RuneQuest News

[MongooseMatt]

Hi guys,

Just a quick update with what is going on with RuneQuest and what you can look forward to.

RuneQuest was officially our best selling product last year - no great surprise, but is good to see. Support from the fans has been great, and we'll be working hard to fulfil expectations in 2007.

The Player's Guide to Glorantha is all set and ready to go. This will be the first book produced by our new printing facility - the artwork should be crystal clear with the equipment we are using. Expect to see if around the middle of February, or thereabouts.

Lankhmar has got off to a flying start. We are planning the Newhon supplement and a scenario to come very quickly. This, however, is all we planned to do - if you chaps want to see more material, let us know!

Support for RuneQuest in Signs & Portents (our free to download magazine - if you are not getting it every month, you are missing out!) will continue. While we have several articles stacked up for future issues, we love to see what fans bring to the game themselves - so drop us a line with your ideas and we'll see if there is a decent article in there. Let everyone see what you include in your own games!

Incidentally, we _will_ accept Gloranthan-based articles for S&P. And Lankhmar as well, for that matter. . .

The SpaceQuest project has officially begun, giving us a science fiction (and modern) set of rules using the RuneQuest system. This will be followed quickly by a complete setting - no decisions yet on what this will be, but Judge Dredd, Starship Troopers, Strontium Dogs and Nemesis the Warlock are all in the running. Give us time though, and we may do all four. . .

Finally, the Worst Kept Secret in RuneQuest will be officially revealed very soon. Stay tuned. New worlds to explore are coming. . .

 

[The King]

Finally, the Worst Kept Secret in RuneQuest will be officially revealed very soon. Stay tuned. New worlds to explore are coming. . .

Thanks for the news.
Aren't you talking of Elric/Hawkmoon/the eternal champion there?

 

[MongooseMatt]

Aren't you talking of Elric/Hawkmoon/the eternal champion there?

Our policy is to neither confirm nor deny. Don't know what you are talking about, mate.

 

[soltakss]

Apparently, some of it has been finished already.

But, sssh! Don't tell anyone because it's a secret!

 

[MongooseMatt]

But, sssh! Don't tell anyone because it's a secret!

I didn't say it was a well kept secret. . .

 

[Yoda300]

The SpaceQuest project has officially begun, giving us a science fiction (and modern) set of rules using the RuneQuest system. This will be followed quickly by a complete setting - no decisions yet on what this will be, but Judge Dredd, Starship Troopers, Strontium Dogs and Nemesis the Warlock are all in the running. Give us time though, and we may do all four. . .

Other Suns from FGU was a game with rules close to RQII and could be exploited as a generic space opera setting.

 

[atgxtg]

I hope I can act surprised.

:shock:

Hmm, not bad.

 

[The King]

But, sssh! Don't tell anyone because it's a secret!

I didn't say it was a well kept secret. . .

worse kept that the secret of the Godlearners it seems :roll:

 

[weasel_fierce]

Bring on the Runequest goodness!

Eternal champion is going up against stiff competition, but a Hawkmoon game would be fantastic

 

[Cut]

The Player's Guide to Glorantha is all set and ready to go. This will be the first book produced by our new printing facility - the artwork should be crystal clear with the equipment we are using. Expect to see if around the middle of February, or thereabouts.

Is this the one printing facility you mentioned a while back, that the company owns? That would be indeed a great thing!

 

[Rurik]

The Player's Guide to Glorantha is all set and ready to go. This will be the first book produced by our new printing facility - the artwork should be crystal clear with the equipment we are using. Expect to see if around the middle of February, or thereabouts.

Is it B&W as the preview or color?

Can the new in house facilities print color books?

 

[Adept]

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The Player's Guide to Glorantha is all set and ready to go. This will be the first book produced by our new printing facility - the artwork should be crystal clear with the equipment we are using. Expect to see if around the middle of February, or thereabouts.
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Huzzah! You got your own printing press then. Does this mean that you will have more flexibility with the book sizes? Can we expect thicker books where thickness is due?

 

[MongooseMatt]

Is it B&W as the preview or color?

Can the new in house facilities print color books?

I am at home at the moment and cannot check, but I believe it is b/w.

And yes, the new facility can handle colour, hardbacks. . . practically anything!

 

[MongooseMatt]

Huzzah! You got your own printing press then. Does this mean that you will have more flexibility with the book sizes? Can we expect thicker books where thickness is due?

Yes, but they will be a short while in coming - remember, we work on books all the time, and so there are a number in the system configured for the old way of printing.

However, the flexibility we have will be unprecedented. Look out for some low run editions of books that will be rather spiffy!

 

[Chardros The Reaper]

Excellent news! I'm glad to hear SpaceQuest has begun, though I wish it were out already! Personally, I'm not too interested in any of the mentioned properties as settings. I'd like to see something new and original. Too bad, however, that Wizards has the rights to Star Wars locked down as the RQ system is a much better fit than d20. Guess I'll be doing some conversion...

As far as the "Worst Kept Secret" goes I can't wait to hear something official and see some previews. These are the books I'm most anxious about. If Mongoose lavishes the same sort of deserved attention the Conan system has had, these settings should be quite successful.

 

[The King]

The funniest is that "The Soothsayer's Lament" is already in the schedule table. On Amazon, we learn that this is an Hakwmoon scenario but Hawkmoon isn't yet scheduled.

How do you want to keep such things secret?

 

[Mage]

&Matt.

With Runequest, there was the companion, the core rules, and a monster manual. These could be used for generic worlds of aplayer's own devising, ala D&D, but could also be used for Glorantha and Lankhmar.

Will this be so with Space Quest? I mean, there will be rules for a generic space 'monster manual' and two other core books, or will it be say license as oppossed to setting? Finding this difficult to phrase, but basically:
Will the be a generic sci-fi system which is expanded with STarship Troopers and Judge Dredd suppliments, or will there be a seperate line for each, like your d20 B5 and Conan?
Just want to know if I could do my own generic game.
That said though,a monster manual with rules for ARachnids and nasties from Judge Dredd would rock (though probably enrage license holders).

 

[Cut]

I'd say Space Quest will be a mix of sourcebook and rulebook so that you'd require the RQ core rules, like the D&D Player's Guide was needed to play first edition Babylon 5 RPG by Mongoose.

So I'd guess (and guessing it only is) that you should own a copy of RuneQuest the core rules (for game mechanics and basic character creation) and the Space Quest book that would give you new mechanics and stuff (mostly new skills, professions and equipment) and you should be good to go.

@Matt: Could you tell us who's writing that very promising sounding book, please?

 

[MongooseMatt]

Hi guys,

At the moment, SpaceQuest will consist of one generic rulebook and the settings. The settings may or may not have the full rules in them - depends on the setting itself.

There may be other generic books in the range, such as advanced starship design, or whatever, but they haven't been planned yet.

At the moment, I am toying with some rules, though I don't know if I will be the one polishing them off or not.

 

[Chobbly]

Hi guys,

At the moment, SpaceQuest will consist of one generic rulebook and the settings. The settings may or may not have the full rules in them - depends on the setting itself.

There may be other generic books in the range, such as advanced starship design, or whatever, but they haven't been planned yet.

Sounds good. Does Mongoose intend to release SpaceQuest as an SRD, similar to Runequest? I've got my own vehicle rules at the moment for something I'm working on, and would be interested to know...


Chobbly