I'm writing up an intro to Legend and working on a guide to getting started plus a starter scenario for people new to Legend/BRP/D100.
This is my background piece. Comments please.
Legend was originally developed to support a role-playing 'world' that has been around for more than 30 years. Glorantha was the place that Greg Stafford used as a setting for his novels and has, over the years, been used in board games and computer games as well as a rich and varied role-playing 'world'. Runequest was the first rule system used for role playing in the world of Glorantha in 1978 and various different versions of the rule system have come and gone over the years. The underlying mechanism of using a percentile-based skill system has stayed throughout that time.
Mongoose Publishing acquired the rights to produce a new version of the old classic game and printed Runequest I in 2006 (MRQI). A revised version of the rules was published in 2010 as Runequest II (MRQII, the Roman numerals distinguish these versions from ones produced by Chaosium in the past). Mongoose allowed the licence to use Gloranthan campaign material to lapse, but kept the rules in print under a new name, Legend.
The Legend game system is made up of the core rulebook, Monsters of Legend, a book covering creatures and fantastical monsters, Arms of Legend, a companion book with various rule additions, and finally Arcania of Legend with rules for a different magic system.
Legend is compatible with many other games in the Basic Role Playing family as skills and statistics of the various things in the game system port across easily. That means you can use a ghoul from Call of Cthulhu as easily as a ghoul from Monsters of Legend or one from Chaosium's core Basic Role Playing rulebook. It's only the campaign background that changes.
There are three additional volumes of core-type rules in Vikings of Legend, Pirates of Legend and Samurai of Legend. These develop the game system for alternate backgrounds and areas of play. Mongoose also produced a core book for Runequest II for Fritz Leiber's world of Lankhmar and that works with Legend. There is a thriving forum for the Legend game system run by Mongoose Publishing. One thing that is very positive for Legend is that it was released under an Open Game License (OGL) which means that material stated as open content can be used in other publications. Effectively the core rules, creatures from Monsters of Legend and material in Arms of Legend can be used and freely published in your own material under the terms of the license.
This is my background piece. Comments please.
Legend was originally developed to support a role-playing 'world' that has been around for more than 30 years. Glorantha was the place that Greg Stafford used as a setting for his novels and has, over the years, been used in board games and computer games as well as a rich and varied role-playing 'world'. Runequest was the first rule system used for role playing in the world of Glorantha in 1978 and various different versions of the rule system have come and gone over the years. The underlying mechanism of using a percentile-based skill system has stayed throughout that time.
Mongoose Publishing acquired the rights to produce a new version of the old classic game and printed Runequest I in 2006 (MRQI). A revised version of the rules was published in 2010 as Runequest II (MRQII, the Roman numerals distinguish these versions from ones produced by Chaosium in the past). Mongoose allowed the licence to use Gloranthan campaign material to lapse, but kept the rules in print under a new name, Legend.
The Legend game system is made up of the core rulebook, Monsters of Legend, a book covering creatures and fantastical monsters, Arms of Legend, a companion book with various rule additions, and finally Arcania of Legend with rules for a different magic system.
Legend is compatible with many other games in the Basic Role Playing family as skills and statistics of the various things in the game system port across easily. That means you can use a ghoul from Call of Cthulhu as easily as a ghoul from Monsters of Legend or one from Chaosium's core Basic Role Playing rulebook. It's only the campaign background that changes.
There are three additional volumes of core-type rules in Vikings of Legend, Pirates of Legend and Samurai of Legend. These develop the game system for alternate backgrounds and areas of play. Mongoose also produced a core book for Runequest II for Fritz Leiber's world of Lankhmar and that works with Legend. There is a thriving forum for the Legend game system run by Mongoose Publishing. One thing that is very positive for Legend is that it was released under an Open Game License (OGL) which means that material stated as open content can be used in other publications. Effectively the core rules, creatures from Monsters of Legend and material in Arms of Legend can be used and freely published in your own material under the terms of the license.