Are you an OWTRQCOGWB?

[Halfbat]

I like them all, but MRQ is definately a contender with RQ2 for the top, in my opinion.

Ditto. RQ2 was excellent (actually RQ1 was pretty good, too)

 

[soltakss]

You missed off "What's an Old Ways Traditionalist RuneQuest Crusty Old Grognard Whiny Bitch?".

My first ever RQ adversary was Biglaugh Bigclub who killed me second melee round.

That's a very very harsh DM you had there.

Harsh? To have a giant kill you in 2 rounds? Not in RQ2. Giant crushes and hits head, chest or abdomen, you parry, you get squished to -6 and die moaning. Easy peasy.

Not dying when fighting a giant, now that's the tricky bit.

 

[homerjsinnott]

You missed off "What's an Old Ways Traditionalist RuneQuest Crusty Old Grognard Whiny Bitch?".

My first ever RQ adversary was Biglaugh Bigclub who killed me second melee round.

That's a very very harsh DM you had there.

Harsh? To have a giant kill you in 2 rounds? Not in RQ2. Giant crushes and hits head, chest or abdomen, you parry, you get squished to -6 and die moaning. Easy peasy.

Not dying when fighting a giant, now that's the tricky bit.

I meant to pit you against a giant in you first session.

What's an Old Ways Traditionalist RuneQuest Crusty Old Grognard Whiny Bitch
Me. Playing since '81/2 (it all gets a bit blurry).

 

[Quire]

1981/82 seems to be some kind of breakthrough year for RQ. Was that when the GW boxed edition came out?

I know exactly what got me into role-playing: The Warlock of Firetop Mountain. A friend and I both obsessively reverse-engineered the book, mapping section numbers to locations, both trying to outdo each other. Not long after Warlock, Livingstone had a book out called...Dicing with Dragons, I think it was, which was all about the 'huge' RPG scene as it existed at the time. I read it and re-read it and re-read it over and over, while I saved up enough money for the purplish box with the lady fighting the lizard on it.

The first time we ever played it, we were confused as hell. "Aren't we supposed to have little figurines?" "Miniatures, dude, miniatures. And...I'm not sure..."

- Q

PS We may not actually have referred to each other as 'dude' back then.

 

[Exubae]

I meant to pit you against a giant in you first session.

Do a Brave, Brave Sir Robin... Run awaaaayyyyy...
Or wait till he is a sleep...
or...

With death staring you character in the face it forces you to use you brain rather than just your sword... One of the cool things that seperated it from its rivals back in the heady days of RG2.

To miss-quote Mongoosefordy - Severspirit is like instant Death if you fail a roll.
Just like being hit by a giant club...
...So You never take on a Humakt on your own, send swarms of Trollkin at him, or wait till he is a sleep... there are many ways to skin a shadowcat.

Been playing RQ since I discovered the Rules in Beaties in Suttoncoldfield in the 80's- I remember being smitten by the wench in the blue spikey bra on the cover.

 

[weasel_fierce]

I also really like the sparse and kind of simple drawings in the RQ2 book. I started on RQ 3 and have been getting into 2nd edition retroactively, but the artwork just has a simple, plain charm to it