RuneQuest

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RuneQuest
publication
Author (s) Steve Perrin,
Ray Turney,
A. Steve Henderson,
Warren James
Greg Stafford (material on Glorantha)
Jeff Richard
Jason Durall
Original publisher Chaosium
Avalon Hill
Mongoose Publishing
Design Mechanism
Chaosium
Original publication 1978
original language English
German publisher World of Games
RuneQuest-Gesellschaft eV
Uhrwerk Verlag
German publication 1991/2015/2019?
World and system
genre Fantasy
Game world Glorantha
Basic system Basic role-playing
cube (W3), W4, W6, W8, W10, W12, W100

RuneQuest is a fantasy - role play , the first time in 1978 by the Californian company Chaosium published.

history

In 1979 a second edition came out. In 1984 the 3rd edition of RuneQuest was published by Avalon Hill , but Chaosium continued to develop it. The 3rd edition was distributed in German by the Welt der Spiele publishing house from 1991 onwards , but in 1997 the publisher lost its rights.

Since the fan base and Chaosium and the publisher Avalon Hill were divided on whether RuneQuest should remain firmly linked to the fantasy game world Glorantha or be more open and hardly any new products reached the market, the system lost more and more in the mid-90s Popularity. In 1997 Avalon Hill wanted to release the revised RuneQuest Slayers, single-handedly, without the involvement of Chaosium. This did not happen, however, as the takeover negotiations between Avalon Hill and Hasbro suspended the publication date. RuneQuest Slayers can now be downloaded as freeware under the title Runeslayers .

In 1998, Avalon Hill was taken over by the Hasbro group of companies. Since 2003 the naming rights of RuneQuest belong to the company Issaries, Inc. and in 2005 the British publisher Mongoose Publishing announced in a press release that a new edition of the game was planned. This 4th edition of the RuneQuest rules first appeared in the summer of 2006 in the form of a basic rule book, followed by numerous expansion volumes.

Mongoose Publishing has published most of the rules of the 4th Edition as a freely available System Reference Document (SRD), in English. This enables interested manufacturers of game worlds and adventures to use the rules of RuneQuest for their own purposes free of charge. Interested parties can use the SRD to get to know RuneQuest free of charge and use it as a digital reference work.

In January 2010 Mongoose Publishing released RuneQuest II . The cooperation between Mongoose and Issaries was dissolved again in May 2011 and the basic rules - detached from the game world Glorantha and the name RuneQuest - are now being distributed under the name Legend.

A sixth edition was published by The Design Mechanism in July 2012, the German edition of which has been available as a PDF file since December 2014.

In October 2015, the RuneQuest Society announced a German print edition. The financing was secured through a successful crowdfunding campaign on the Startnext platform on March 20, 2016. The finished edition was presented at SPIEL'16 and the delivery to the crowdfunding supporters took place from October 2016. Chaosium's 3-year contract with The Design Mechanism was not extended, as Chaosium intends to publish a new edition itself, so that the basic rules were continued under the name Mythras from August 2016. The German edition of the Mythras rule book of the RuneQuest-Gesellschaft eV appeared after the sale of the RuneQuest 6 rule books in October 2017.

An almost unedited new edition of the second edition is being worked on by the current owner of the rights, Chaosium (initially only as an English edition). Financing was secured through a successful crowdfunding campaign on the Kickstarter platform on December 22, 2015, and printing was completed in April 2016.

On June 1, 2018, Chaosium published (initially as a PDF, print version planned for August 2018) RuneQuest: Roleplaying in Glorantha , a further development of RuneQuest 2 taking into account elements of the role-playing games RuneQuest 3, Pendragon and HeroQuest, which Glorantha has been with for the first time since 1983 merges the control system.

On June 13, 2018, Uhrwerk-Verlag announced that it holds the German-language license for RuneQuest.

In September 2018 the 100 Questen Gesellschaft eV was founded by German fans of the W100 game system and took over the publication of the German edition of MYTHRAS from the RuneQuest-Gesellschaft eV on October 20, 2018
Background:
After the announcement by the Uhrwerk-Verlag, the German Edition of RuneQuest: Publishing Roleplaying in Glorantha should avoid confusion about the name RuneQuest and thus lead to the withdrawal of the RuneQuest-Gesellschaft eV from MYTHRAS. Instead, the RuneQuest Society eV will support the new RuneQuest: Roleplaying in Glorantha .

Control system

RuneQuest uses the basic role-playing rules, which form the basis of role-playing games such as Call of Cthulhu , Sturmbringer , Hawkmoon , Corum , Worlds of Wonder , SuperWorld , ElfQuest , Ringworld or Nephilim.

The core mechanisms include:

  • Actions are processed on the basis of a percentage system, ie the use of a skill has, for example, a certain percentage chance of success
  • Universal magic system (divided into shamanistic, divine and hermetic magic) in which every character can learn and use magic
  • direct experience, ie as soon as a skill has been used successfully, there is a likelihood of improvement

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ rollenspiel-info.de
  2. ↑ Runeslayers Main ( Memento from July 16, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) (English)
  3. ↑ NASH Pete and WHITAKER Lawrence, RuneQuest II , Mongoose Publishing, January 2010, Hardback cover, 198 p., ISBN 978-1-907218-15-6
  4. ^ RuneQuest II Becomes Wayfarer. Archived from the original on May 23, 20111 ; accessed on December 16, 2014 . Mongoose Publishing website. Retrieved May 25, 2011.
  5. ↑ Startnext.com
  6. ↑ RuneQuest 6 - The legendary fantasy role-playing game - Startnext crowdfunding campaign at Startnext. Retrieved April 2, 2016
  7. ^ "RuneQuest: Classic Edition" - Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter. Retrieved April 14, 2016
  8. ↑ German license now at Uhrwerk Uhrwerk announces on Facebook that it has received the license from Chaosium. Retrieved June 13, 2018.
  9. ↑ Who are we ..? Website of the 100 Questen Gesellschaft eV. Accessed December 19, 2018
  10. ↑ MYTHRAS now at 100 Quests News from October 1, 2018 Retrieved December 19, 2018
  11. ↑ MYTHRAS switches to 100 quests News from October 13, 2018 Accessed on December 19, 2018
  12. ↑ RuneQuest-Gesellschaft eV ends publication of Mythras role-playing game. Press release from RuneQuest-Gesellschaft eV, The Design Mechanism and 100 Questen Gesellschaft eV. Accessed on December 19, 2018