Vedr. Re: [Rq-rules] RQ/Glorantha licensing

[Steve Perrin]

First thing to keep in mind is that RuneQuest was developed for Glorantha, 
not Glorantha for RuneQuest. Greg had already published board games and a 
magazine (Wyrms Footnotes) for Glorantha before he asked me to develope the 
RPG, and I was the third entity so asked. The first was Dave Hargrave, who 
just tried to describe Glorantha characters in terms of his 
already-developing Arduin Grimoire. The second was a group consisting of 
Arthur and Ray Turney and Henrik Pfeiffer, who were still very attached to 
D&D tropes.

At Greg's request I joined that group and took a lot of their concepts to 
their ultimate end, thereby creating the classless, skill-based, XP-less 
game system. I also tacked on some concepts like Strike Ranks that I had 
earlier developed for the local version of D&D. I actually consider that a 
mistake, these days, but a lot of people still like them.

So my team, which still included Ray Turney, developed RuneQuest and 
hammered it into a fit into Glorantha. It was probably too detail and 
sim-oriented for what Greg really wanted (see HeroQuest), but I was willing 
to do the work to get it into completion, so there we were. And there we 
have been ever since.

Maybe someday when I am old(er) and gray(er), I'll sit down and do the 
definitive world for RuneQuest. Or, more likely, SPQR. I still owe my 
subscribers a world for that version.

And now a word from our sponsor. For SPQR, see www.perrinworlds.com.

Steve Perrin

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Anders Swenson" <anders at california.com>
To: "Discussion of RuneQuest rules." <rq-rules at crashbox.com>
Sent: Sunday, May 06, 2007 10:36 AM
Subject: Re: Vedr. Re: [Rq-rules] RQ/Glorantha licensing


> On Sun, 06 May 2007 13:29:40 -0400
> "John Pare'" <parejf63 at hotmail.com> wrote:
>> I am surely not denying that, as I have seen good worlds for it.  Conan 
>> is
>> one.  I also have seen Runequest Talquest (Greyhawk), and several others.
>>  Hell, you can go Runequest in The Old World of Warhammer Fantasy.
>>
>> But in all, the name Runequest has become synonymous (spelling?) with
>> Glorantha.  A world created specifically for it...  I know, there was 
>> also
>> Vikings, Feudal Japan, Griffon Mountain, and others (produced for
>> Runequest).
>>
>> John
>
> Greg was working on a mystic Europe as an alternative world for RQ. It's 
> just
> that Glorantha is such an interestng place.
> --Anders
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