My name is Michael and I am a roleplayer.
I have been in the hobby since 1984, back in the good old days when White Dwarf was OUR magazine and it was the source for reviews of everything new. I must have first heard of Runequest back then and its relatives, like almost everyone else I missed Ringworld despite being a fan of the books but a friend has a copy so I have seen it. I remember looking at what must have been RQ II in Leisure World in Belfast back when they had a good selection of RPG material, indeed back when they were still open, but my first copy was the Avalon Hill edition of RQ III and the next one the Mongoose version.
My brother's second RPG, was Call of Cthulhu and he is still playing it, indeed we seem to spend more time playing CoC than everything else put together. At the moment we are playing the Wild West variant from the magazine Worlds of Cthulhu though we seem to be ignoring most of the changes they made to the system so when the suggestion of a Wild West version of RQ was suggested on the Mongoose forum I was immediately interested – and was eventually led here.