Runequest Previews

Back in the dark ages, when my early gaming group and I weren't playing D&D there's a decent chance that we would be playing Runequest. The only reason that I can come up with as to why is because we were also fans of Call of Cthulhu and this used this same system... and yet it was a fantasy game. So, we'd get a familiar system to play our standard hack n' slash in an unfamiliar way. It was pretty fun. Of course, Runequest fell on hard times over the last.. I don't know, I guess about ten years or so. Now, Mongoose Publishing is bringing it back.

Here's what Mongoose has to say about the main rulebook:

Designed to bring the original RuneQuest up to the 21st Century, this main rulebook contains all you need to explore the many fantasy worlds possible with RuneQuest.

Attention has been applied to keep this main rulebook down to a sensible (and easy on the wallet!) 100 pages, while layout has been refined to make the book easy to read and fast to pick up, allowing players to comprehend sections of the rules with a mere glance - meaning less time flicking through the book and more time playing!

As well as character creation, the RuneQuest main rulebook provides full rules for skills, cults/guilds, combat, adventuring, monsters and Rune Magic, the first magic system introduced for the latest edition of RuneQuest.

Eminently expandable to any fantasy setting, RuneQuest is supported in 2006 by Mongoose Publishing with the Glorantha and Lankhmar worlds, while other publishers are free to introduce their own settings, due to the Open Content licence available for the game.

RuneQuest has come of age. Go adventuring with one of the most powerful and flexible rules systems available.

You can take a look at some previews of the book which will be out some time next month.

Preview One (Table of contents, some background)
Preview Two (Random sample pages)
Preview Three (Magic)
Glorantha Map