<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div>Harry Woolley:</div><div>> can any body explain to me why there is a runequest 11 as ther is 3 and 4? do the new additions? </div><div>> not inprove on the ones before,should it not be called 5 as it is a inproved version,</div><div style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt">RQ1 and RQ2 were brought out by Chaosium in the late 1970s and early 1980s.</div><div style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt">RQ3 was brought out by Avalon Hill, but written by Chaosium, in 1985.</div><div style="font-family:arial, helvetica,
sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt">There was a proposed RQ4 in the 1990s that was never published.</div><div style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt">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.</div><div style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt">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.</div><div style="font-family:arial, helvetica,
sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt">In my opinion, I would rank the versions as follows (best version at the top):</div><div style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt">RQ3</div><div style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt">MRQ2</div><div style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt">RQ2</div><div style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt">RQ4</div><div style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt">MRQ1</div><div style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt">However, other people will definitely disagree ...</div><div style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt">See Ya</div><div
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