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Unnatural Selections: Recent Chaosium Reviews of Note #5 - RuneQuest "one of the Great Games, a defining thing for our hobby..."
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 9th May 2018
Ron Edwards, influential game design theorist, Diana Jones award winner, co-founder of The Forge (and recent emigrant to Sweden) is currently running an on line RuneQuest Classic game, posting the videos of the sessions and writing up his thoughts. Three sessions in, Ron describes Run
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Sign up now for exclusive early access to downloadable content for RuneQuest: Roleplaying in Glorantha
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 7th May 2018
RuneQuest: Roleplaying in Glorantha is coming soon—SIGN UP HERE and we'll give you exclusive early access to downloadable RQG content (art, wallpapers, the RQG character sheet) over the coming weeks! We'll let you know the moment the PDF launches. If you buy the PDF, you get a coupon for t
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RuneQuest: Roleplaying in Glorantha is Coming—Sign up and we'll let you know the moment it launches!
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 4th May 2018
The new Chaosium edition of RUNEQUEST is coming soon! Sign up to be informed the moment the PDF comes on sale*. SIGN UP HEREAnd as a special bonus for signing up now, we'll also give you exclusive early access to downloadable RQG content (art, wallpapers, the RQG character sheet) ove
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What's Happening with RQG #3: Layout is done, preorders coming soon!
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 26th Apr 2018
Jeff and Jason have passed on some exciting news: layout and proofreading of RQG is all-but-done ("we're just doing some final finishing up and tweaks"). The book is truly both a thing of beauty, and also a very easy-to-use reference when playing the game.Stay tuned for an announcement soon about pr
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What's Happening with RQG #2: The Gods of Glorantha
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 19th Apr 2018
By Jeff RichardIn the last update I talked about what I could see on my computer screen of the awesome new layout for RQG. While on the subject of what is on the screen, I might as well talk about what I have been doing. I just finished the draft manuscript of The Gods of Glorantha, which is ab
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What's Happening with RQG #1: Deep into Layout!
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 15th Apr 2018
By Jeff RichardAn update on RuneQuest progress. We are deep in layout, and the book is looking absolutely amazing, thanks to the hard work of our layout guru Simeon Cogswell. In fact it is so amazing, I wanted to screen share a few pages from my computer to show you how this is shaping up.Now k
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Designing the New RuneQuest - Part 23
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 22nd Mar 2018
Where we are with RQGBy Jeff RichardGreetings Gloranthaphiles! I've been quiet on the social media front for the last few months concerning where we are with the new RuneQuest - that's not because we don't have plenty of great progress to report (we do! - keep reading) but because: we've been r
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Designing the New RuneQuest - Part 22
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 21st Mar 2018
A TALE OF TWO THREE LOGOSBy Jason Durall, RuneQuest line editorOne of the more significant visual
design elements to make for a new game has its choice of a logo. In some cases,
such as for licensed games, these decisions are out of the hands of the
designers and artists making the game. For exam
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