[Rq-rules] Runequestpt

[Nick.Middleton at invensys.com]

>According to a thread on RPGNet, I am told,  Mongoose decided they weren't
getting useful feedback and pulled the plug.
>Certain people (I am not one of them, despite Mongoose's claims of Greg
and I  having oversight) have been invited to a group that Mongoose is
running.

Mongoose were always entitled to do pretty much whatever they wanted with
the Yahoo Group - what I find sad is that Matt Sprange couldn't spare the
few seconds required to empty the Yahoo Group and lock it down with  a
single post remaining saying "thank you, we've now switched to a private
playtest"; rather than just delete the group and leave everyone to find out
via RPGNet or wherever. Good manners cost nothing, other than goodwill...

>I talked to Ken Hite, who wrote the most recent set  of the rules. He said
he took what Mongoose gave him and made it as much like  classic RQ as
possible.

Can I just say, given how snippy Matt Sprange got when various people
(including myself) queried why early iterations were changing things from
RQII/III (for no good reason, as far as we could see), that I find this
_deeply_ ironic?

> We'll see what happens from there.

Indeed, but with myself at least Mongoose have (yet again...) blotted their
copybook. If it's "number compatible" with RQII/III I'll still be
interested in particular sourcebooks, and as ever what will actual count is
the actual product on the FLGS shelf.

Cheers,

Nick Middleton