MRQ1.
          

          
          In my opinion, I would rank the versions
            as follows (best version at the top):
          RQ3
          MRQ2
          RQ2
          RQ4
          MRQ1
          

          
          However, other people will definitely
            disagree ...
          

          
          See Ya
          

          
          Simon
          

            

          
        
      
      
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