<p dir="ltr">In that case if I were preparing a RuneQuest family tree (which I'm not, at the moment, although it's an interesting idea) those versions of D&D might be connected to the main RQ family by a dotted line...indicating a sort of bastardry, as it were. :-)</p>
<p dir="ltr">But the whole thing would be a nightmare to diagram. I certainly don't know enough about the proper ways to indicate relationships to do it. And diagramming all the crazy stuff that went on with the rights to the RuneQuest name, and Glorantha, and the copyright to the texts of the various versions of the rules, and re-creations of the rules with different words...it's just too much.</p>
<p dir="ltr">A couple of lists would be nice, though. Particularly one with links to everyone who is selling or legally distributing systems substantially related to the original rules.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Which reminds me, did anyone mention Ringworld yet? And there was RQIV: Adventures In Glorantha. I don't suppose that that rune-based RPG that Avalon Hill was working on ("Slayers", wasn't it?) would be anything more than a footnote. By all accounts it wasn't related to D100 at all.</p>
<p dir="ltr">I'm surprised there aren't more foreign-language versions, of RQ, though.</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Nov 20, 2013 11:55 PM, "Styopa" <<a href="mailto:styopa1@gmail.com">styopa1@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<p dir="ltr">I believe I either read it in an interview, or saw his comment in an email that Skip Williams was a huge rq3 fan and definitely (at least) was inspired by rq3 when writing the stat-modified skill rules in d&d 3.</p>
<p dir="ltr">-Styopa</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Nov 20, 2013 10:45 PM, "Peter Maranci" <<a href="mailto:pmaranci@gmail.com" target="_blank">pmaranci@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<p dir="ltr">Lev, are they definitely derived from RQ/BRP? or is the connection more tenuous?</p>
<p dir="ltr">I've also heard rumors that some of the skill rules in the WOTC versions of D&D were derived from house rules which were themselves partly based on Avalon Hill's RQIII. But I never got confirmation of that.</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Nov 20, 2013 11:35 PM, "Lev Lafayette" <<a href="mailto:lev@rpgreview.net" target="_blank">lev@rpgreview.net</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
"Eclipse Phase" probably counts as well, if it hasn't already been mentioned.<br>
<br>
There's a couple of interesting variations on that system as well;<br>
critical results are based on doubles (11,22,33 etc) and the range is from<br>
00-99, not 01-00. Which makes 00 the best possible roll.<br>
<br>
Another is "Unknown Armies"; it too uses d100 roll-under, doubles for<br>
critical results, and has flip-flopping (change a 74 to a 24) for<br>
obsession skills,<br>
<br>
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