<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div>I think the real reason why Mongoose called their second version of the game "RuneQuest II" is because they published the first one under an OGL licence, which they now want to get rid of.<br><br>After all, a lot of roleplaying games exist with second, third, fifth, etc. editions and MRQII is the only one I know in which the edition has been included in the name. Except perhaps "*Advanced* Dungeons & Dragons".<br></div><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><br>In short, I see a difference between calling a game "RuneQuest II" and "RuneQuest, 2nd edition".<br><br><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">De :</span></b> Simon Phipp
<soltakss@yahoo.com><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">À :</span></b> runequest@rpgreview.net<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Envoyé le :</span></b> Mer 3 novembre 2010, 21h 15min 05s<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Objet :</span></b> Re: [Runequest] Runequest II<br></font><br><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 style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><br></div><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Simon</div><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><br><br></div></div><div style=""></div>
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