[RQ-Rules] Re: New RQ

[Peter Maranci]

I've been away and mostly offline, on vacation. But the news of the new "RQ" 
reached me.

It bugs me that there's so much confusion out there. I appreciate that Jason 
made an attempt to clarify things, but I'm still worried.

In part, that's because Matt of Mongoose Publishing and Greg have been 
making contradictory statements. The new RQ will be a new system...or not. 
It will be BRP, but in new language. It has the same "feeling" as RQ, but is 
substantially changed.

My fear is that the RuneQuest name is being slapped on some new 
HeroQuest-lite system, or one that has little to do with the real RuneQuest. 
I hope I'm wrong.

But at this point I don't know if EITHER DBRP or Mongoose-RQ are really 
going to contain the qualities that made RuneQuest such a great system. And 
that means I don't know which system to support on my site. Because there's 
no way I'm going to support a system that falls short of the real RuneQuest. 


Which, just to clarify, does NOT mean that I'm demanding a word-for-word 
reprint of RQIII. I already have my copy, after all. And I'd be the last to 
deny that RQIII needed fixes and updates in some areas. But after RuneQuest: 
Slayers, and the disappointment of HeroQuest (which I still heartily 
detest), I'm feeling twice burned.

I mean, what if the whole point of the new RuneQuest is to confuse the issue 
and split up the RuneQuest *system* fan base? That whole Glorantha/RuneQuest 
trademark battle a few years ago makes me wonder how relations are between 
Greg and Chaosium. And if Greg has decided to try to co-opt or scuttle the 
traditional RQ-system fanbase, this would be a great way to do it.

Sigh. I HATE being kept in the dark...

->Peter
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