[Runequest] Runequest II

[Simon Phipp]

Harry Woolley:
> can any body explain to me why there is a runequest 11 as ther is 3 and 4? do 
>the new additions? 
> not inprove on the ones before,should it not be called 5 as it is a inproved 
>version,


RQ1 and RQ2 were brought out by Chaosium in the late 1970s and early 1980s.

RQ3 was brought out by Avalon Hill, but written by Chaosium, in 1985.

There was a proposed RQ4 in the 1990s that was never published.

Mongoose brought out a new version of RuneQuest (MRQ1) in 2005 (?) as Issaries 
Inc had the rights to RuneQuest (I believe). That version was full of holes and 
wasn't very good from a rules point of view.

Mongoose brought out a new version of RuneQuest (MRQ2), which they called 
RuneQuest II (as the earlier versions clearly meant nothing to them). This was a 
lot better, ruleswise, and is a vast improvement on MRQ1.

In my opinion, I would rank the versions as follows (best version at the top):
RQ3
MRQ2
RQ2
RQ4
MRQ1

However, other people will definitely disagree ...

See Ya

Simon
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