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

[Simon Phipp]

David:

>  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. 

Didn't we all? It was a shock to find out that Chaosium and Issaries were
virtually one-man-and-his-shed operations.

> 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.

And they will argue about which is best. I, for one, will continue to use the
best of all of them and have a more generic version of RQ when, and if, I
play.

> 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.

Well, you should be able to use old scenarios with any new version of the
game and vice versa. It might take a bit of work tweaking the stats, but the
same happened with RQ2/RQ3.

> 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.

http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/RQ_Rome was looking for new players at
one stage, but it looks a bit quiet, so it may have died. There was a
Japanese one by the same GM, but that might have died as well.

If you try searching Yahoo Groups you will find loads of PBeM games for RQ:
http://groups.yahoo.com/search?query=runequest 

Simon