RuneQuest II Compendium?

[zomben]

Anyone know whatever happened to this book?

http://www.mongoosepublishing.com/home/detail.php?qsID=1822&PHPSESSID=5f3142fc224620a97f7e5

It doesn't seem to be on the release schedule, or current releases.

Did it get cancelled, or delayed?

 

[BenQ]

I think its got renamed to Runequest Adventures and is due out at some point soon:

http://www.mongoosepublishing.com/home/detail.php?qsID=1875&qsSeries=RuneQuest II

 

[zomben]

I got the impression they were two different things. Both drawn from S&P, but one rules addendum and articles, and the other straight adventures.

 

[BenQ]

Looking at the write ups again you may well be right!

 

[cthulhudarren]

I'm hoping the adventures book is good. I have quite a few adventures from ye olden days of RQ and they are mostly very unexceptional.

 

[zomben]

I'm hoping the adventures book is good. I have quite a few adventures from ye olden days of RQ and they are mostly very unexceptional.

I have to wonder which ones you were reading/playing. The early RQ adventures were the gold standard, as far as I'm concerned.

 

[cthulhudarren]

I'm hoping the adventures book is good. I have quite a few adventures from ye olden days of RQ and they are mostly very unexceptional.

I have to wonder which ones you were reading/playing. The early RQ adventures were the gold standard, as far as I'm concerned.

For me the best adventures were the early D&D ones.

Off the top of my head I'm thinking of:
Snakepipe hollow
trollpak
Questworld boxed set.

Each had a little bit of good stuff but mostly uninspiring stuff IMHO. I loved the map from Questworld though.

 

[PhilHibbs]

For me the best adventures were the early D&D ones.

Off the top of my head I'm thinking of:
Snakepipe hollow
trollpak
Questworld boxed set.

Each had a little bit of good stuff but mostly uninspiring stuff IMHO. I loved the map from Questworld though.

Trollpak was not an adventure, neither was Questworld, but I liked the Lord Skyppen's Mansion. As to Snakepipe Hollow, I thought it was very good. I'd already got over the shock of not having a 10'x10' grid in The Rainbow Mounds.

 

[cthulhudarren]

For me the best adventures were the early D&D ones.

Off the top of my head I'm thinking of:
Snakepipe hollow
trollpak
Questworld boxed set.

Each had a little bit of good stuff but mostly uninspiring stuff IMHO. I loved the map from Questworld though.

Trollpak was not an adventure, neither was Questworld, but I liked the Lord Skyppen's Mansion. As to Snakepipe Hollow, I thought it was very good. I'd already got over the shock of not having a 10'x10' grid in The Rainbow Mounds.

They had plenty of short adventures/seeds/ideas that didn't do much for me.

 

[Deleriad]

For me the best adventures were the early D&D ones.

Off the top of my head I'm thinking of:
Snakepipe hollow
trollpak
Questworld boxed set.

Each had a little bit of good stuff but mostly uninspiring stuff IMHO. I loved the map from Questworld though.

Trollpak was not an adventure, neither was Questworld, but I liked the Lord Skyppen's Mansion. As to Snakepipe Hollow, I thought it was very good. I'd already got over the shock of not having a 10'x10' grid in The Rainbow Mounds.

They had plenty of short adventures/seeds/ideas that didn't do much for me.

At the risk of being called a heretic, I'm of like mind. I found Snakepipe Hollow atmospheric but it was still at heart a gonzo cave crawl. Trollpack was brilliant for background but the scenarios tended to be a disappointment. Questworld in general was poor. I was a player in some sort of adapted version of Lord Skyppen's Mansion and still remember the endless, tedious wandering.

For me, lot of the early Chaosium stuff was brilliant for background, depth and atmosphere but sorely lacking in interesting scenarios. The centre point of Griffin Mountain was climb a mountain, fight griffins, get a magic sword. I actually find a lot of the RQ renaissance books for RQ3 (Sun County, Shaodws on the Borderlands etc) to have a lot more interesting scenarios and adventure seeds than the earlier ones. Naturally that is a generalisation: the sections around Gonn Orta for example while both Pavis and Borderlands had a lot of interesting stories in them.

 

[BenQ]

Looks like we now hove our answer: http://www.mongoosepublishing.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=45226

 

[zomben]

Cool, thanks!