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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-AU link=blue vlink=purple style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>Steve Perrin was also a founding member of the Society for Creative Anachronism - SCA. So his passing touches a number of groups outside gaming.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>He will be missed.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US> Runequest <runequest-bounces@rpgreview.net> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Vile Traveller<br><b>Sent:</b> Sunday, 29 August 2021 6:34 AM<br><b>To:</b> runequest@rpgreview.net<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Runequest] In paradisum, Steve Perrin<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Like most of us I never met Steve, though I corresponded with him by email regarding SPQR, and also via Facebook. However, as I mentioned elsewhere: <a href="https://dreamscapedesign.net/2021/08/14/steve-perrin-1946-2021/">https://dreamscapedesign.net/2021/08/14/steve-perrin-1946-2021/</a>, he was far and away the single most influential person on my gaming life - which means a substantial portion of my life, period. Although he was ill for a long time his death was still a shock, as he was so much more concerned about Luise. It's good to see she has access to the GoFundMe (though I shall never understand how the US can tolerate such a situation!), and I wish her the best.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Lev, what are your thoughts regarding SPQR, when you say you'd like to revive that?<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Wed, 18 Aug 2021 at 03:01, <<a href="mailto:runequest-request@rpgreview.net">runequest-request@rpgreview.net</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></div><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0cm'><p class=MsoNormal>Send Runequest mailing list submissions to<br> <a href="mailto:runequest@rpgreview.net" target="_blank">runequest@rpgreview.net</a><br><br>To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit<br> <a href="http://rpgreview.net/mailman/listinfo/runequest_rpgreview.net" target="_blank">http://rpgreview.net/mailman/listinfo/runequest_rpgreview.net</a><br>or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to<br> <a href="mailto:runequest-request@rpgreview.net" target="_blank">runequest-request@rpgreview.net</a><br><br>You can reach the person managing the list at<br> <a href="mailto:runequest-owner@rpgreview.net" target="_blank">runequest-owner@rpgreview.net</a><br><br>When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific<br>than "Re: Contents of Runequest digest..."<br><br><br>Today's Topics:<br><br> 1. In paradisum, Steve Perrin (Lev Lafayette)<br> 2. Re: In paradisum, Steve Perrin (Tal Meta)<br> 3. Blades of Shagal for RuneQuest (Lev Lafayette)<br><br><br>----------------------------------------------------------------------<br><br>Message: 1<br>Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2021 18:12:55 +1000<br>From: Lev Lafayette <<a href="mailto:lev@rpgreview.net" target="_blank">lev@rpgreview.net</a>><br>To: <a href="mailto:runequest@rpgreview.net" target="_blank">runequest@rpgreview.net</a><br>Subject: [Runequest] In paradisum, Steve Perrin<br>Message-ID: <<a href="mailto:1629187975.3973.16.camel@rpgreview.net" target="_blank">1629187975.3973.16.camel@rpgreview.net</a>><br>Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"<br><br>A few days ago (August 13) Steve Perrin passed away (<a href="https://www.chaosi" target="_blank">https://www.chaosi</a><br><a href="http://um.com/blogvale-and-farewell-steve-perrin-1946-2021/" target="_blank">um.com/blogvale-and-farewell-steve-perrin-1946-2021/</a>), aged 75. It has<br>taken some time for me to compose my thoughts on this.<br><br>Steve Perrin was the lead author of RuneQuest by Chaosium, the first<br>roleplaying game I participated in, and one of the most influential<br>books (<a href="https://tcpip.dreamwidth.org/167593.html" target="_blank">https://tcpip.dreamwidth.org/167593.html</a>) in my life. His wife,<br>Luise Perenne was responsible for the iconic cover of that 1978 book.<br>Unlike other FRPGs that essentially provided late 20th century life<br>transported to a fantasy setting, with RuneQuest there was a greater<br>fantastic and immersive quality of a premodern worldview. The game<br>design was firmly based on the principles of "playable realism", and<br>the writing was a superb example of clarity, depth, and brevity.<br><br>Steve Perrin was also the author or co-author of several other RPGs,<br>including Worlds of Wonder, Stormbringer, ElfQuest, and Superworld.<br>Overall, he contributed or wrote almost one hundred publications for a<br>variety of roleplaying games and publishers. Superworld has been cited<br>as the game that inspired the famous Wild Cards series, edited by<br>George R.R. Martin, and Perrin was the creator of three of the<br>characters in that series. He was also a founding member of the Society<br>for Creative Anachronism (SCA) in 1966, and worked in the<br>console/computer game industry in the 1980s, doing game design and<br>writing manuals.<br><br>If records serve me correctly, it was in 2005 that Steve and I started<br>to correspond, initially through a playtest mailing lists for the<br>Mongoose edition of RuneQuest, and then with other RuneQuest mailing<br>lists, the Deluxe Basic Role Playing list, and the Quest rules mailing<br>list for his own (never finished) game that effectively combined<br>RuneQuest and the Hero System (which he'd also worked on) called SPQR<br>(Steve Perrin Quest Rules), which I used for the Questworld by<br>Chaosium.<br><br>Steve was kind enough to be an interview subject for the first edition<br>(<a href="https://rpgreview.net/files/rpgreview_1.pdf)of" target="_blank">https://rpgreview.net/files/rpgreview_1.pdf)of</a> the online RPG 'zine<br>that I founded, RPG Review, in 2008 as well as writing an article for<br>that issue on how RuneQuest was designed. Ten years later, when I<br>organised the third RuneQuest Glorantha Con Down Under (the first in<br>some twenty years!) he wrote an article<br>(<a href="https://rpgreview.net/files/rpgreview_40.pdf" target="_blank">https://rpgreview.net/files/rpgreview_40.pdf</a>) in RPG Review issue 40<br>on how RuneQuest happened, which included the revelation that<br>Glorantha's Ducks were effectively the Hobbits of the world, except<br>with a fatalistic and even morbid personality.<br><br>We were friends on Facebook, of course. Whilst I never met the man in<br>person, what I did know of him was that he was always considerate,<br>open-minded, creative, clear-headed, and polite. These are good<br>qualities for a person to carry even most of the time, but Steve did so<br>without variation. He was incredibly influential during my formative<br>years, and it was an honour and a pleasure to correspond and work with<br>him over the past sixteen years.<br><br>I have even started looking at the correspondence we shared SPQR. I'd<br>like to revive that, in his honour. For aesthetic reasons, I think it<br>should be set in the late Roman Republic, Senatus PopulusQue Romanus.<br>It's the least I can do.<br><br>In paradisum deducant te Angeli, Steve Perrin. Thank you.<br><br><a href="https://tcpip.dreamwidth.org/324081.html" target="_blank">https://tcpip.dreamwidth.org/324081.html</a><br><br>Photos of Steve and Luise's wedding some fifty years ago!<br><a href="https://www.facebook.com/rangleme/posts/10158691751544685" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/rangleme/posts/10158691751544685</a><br><br><br><br>------------------------------<br><br>Message: 2<br>Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2021 09:13:59 -0400<br>From: Tal Meta <<a href="mailto:talmeta@talmeta.net" target="_blank">talmeta@talmeta.net</a>><br>To: RuneQuest Rules <<a href="mailto:runequest@rpgreview.net" target="_blank">runequest@rpgreview.net</a>><br>Subject: Re: [Runequest] In paradisum, Steve Perrin<br>Message-ID: <<a href="mailto:3d436dd7-8862-62a9-26d9-e67a33448431@talmeta.net" target="_blank">3d436dd7-8862-62a9-26d9-e67a33448431@talmeta.net</a>><br>Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed<br><br>On 8/17/2021 04:12, Lev Lafayette wrote:<br>> A few days ago (August 13) Steve Perrin passed away (<a href="https://www.chaosi" target="_blank">https://www.chaosi</a><br>> <a href="http://um.com/blogvale-and-farewell-steve-perrin-1946-2021/" target="_blank">um.com/blogvale-and-farewell-steve-perrin-1946-2021/</a>), aged 75. It has<br>> taken some time for me to compose my thoughts on this.<br>><br>> In paradisum deducant te Angeli, Steve Perrin. Thank you.<br><br><br>Thanks for letting us know, Lev. I know I too, shall miss him. :(<br><br>------------------------------<br><br>Subject: Digest Footer<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Runequest mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Runequest@rpgreview.net" target="_blank">Runequest@rpgreview.net</a><br><a href="http://rpgreview.net/mailman/listinfo/runequest_rpgreview.net" target="_blank">http://rpgreview.net/mailman/listinfo/runequest_rpgreview.net</a><br><br><br>------------------------------<br><br>End of Runequest Digest, Vol 93, Issue 1<br>****************************************<o:p></o:p></p></blockquote></div></div></div></body></html>