Your mounts are thirsty and weary. The green lands of home are many days behind. You ride into peril and fate unforeseen for the dangers, monsters, and powers ahead are vast. But you and your friends are tough and cunning. You have mastered many of RuneQuest's hundreds of magical spells and conditions. You have chosen well from over 80 weapons and 11 types of armor. Each of you is different and individual -- you belong to definite cultures, your parents taught you crafts, trades, and skills. You have joined together to accomplish heroic deeds, and the mightiest evil will pause before your determined fellowship. RuneQuest unites game and imaginative reality. The combat rules are drawn from the author's long experience with hand-to-hand combat. Using the magic rules you can recreate any wizard or mage of fiction or film, or create new ones yet undreamed of. By manipulating a few basic values you can play individual and unique adventures drawn from ten intelligent species.
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One of the best BRPs to ever see print!,
By Cameron (Brisbane AUSTRALIA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Avalon Hill Runequest 3rd Deluxe Edition (Bookcase Game) (Paperback)
No matter how many other rpgs I have seen over the years, I still return to Runequest. I am grateful for my cousin for first introducing me to the 2nd edition back in my early teens, and I eagerly bought the 3rd edition in my later teens. Since then I have been involved in other rpgs on and off for almost 20years, but I often return to GM a game with the RQ system when I can.
Chaosium should of held onto the rights for the system and the Glorantha world, rather than move into Stormbringer. The current Call of Cthuhlu rules are a version of these rules, but it can be a limited at times in it's scope due to the limits of the world setting. Runequest, with all it's quirks and sometimes amateurish publications, firmly remains one of the best roleplaying systems I have ever seen, easily playable in any genre. With minimal adaption it can be played in a typical Tolkienesque style fantasy setting (I have played it in Middle Earth, and it works fine), but it's own world of Glorantha was just as rich, with more elements in common with Ancient Rome or the Norse sagas. Any gamemaster worth his salt should own a copy of the Runequest 2nd Edition rulebook or the Runequest 3rd Edition Deluxe Rulebook - this is fantasy rolepaying at it's height, when roleplaying was a spirited past time, and not just another marketable commodity to try and rival the computer game industry as it is today. Buy these books if you ever come across them!
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