[Rq-rules] Mongoose Runequest

[Den, Tony T]

You are lucky. What pass for  Con's where I live are usually a small
hall with a few stands from various shops, all selling the same gear. If
one is really lucky, one may pick up a second hand gem or tow. In terms
of games, its D&D, maybe a bit of White Wolf, Magic card game and some
mage knight/battletech and warhammer.

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[mailto:rq-rules-bounces at crashbox.com] On Behalf Of Styopa
Sent: 01 August 2006 16:22 PM
To: Discussion of RuneQuest rules.
Subject: Re: RE : [Rq-rules] Mongoose Runequest


The real problem being that while the market place for RPGs is becoming
increasingly fractious (in 1978 there was only really 1 set of rules out
there...then with each 'generation' of rules development it's at least
tripling the options), it's simultaneously withering generally.
Electronic gaming, for a whole host of reasons, has nearly swallowed the
RPG market.  I went to Gen Con in 1982, and it was a few middle-aged
dudes but mostly college/high school kids.  I went to Gen Con the last
year it was in MECCA and (if you looked ONLY at the RPG rooms) the
median age had crept up at least 8 years. 

Now look, even our beloved RQ (bifurcated along RQ2/RQ3 lines for
decades), calved of the HQ/HW fans, now will subdivide again into
"original" RQ (2 or 3), DBRP, and MRQ.

Sigh.  We're going to come to gaming conventions, have 10 people sit
around a table to play "RuneQuest" and have each person expecting a
different rules system.  As much as I dislike it as a system, that alone
was the value of the d20 concept, to re-unify the shrinking RPG
community.  But now we've all been spoiled by systems that cater to our
individual gaming predilections and the genie has escaped from the
bottle, I fear he shall never return. 


On 8/1/06, Den, Tony T <Tony.Den at standardbank.co.za> wrote: 

	You will never get it right. Problem is that a larrge portion of
role
	players all have their own ideas and needs and you will never be
able to
	please all of them. Then again, this talk of a 1000 page +
Advanced BRP
	book may be a ways to closing the gap.....
	
	-----Original Message-----
	Thomas Zunder
	
	
	Nope, sketchy like all of it.
	I resist the urge to form a company to write the definitive
'RuneQuest
	as it should have been written' books! 
	



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