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Old January 24th, 2008
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Do any of the grognards here know what the staus is of the RQIV/RQAIG project?
Status=Dead.

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Who actually holds the copyright for it?
Greg Stafford/Issaries owns the copywrite to RuneQuest. Of course if the game system got a facelift, new name, and a change in terminology, anyone could release it.

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Does anyone remember what the major sticking points with it were?
The author got arrested for some sort of sexual misconduct. I believe the charge was statutory rape. Unfortunately, the media played this up as "the evils of RPGs" like they did with D&D years ago, and it draw a lot of negative publicity. Killing the project.

Mechanically the game was stillf is a rought draft/playtest version and not everything had been worked out. THere were a few changes and not all had been tested.

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I just saved all of the digests I could so that I could go through them but getting a synopsis would be appreciated.
There is a playtest version of the rules kicking around. Sounds like our local beetle has one.
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