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  • Alan Olsen

    I met my wife at a Runequest game. (She was my best friend’s girlfriend at the time.)

    The gaming system for Runequest was pretty good. I also liked their Elric game that was based on the same system.

  • adamrice

    I liked Runequest’s mechanics so much better than AD&D’s, back in the day.

  • http://www.flickr.com/photos/stefan_e_jones/ Stefan Jones

    Glorantha was around long before Runequest.

    I want to see a Kickstarter to get White Bear, Red Moon and Nomad Gods boardgames reprinted. And finally get Masters of Luck and Death onto the shelves!

    • http://www.facebook.com/jeff.richard.31 Jeff Richard

       You may well get that wish.

      • http://www.flickr.com/photos/stefan_e_jones/ Stefan Jones

         Stretch goal: Recreate the original mimeograph rulebook!

        (I actually have three copies of White Bear, Red Moon. The  second edition I bought in 1977 or so, the fancy slick boxed redesign, and the first edition I bought from the same game-convention flea market table.)

        • edgore

          I had the first two, and a copy of Dragon Pass, which held all my Runequest Glorantha maps for the next 20 years. (BTW, belated Chaosium writer high-five, Stefan)

          • http://www.flickr.com/photos/stefan_e_jones/ Stefan Jones

            Oh, that’s right, the slick version was retitled Dragon Pass!

            I really treasure those old games. Stafford’s odd mythos and prose, and those lovely graphics.

            (Oh, and those funky Wyrm’s Footnotes zines!)

  • http://www.somelovemusic.com/ Tuff Luke

    Maybe we can also get Bunnies & Burrows up and running again.

    • http://www.flickr.com/photos/stefan_e_jones/ Stefan Jones

       There is a GURPS Bunnies & Borrows, as I recall.

      And it couldn’t hurt to check with FGU, which is still reprinting (or making available as PDF) a lot of their old stuff.

      • http://www.somelovemusic.com/ Tuff Luke

        Holy Smokes.  Yeah, I’m definitely going to be tracking that down now.  Thanks!

      • http://www.facebook.com/people/Steven-Lord/100001398346071 Steven Lord

        FYI an electronic version of GURPS Classics: Bunnies & Burrows for GURPS 3E is on e23.

        http://e23.sjgames.com/item.html?id=SJG30-6060

  • http://www.openbuddha.com/ Al Billings

    All these old school game systems are tired. The state of the art really has improved since we all carried encyclopedia sized tomes in the 80s when we wanted to game. I encourage people to check out things like D. Vincent Baker’s “Apocalypse World,” Burning Wheel, anything using the One Roll Engine or the like. Games that make story and smoothness of place more important than giant tables of rules and spells. (I also encourage people to check out hacks of AW like “Monsterhearts.”)

    • http://twitter.com/adamstjohn Adam StJohn Lawrence

      The guys carrying encyclopedia-sized tomes were AD&D players. My Runequest rulebook was one slim volume, and rarely needed.

      • edgore

        Yep, one of the great things about Runequest (or any Chaosium game) was that pretty much everything you needed to play the game was on your character sheet. Runequest was probably the best story-telling RPG there was in the 80s.

    • http://www.facebook.com/JaneWilliams20 Jane Williams

      Where does this new book say anything about the rule system? It doesn’t. So on what basis are you saying the “game system” is tired?

  • Daemonworks

    Cory… Glorantha wasn’t an RPG. It was the name of a fantasy world that several games were set in. (The most recently published being 2009′s HeroQuest 2nd ed)

    • edgore

      Liking the pedant reluctantly (but, really – Glorantha is the most well thought out setting, abstracted from the rule-set, probably ever. Joseph Campbell *wishes* he wrote this stuff.)

      • wizardru

        Well thought out, perhaps, but it featured talking ducks.  I remember that being a serious source of derision back in the early 80s, at least among the gamers I knew.

        • edgore

          Yes, because having talking duck like humanoids in a fantasy game is stupid. Their loss.

  • Harbo

    Is not “Lanhkmar” ~1937 (Lieber and Fischer), the precursor of RPGs?

  • Dewgeist

    Elves will always be vegetable matter to me…

  • http://twitter.com/dorkomatic Dorkomatic

    I loved those stories of Griselda and her friends set in Glorantha by Oliver Dickinson.  
    Also I came across my old copy of Bunnies & Burrows recently.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1189572964 Barbara Dace

    I’d like to see a revival of “Empire of the Petal Throne”…now, there was a fascinating RPG world!  A wildly different cultural setting than the usual Euro-centric fantasy…the game designer was an Urdu linguist and South Asian scholar, and a healthy dose of lost-world SF also informed the design.  

    • absimiliard

      I loved Barker’s work!  I quite enjoyed both books as well.  (though I think “Man of Gold” is the better of the two to my eyes)

    • edgore

      Empire of the Petal Throne with a good game system would be a wonderful thing. Actually, the Runequest ruleset adapts pretty well to it.