[RQ-Rules] Re: New RQ

[Stephen Perrin]

First of all, I'm an English major. But my minor was Anthropology. My 
co-author Steve Henderson was an Anthro major.

Second, there is no good feeling between Greg and the Chaosium. He says he 
was forced out of Chaosium by his partners. I've never heard their side of 
the story, though Charlie has said he'll sit down with me and discuss it 
sometime when we are both in the same place - a very rare occurrence since 
he doesn't come to DunDraCon and that's the only time I'm in the Bay Area. 
Maybe he'll come to GenConSoCal some time.

There are two threads on RPGNet on the subject of the new RQ. I haven't 
visited either since last weekend. At that time Matt Sprange said he would 
be contacting me, but I haven't heard a thing.

To the best of my knowledge, Mongoose is intending to present a version of 
RuneQuest that is like its predecessors. You've seen the report from one of 
our confreres on this list that he has seen what they have so far and it is 
very RuneQuesty, with 2nd edition terminology if not rules. I haven't seen 
it yet.

I'm hoping something comes out of all this that we'll all like, but I doubt 
that can happen.

Steve Perrin

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Peter Maranci" <pmaranci at gmail.com>
To: "RuneQuest-Rules" <rq-rules at crashbox.com>
Sent: Friday, July 08, 2005 8:35 PM
Subject: [RQ-Rules] Re: New RQ


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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Pete's RuneQuest & Roleplaying! http://www.runequest.org/rq.htm
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