[RQ-Rules] Thoughts, and are there any online games around?

[David]

Hello all. Some random thoughts from someone who has
just got back into RQ after a short (!) ten-year
hiatus, and then a request.

 I was only a casual player back in the day, and it
has been fascinating catching up with the history of
the game. And a little sobering, I must admit. You
know, back in the 80's as a teenager, I vaguely
thought that games designers drove around in sports
cars and that Chaosium was some massive corporate
machine. And now it seems that the great game of
Runequest is kept alive only by a small number of
devotees. And that group is fragmented into a number
of tribes. Although I was enthusiastic at first when I
heard about the Mongoose and DBRP projects, now I'm
not so sure. We are already divided into
Gloranthans/non-Gloranthans/HeroQuesters/RQII'ers and
III'ers...it seems inevitable that some will go over
to the two new games and that some (many?) will not.
For mine, I'm fairly committed to RQIII in my own
campaign world which I am currently working on. But
finding players is difficult, and when the new games
come out it will be much easier to convince players,
especially younger ones, to join in a game that is
currently supported.

Anyway, I am not sure if this is the place to ask, but
can anyone point me in the direction of an online
game/PBEM? I haven't been able to find any so far.

cheers
David




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