<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=iso-8859-1"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">For history, it is also worth looking at Shannon Apelclines series of history of the RPG industry articles on rpgnet, all under the title "A Brief History of Game:..". His history is organised mostly via company rather than game system, so there isn't a history of RuneQuest specifically, but if you are interested in the history of RuneQuest you would probably find particularly useful:<div><a href="http://www.rpg.net/columns/briefhistory/briefhistory3.phtml">http://www.rpg.net/columns/briefhistory/briefhistory3.phtml</a> Part #3, the history of Chaosium 1975-present (where 'present' means 2006, the year of publication)</div><div>and</div><div><a href="http://www.rpg.net/columns/briefhistory/briefhistory7.phtml">http://www.rpg.net/columns/briefhistory/briefhistory7.phtml</a> Part #7, Interlude: The Chaosium Connections - showing all the various licensses etc including an excellent chart. </div><div>and if you are interested in Glorantha in general as well as RQ (the two being obviously somewhat interrelated) </div><div><a href="http://www.rpg.net/columns/briefhistory/briefhistory4.phtml">http://www.rpg.net/columns/briefhistory/briefhistory4.phtml</a> Part #4 Issaries Inc. 1998-2006</div><div><br></div><div>Shannon has written for RuneQuest, and worked for Chaosium, at various times, and is a long term member of Glorantha fandom etc so he knows his history pretty well, plus he got some input from Greg Stafford etc.</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>David<br><div><br><div><div>On 17/04/2013, at 10:32 PM, Peter Maranci <<a href="mailto:pmaranci@gmail.com">pmaranci@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div>That article is badly in need of updating, of course. But I haven't monitored developments with RQ very closely for the last few years. Something or other keeps happening to pretty much put me off modern iterations of the system, and then I just can't work up the interest or will to deal with the topic. Perhaps if things had been different I might have tried to write something commercial for the system some day. But as it is, I end up feeling lousy whenever I deal with modern aspects of RQ.<br>
<br></div>So I continue to run my classic RQ3/BRP campaign, and post stuff to my site when I get ideas and the energy to write them up.<br><br></div>If anyone would like to bring the "History of RQ" article on my site up to date or suggest additions, I'm certainly open to that. Drop me a line!<br>
<br></div>->Peter<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 8:35 AM, Styopa <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:styopa1@gmail.com" target="_blank">styopa1@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">"History of Runequest" has already largely been done through 2011 quite nicely <a href="http://www.maranci.net/rqpast.htm" target="_blank">http://www.maranci.net/rqpast.htm</a><div>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 7:28 AM, Tony Den <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:postmaster@runequest.za.org" target="_blank">postmaster@runequest.za.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Lawrence Whitaker wrote:<br>
> Hi Tony,<br>
><br>
> Yes, RQ is now at The Design Mechanism. We have our first supplement<br>
> already released - 'Book of Quests' is a scenario collection available<br>
> immediately in PDF and will be on sale in print copy in about 10 days.<br>
> We're following this up with 'Monster Island', a sandbox setting, in June,<br>
> and later this year should also see 'Mythic Greece', 'Mythic Briton' and<br>
> 'Shores of Korantia' released, so we have a lot in the pipeline.<br>
><br>
> I think a history of RQ article would be great. I can definitely help-out<br>
> on some of that, especially the Mongoose years, as I was the line<br>
> developer<br>
> during most of that time.<br>
<Snip><br>
<br>
Thanks Lawrence. Yes I saw your name on much of the free modules etc in<br>
Signs & Portents. Actually great news re the new stuff as I have been<br>
slowly aligning my disposable income to pick up RQ6 so waiting a few more<br>
weeks and getting extra will be worthwhile from a posting to the other<br>
side of the world perspective.<br>
<br>
What I will do is write up something and post it here. At same time I will<br>
write to Gygax mag and mention the concept and see if they keen. If so and<br>
based on whatever editing is done here - best case it will see publication<br>
and contributors names and exposure for RQ. Worse case it doesn't get<br>
published but we still have a fun excercise.<br>
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