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Originally Posted by Atgxtg
I think their ownership of the name, RuneQuest, expired. That is how Greg managed to buy it up. The domain on the other hand, Hasbro owns. They might be willing to sell it now. I think letting the name lapse was an oversight.
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Sorry, yeah that was what I meant. I contacted them about the domain when my new RQ enthusiasm was lit by the Mongoose promise of more RQ goodies. It was a flat no then at least. Got
runequest.info instead, and started up a website there, but now only a Glorantha link list remain which have now been taken over by Chris Holden.
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Originally Posted by Rurik
The sad thing however for many old RQ fans is that:
Not that any of this is your fault, or Chaosiums. But I share in the pain of RQ grognards like Triff and company.
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Yup. Glorantha is gone for me now, which is sad because I had a lot of fun in it. Greg's "new" Glorantha never caught my interest though. I would have loved to see Gwenthia for BRP, as it seems to have similar potential. A lot of BRP success will be dependent on it getting some really good settings, with support by good material published for it.
I don't like the shift from hit locations to the major wound table from Stormbringer at all, but won't like to do a lot of conversion work either. I'll probably go with rolling for hit location (so you can have different armor), and say damage above 50% of total results as below 0 HP in that location for RQ, 100% of total leads to sever/maim, and death at -POW HP or any round below 0 total HP that you don't succeed with a POW x5 roll (or if severing/maiming a vital location).
Yup and I have somewhat dislike for the new magic system from what I've heard from it so far.
I would have preferred to play the real RQ in Glorantha with new material, but BRP with a lot of supplement in the line is the second best thing, so I'm happy with that!
SGL.