<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div>Andrew:</div><div><br></div><div>> So which company has released/re-released RQ2 in order to attract new </div><div>> players?</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">Mongoose released a new version of their RuneQuest, which they called RQII. It is pretty good.</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">David Cake:</div><div style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt">>At 1:15 PM -0700 3/11/10, Simon Phipp wrote:</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):<br>>>RQ3<br>>>MRQ2<br>>>RQ2<br>>>RQ4<br>>>MRQ1<br>>><br>>>However, other people will definitely disagree ...<br>><br>> I'd disagree because I quite liked RQ4, and while I have vast nostalgia for RQ2 I always found it a bit </div><div style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt">> of a struggle in play.</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">RQ4, for me, was very wargamey. Combat was incredibly clunky, I found, with sectors and arcs and movement phases and whatever. I didn't like that part at all. RQ2 was very easy to play, I found, but RQ3 was a lot better.</div><div style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><br>> But I'm
definitely interested to hear your relatively high <br>> opinion of MRQ2. Particlarly interesting to me because MRQ always <br>> seemed to make quite an effort to extend to high level play, a <br>> traditional weakness of RQ2 especially - do you think MRQ2 would make <br>> for a good high level game?</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">No version of RQ has been very good for high level play.</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">Partly this has been due to the opinions of the designers (Greg Stafford has said that all PCs should retire once they reach Rune Level and even HeroQuest has been focussed on low level play) and partly because the RQ Percentile system creaks at high numbers and the Resistance table falls
down with high numbers.</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">MRQ2 has some nice ideas. However, it is no better for high level play than other versions of RQ. It deals a lot less damage out than in earlier versions of RQ, which means that larger/stronger creatures don't deal out excessive damage and improves scalability.</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">I play RQ3 for my campaign, but with bits thrown in from RQ2, RQ4 and MRQ1/2.</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">David Cake:</div><div style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt">> My understanding is that the Basic Roleplaying System
<br>> currently offered by Chaosium<br>> <a href="http://basicroleplaying.com/content.php/34-Basic-Roleplaying" target="_blank">http://basicroleplaying.com/content.php/34-Basic-Roleplaying</a><br>> seems to be some bits of rules from Call of Cthulhu, some <br>> from RQ3, with the rules for magic/other extraordinary powers from <br>> several different settings (Stormbringer, Hawkmoon, Elfquest, <br>> Superworld, etc). Several of the supplements for it look to be <br>> straight RQ3 reissues, though.</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">It is based more on Stormbringer than RQ3 - I tried to get it based on RQ3 but that wasn't happening. </div><div style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><br>> Anyone taken a look at it?</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">It's pretty good but should be expanded to cover the main genres. Hopefully this will happen in future supplements.</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></div></div><div style="position:fixed"></div>
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