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@Simon: I have avoided Mongoose products after their rather shabby
treatment of Steve Perrin & us Old Grognards of Runequest. So I
can't really comment on any of the MRQ versions (I only saw the
first playtest version before they shafted the original Mopgoose
playtesters). Other than that I totally agree with you on your list
other than perhaps fitting RQ1 & RQ0 (the playtest version - I
evidently own the last extant copy & still in the original brown
binder) just beneath RQ2. Out of curiosity, how would you fit BRP
into that list?<br>
Sköl,<br>
Sven<br>
On 11/3/2010 1:15 PM, Simon Phipp wrote:
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;
font-size: 10pt;">There was a proposed RQ4 in the 1990s that
was never published.</div>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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font-size: 10pt;">RQ2</div>
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font-size: 10pt;">MRQ1</div>
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<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;
font-size: 10pt;">However, other people will definitely
disagree ...</div>
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<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;
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