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The full-color hardback RuneQuest: Roleplaying in Glorantha rules will be out later this year, but in the mean time, the 48 page RuneQuest Quickstart Rules features everything you need to start playing, and includes a new adventure "The Broken Tower" and five pre-gen characters.Here, Chaosium P … read more

By Jeff RichardIn my last design note I mentioned that while the new RQ Design team widely agreed RuneQuest 2nd Ed wasn't broken, it had some weak points: these were - how Rune Magic was obtained, social interactions, and the disconnect between Initiate and Rune Master.For the new RQG … read more

By Jeff RichardThe recent Icv2.com article Chaosium returns to its roots with RuneQuest: Roleplaying in Glorantha noted:"the company is pulling in a lot of star power for the new edition, touting material written by industry veterans Steve Perrin (RuneQuest), Ken Rolston (The Elder Scrolls … read more

Runes, Passions, and Rune Spells, oh my!By Jeff RichardSome of the most significant changes to the new RuneQuest are Runes and Passions, and the use of Rune Points to cast Rune Spells. These new features are easy for players and GMs to get the hang of, but they add tremendously to player opportuniti … read more

The new edition of the iconic roleplaying game RuneQuest will be formally known as RuneQuest: Roleplaying in Glorantha, or 'RQG' for short, Chaosium announced today.First published by Chaosium in 1978, over the ensuing decades the RuneQuest game has gone through a number of editions with different p … read more