[Rq-rules] Re: MERP

[Stephen Posey]

---- Discussion of RuneQuest rules. <rq-rules at crashbox.com> wrote:
>
> Bo Whitten skrev:
> > At 01:58 AM 1/9/2007, you wrote:
> >> The MERP ruleset is awful and not at all suited to Middle Earth but is a big improvement on RM.
> > 
> > Especially since it came out 10 years before RM! LOL
> 
> The components that make up RM predate MERP, they may not have been 
> branded as RM at the time but the RM rules are older than MERP:s.

My recollection is that even the earliest ads in Dragon magazine for Arms Law/Spell Law referred to the system as "RoleMaster" or "The RoleMaster System" or some such.  

This would have been around 1979-80 IIRC, whence I think MERP was still a couple of years down the road.

I'll have to check my Dragon magazine on CD collection to verify.

Stephen Posey
slposey at concentric.net