[Rq-rules] MRQ "A Real Runequest Game"

[Wayne Shaw]

>Er, not so much. The changes between RQ and RQ II
>require a fanatic to know the difference (I believe
>the spelling of Glorantha and the use of d12 changed).
>RQIII was significantly different. RQIV was somewhat
>different to III, iirc. MRQ is very different. It's
>still in the family, but a very distant relation.

There were a few other things here and there, but you're correct that 
the two editions were substantially the same.


> >  Now, look at the changes in D&D, AD&D, AD&D
> > 2nd Ed, and 3.0, 3.5 and
> > god knows what they will do with the rumored 4.0.
>
>An interesting thing about D&D is that in each edition
>were improvements to the previous. I'm not sure one
>can say that MRQ is an improvement to RQ III or even
>I/II. Indeed, I am personally certain that it is not.

As someone who played OD&D at the time AD&D came out, I can't say I 
considered much they'd done with it an improvement (AD&D2 and 3e were 
a different story).