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Steve Perrin: Creating RuneQuest – Part Two: Any character can do anything
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 15th Aug 2021
For our RuneQuest Classic Kickstarter in 2016 Steve Perrin generously provided a personal account of his role in the genesis of the RuneQuest roleplaying game. Although at the time of the Kickstarter we publicly featured an excerpt of Steve's recollections, the full account was only ever published a
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Steve Perrin: Creating RuneQuest – Part One: "The Chaosium’s role playing game”
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 15th Aug 2021
For our RuneQuest Classic Kickstarter in 2016 Steve Perrin generously provided a personal account of his role in the genesis of the RuneQuest roleplaying game. Although at the time of the Kickstarter we publicly featured an excerpt of Steve's recollections, the full account was only ever p
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Steve Perrin's final design work for RuneQuest was something of a love letter to his wife Luise
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 15th Aug 2021
We were delighted when Steve Perrin joined the design team for the new edition of RuneQuest in 2016. At the time RQG design lead Jeff Richard said, “We want to usher in the newest exploration of Glorantha with a tribute to the masterpiece opus of work that has come before. Part of Ste
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Vale and farewell, Steve Perrin (1946 - 2021)
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 13th Aug 2021
Vale and farewell, Steve Perrin!By Rick Meints, Chaosium PresidentWhen the world of roleplaying games was still waiting to be born, you and your closest friends conjured up the Society for Creation Anachronism (SCA) from the realms of your collective imagination. Bump, bump, bump down the stair
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Out of the Suitcase #2: Ducks, Ducks, and more Ducks
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 22nd Dec 2020
Chaosium President Rick Meints shares stories from a life-time as a collector of all things Chaosium Over on the RuneQuest Facebook group there's been a wonderful, fragmented discussion of the origins of Ducks in Glorantha recently. I thought I'd spend a little free time writing down what
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Steve Perrin returns to Chaosium as a creative consultant
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 6th Aug 2019
Steve Perrin, creator and lead author of the original revolutionary ‘78 and ‘79 editions of RuneQuest has formally returned to the company as a creative consultant. RuneQuest was a landmark in RPG design and forms the basis of all BRP/d100 rules systems. A founding member of the Socie
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Creating RuneQuest, Through Glorantha with Sword and Crystal - an excerpt
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 13th Dec 2015
The RuneQuest Playtest Manuscript book is a 250+ page hardcover book currently on offer in the RuneQuest Classic Kickstarter. It was created from high resolution scans of the original playtest manuscript, which has been lovingly kept in a binder for the last 40 years. The book also features new
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