glorantha

[golden wheel dancer]

So do you think Greg Stafford will license out First Age Glorantha to Chaosium to use with BRP? Or better still use first age for Heroquest and licence out 3rd age to be used with BRP. That really would be back to the good old days!

Think there is any likelihood?

[Trifletraxor]

I would have liked that. Can't see it happening though.

SGL.

[golden wheel dancer]

why couldnt it happen?

First Age and Godtime etc are free for development.

But perhaps there are politics of which I am unaware.

It would be so cool

[Trifletraxor]

Originally Posted by golden wheel dancer

why couldnt it happen?

First Age and Godtime etc are free for development.

But perhaps there are politics of which I am unaware.

It would be so cool

First Age is open for development, that's right. (I can't see Godtime being suitable for BRP though, that's more HQ-material).

I don't see it happening for two reasons:
1) If Chaosium would do it, they would have to pay Greg for a license. As they are publishing some settings on their own, I doubt they would spend money on Glorantha now.
2) If someone else should do it, they would have to pay both Greg and Chaosium. Financially that would probably be difficult.

But yes, it would be way cool!

SGL.

[NickMiddleton]

Originally Posted by golden wheel dancer

why couldnt it happen?

Pop quiz: who said, during the first big thread about Mongoose doing RuneQuest at RPGNet that the intent was to create "the same system but not the same copyright words"?

Who's website still says RuneQuest was/is a very poor system to represent Glorantha ( here )?

First Age and Godtime etc are free for development.

But perhaps there are politics of which I am unaware.

It would be so cool

Meh. Stafford and Chaosium couldn't come to a deal two years ago for whatever reason (if they even tried), I can't seeing them doing so now and frankly, Glorantha will not help sales of the new BRP: it's already supported by two in print rule systems in different eras and even if Mongoose would countenance another licensee (which, given the apparent terms of their Traveller license, I doubt), I really don't think the market would sustain it.

Cheers,

Nick Middleton

[Trifletraxor]

Originally Posted by NickMiddleton

Pop quiz: who said, during the first big thread about Mongoose doing RuneQuest at RPGNet that the intent was to create "the same system but not the same copyright words"?

Was that actually said openly? By who? Mongoose or Stafford?

SGL.

[Atgxtg]

Yeah, I think there is some bad blood between Greg and what is left of Chaosium. It was originally Greg's company, and in the mid 90s, Chaosium did split off into three different companies, with Issaries being the Glorantha company.

While Chaosium could probably broker a deal. I don't think they want to. I think if they were interested in publishing more Glorantha they would have produced HeroQuest.

I really doubt you'll see Greg and Chaosium working together on something again. Otherwise I doubt there evern would have been an MRQ.

[Lord Twig]

Originally Posted by Trifletraxor

Was that actually said openly? By who? Mongoose or Stafford?

SGL.

Gotta love Google.

You can find the quote here: RPGnet Forums - View Single Post - Mongoose doing Runequest?

[soltakss]

RQ came first.

BRP came second.

BRP was RQ with bits filed off. CoC's BRP was BRP with bits filed off. Ringworld was RQ3 with bits added on. Stormbringer was BRP with bits filed off and bits added on.

They are all interconnected.

Where's the problem?

[Trifletraxor]

The game will be the same system, not the same copyrighted words.

...

- Greg Stafford

What a dork!

SGL.