Introductions

[Sven Norén]

Hello, I'm Sven Norén and I am based in Uppsala, Sweden.

I started playing, like so many else, AD&D in the early 80:ies. After about two sittings I found the system somewhat less than satisfying. I went down to our FLGS and found the new and shiny RQ2 hardback on the shelf, and the rest is history. I have tried some other games: Fantasy Hero, TFT, T&T, Cyberpunk, and Space Opera, but always came back to RQ and other BRP games.

I have done more GM:ing than playing though. My players still talk about some special moments in our games, like when Punchem the troll wrestled a were-tiger while the others magicked their weapons to gut it (made a very hard-wearing rug.) Or the famous line: "The dragon opens one eye and says 'Think fast!'" Or when the duck with DEX 18 was the only one to fall from a slippery bridge - repeatedly. (Poor sod had played Roll Master the night before and his %dice were set to roll high.)

Over time I have collected almost everything there is to collect for RQ2, and lots of the Glorantha stuff for RQ3. I am contemplating selling the latter, look out on eBay....

[Sorloc]

Originally Posted by Sven Norén

Over time I have collected almost everything there is to collect for RQ2, and lots of the Glorantha stuff for RQ3. I am contemplating selling the latter, look out on eBay....

what have you got?

[phrog]

Howdy!

I've been playing RQ of various flavors since my college years in the early 1990s. I started off playing a lot of DnD, but RQ seemed to strike a chord with me; I've never really been able to play class-based systems since . Over the years I've assembled a pretty extensive collection of late 80s Chaosium products, and I'm very much looking forward to seeing the new BRP rule-sets.

I've recently started a small campaign for some friends and co-workers living here in the central Maine area - Gloranthan, mostly RQIII.

[Triff]

Originally Posted by phrog

I've recently started a small campaign for some friends and co-workers living here in the central Maine area - Gloranthan, mostly RQIII.

Howdy phrog!

Let me make an educated guess: Prax?

Welcome aboard!

Cheers,
Sverre.

[GerallKahla]

My name is Gerall Kahla (cunning how that username showed up like that, innit?), and I've been gaming since 1982 or so... Initial group was doing some AD&D, and it took me about 2 years to find all the other systems and games out there.

When I found RuneQuest 2nd ed, it changed the way I played roleplaying games. Picked up Ringworld, WoW, Stormbringer and Call of Cthulhu in short order, and spent a lot of time using the BRP system to do pan-dimensional universe hopping RPGs until college.

Then things calmed down for study, and afterwards I got back into gaming.

RQ 3 happened during my Dark Age, and didn't really float my boat as a system afterward. I've played lots and lots of other games, and they all seemed kind of interesting, but not as easy or deep as BRP. So, I'm a lifer. I'll be using BRP for a long, long time.

Best regards to everyone on the boards, and I'm looking forward to reading more about what people use this flexible system for.

-pax-

[tonyhough]

I bought my first RPG around '83 - '84 from the Guardroom in Dustable and it was RuneQuest II boxed set. I played it with my friends and loved it. I'm also a big fan of Call of Cthulhu and have played and ran some blinding games over the years.
The almost universal crapness of the illustrations in those early games was one of the driving forces behind my wish to become an illustrator and give these products the images to match the ones they aroused in my mind's eye.
I still find the D100 system to be the most flexible, intuitive and best all told, and boy! Have I tried a few in my time.
I've made overtures to Chaosium over the years about doing illustrations for them, but nothing's ever come of it, though I did some stuff for Cthulhu and Stormbringer scenarios in White Dwarf and GW's licensed version of RuneQuest: Griffin Island in the late '80's ( I also approached Mongoose but the fees they pay are so embarrassingly pityable I felt sorry for the guy I dealt with. Seriously, you'd get better money sweeping floors. So sod 'em.)
Still, I'll buy Chaosium's new D100 system book, naff cover or no. Maybe I should just pester Charlie Krank some more....

[badcat]

Hey, put up some samples here. You might sell some, too...you never know... How much would you charge as example for a download for someone to fancy up a homebrew? Just for kicks?

[tonyhough]

I bought my first RPG around '83 - '84 from the Guardroom in Dustable and it was RuneQuest II boxed set. I played it with my friends and loved it. I'm also a big fan of Call of Cthulhu and have played and ran some blinding games over the years.
The almost universal crapness of the illustrations in those early games was one of the driving forces behind my wish to become an illustrator and give these products the images to match the ones they aroused in my mind's eye.
I still find the D100 system to be the most flexible, intuitive and best all told, and boy! Have I tried a few in my time.
I've made overtures to Chaosium over the years about doing illustrations for them, but nothing's ever come of it, though I did some stuff for Cthulhu and Stormbringer scenarios in White Dwarf and GW's licensed version of RuneQuest: Griffin Island in the late '80's ( I also approached Mongoose but the fees they pay are so embarrassingly pityable I felt sorry for the guy I dealt with. Seriously, you'd get better money sweeping floors. So sod 'em.)
Still, I'll buy Chaosium's new D100 system book, naff cover or no. Maybe I should just pester Charlie Krank some more....

[Newt]

I've been BRPing in one form since I've been in short pants and although I've wandered off to run these new fangled games (HeroQuest, BurningWheel etc etc) I keep on coming back to roll the d100.

I help Tom, Darran and Graham Spearing run Furnace, a small burning RPG con in Sheffield UK, and regularly attend and run too many games at its elder brother Continuum.

Currently I'm working with the MRQ SRD to make a completely Free and OGL compliant d100 system, called SimpleQuest, which you can learn more about on the D101 Games website. Its due for release Dec 2007/Feb 2008 at the latest.

[Sven Norén]

Originally Posted by Sorloc

what have you got?

What haven't I got? Let's see:
> Boxed sets:
- Runequest DeLuxe 3rd ed.
- Gods of Glorantha
- Glorantha: Genertela, Crucible of the Hero Wars
- Elder Secrets of Glorantha
> Softbound books:
- Dorastor, Land of Doom
- River of Cradles
- Sun county
> Booklets:
- Shadows on the Borderlands
- Apple Lane
- Gloranthan Bestiary

In addition to this is a number of Tales of the Reaching Moon and Wyrm's Footprints. I'm just trying to figure out how to put this on eBay with the least hazzle.