Falconer

If that’s the case, one has to wonder if licensing the Young Kingdoms is their Plan A.

Not only will I use it, it’s the only RQ I will ever need, at least as far as I can foresee. First of all, I’m not a huge rules junkie, so, lighter is generally better, and new editions with their rules changes and additions don’t excite me but if anything turn me off. Secondly, I’m incentivized to run RQ2 because of all the great adventuring material available: Rainbow Mounds, Snakepipe Hollow, Duck Tower, Griffin Mountain, Big Rubble, and on and on. The ability to run them seamlessly is huge, for me.

What is the “regular” hardcover? Is that like most RPG hardcovers, with the cover art printed right on the cover? Not cloth with dust jacket, right?

I am so excited about the reprint. What a great time to be a gamer! No disrespect to all the game designers out there, but between classic AD&D, classic Runequest+Cthulhu, and classic Star Wars, I’ve got enough roleplaying goodness to last a lifetime!

http://adventuresandshopping.blogspot.com/2011/09/runequest-games-workshop-character.html

Yeah, I have lusted after that. I think it would just be cheaper to take my softcover in to a bookbinder and get it done.

Yeah, I have bought the PDF. I have just often heard that one of the problems with Glorantha is too much focus has been put on Dragon Pass/Sartar/Orlanthi, and yet, if this product is the only gazetteer of this region, I have to wonder: Is this all? It seems to lack the level of detail you find in, say, Griffin Mountain. Granted, there is more to cover. I am new to Glorantha, so I’m just not sure what other sources I should go to to fill in the gaps.

I bought the Griffin Mountain reprint, and then I had to hunt down used copies of RQ2, Cults of Prax, and Gateway Bestiary. They’re falling apart too quickly after use at the gaming table. I just thought how nice it would be to have a hardcover reprint.

Has this ever been reprinted, maybe as part of another book? And/or, will this level and style of detail on this specific region be included in the new Guide to Glorantha?

No offense, but, can’t we get past that way of thinking, yet? Don’t RQ6, Legend, Magic World/BRP, OpenQuest, HeroQuest, SPQR, and GORE already all “undermine” each other? People play all these. People also play OOP games like MRQII and Avalon Hill RQ3. People also play less-related games like Pathfinder and GURPS and a million other RPGs. They’re all designed to cater to different tastes. WOTC has learned that suppressing old editions doesn’t help the popularity of a new edition; that the new edition must stand or fall on its own merits—i.e., it really has to be BETTER in order to be competitive, not just in-print. In other words, if they did a RQ2 limited reprint, they might make a buck off it from the people who want it, but if RQ6 is really superior it won’t hurt RQ6.

(I wasn’t sure which forum was appropriate for a RQ2 topic. The RQ forum seems geared towards RQ6. RQ2 is at least unquestionably related to Glorantha.) There have lately been a lot of “premium reprints,”*“special editions,” etc., of famous RPGs. AD&D 1e, Call of Cthulhu, and Rolemaster 2e, to name a few. I have just been wondering. What would it take to see a similar limited, finely-bound reprint of the Runequest 2e combined with one or two supplements (Cults of Prax would definitely be good). Is there any demand for such a thing? Could the rights be negotiated?

Nick, You should probably set up the chaosium.com domain so that all email forwards to your account. I work in an organization as small as yours, and that’s what I do. Otherwise there would be a problem of mail getting lost and/or not answered. In my experience, customers HIGHLY value responses!