Jump to content

Targentha

Member
 View Profile  See their activity

  • Posts

    4

  • Joined

  • Last visited

 Content Type 

Posts posted by Targentha

    What was your favourite version of RQ to date and why?

    in RuneQuest

    Posted

    15 hours ago, lawrence.whitaker said:

    On the GW edition of RQIII, I disagree.

    Here was a very popular game that had suddenly been priced out of the UK gamers' pocket. What GW attempted to do was release a Quickstart version, at a pocket money price (I think the softcover 'basic' book cost £4.99, if memory serves) in a bid to i) get RQ into the hands of UK gamers at an affordable price; ii) widen its appeal. They quickly followed-up the basic book with the Advanced book and Monsters and these were, again, affordable. I actually really like the GW edition of RQIII and I think it was a genuine attempt to promote the game in a way that countered the hideous costs of the AH editions. I was working for Virgin Games in Leeds at the time, and I remember that it sold pretty well when it came out.

    If you view the GW RQIII basic book as a quickstart version, it was actually ahead of its time.

    Still a relative newcomer here , still finding my way round RQ and I can say the GW/Avalon Hill hardcovers have help in converting me out of a TSR/AD&D (1st and 2nd) 'splat book' never ending quest to get them all to play - when these books are self contained and a good 'journey starter' collection of rules - to build from and adapt. 

    RQ3 is pretty much my intro to Runequest specifically, with The Design Mechanisms own RQ6 getting me interested initially in D100 mechanics when it was originally released.

×
×
  • Create New...