Because Nobody Demanded It!

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Poll #30545 RQ

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If you were going to introduce new players to RuneQuest, which edition would you use?

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RuneQuest, 1st Edition (Chaosium)
1 (2.1%)

RuneQuest, 2nd Edition (Chaosium)
3 (6.2%)

RuneQuest, 3rd Edition (Avalon Hill)
3 (6.2%)

RuneQuest III (Games Workshop)
1 (2.1%)

RuneQuest 90s (Hobby Japan)
0 (0.0%)

RuneQuest, 4th Edition (Unpublished)
2 (4.2%)

RuneQuest Slayers (Unpublished)
0 (0.0%)

Mongoose RuneQuest I (Mongoose)
0 (0.0%)

Mongoose RuneQuest II (Mongoose)
2 (4.2%)

RuneQuest, 6th Edition (The Design Mechanism)
1 (2.1%)

RuneQuest: Roleplaying in Glorantha (Chaosium)
1 (2.1%)

You Missed an Edition (see comments)
1 (2.1%)

I Incorrectly Believe HeroQuest can be considered a version of RuneQuest
7 (14.6%)

Cats are not in fact a form of RuneQuest
43 (89.6%)

Comments

[graydon]

I think the point is to introduce them to something where there are high-value (ratio of benefit to cost, value) sourcebooks easily available. The mechanics are the mechanics.

[badger]

2nd edition, because that's the one I have and played.

[original_aj]

RQIII, because that's the one I own and I'm not buying another one. Not that I am likely to run any form of RQ again, since there are any number of systems I would prefer to use.

[ross_smith]

Mythras.

[riderius]

3rd edition + some house rules, because that is the one I have supporting materials for and am familiar with and played the most. Others might be better, but that was not the question asked 8-)

[roseembolism]

2nd edition, because that's the one I have on my shelf, along with Gods of Prax. My partner has Mongquest, but honestly, I find the character creation system overly complex (start with your grandparents! See what context-less wars they participated in!) And dividing the years into seasons, of which only one can be actually used for adventuring, strokes me as too rigid.

Honestly though, these days of probably use Mythras if I wanted a complex traditional system, or Fate if I wanted to go more narrative.

[leecetheartist]

The new one is very beautiful but it's also very complicated.

[dagibbs]

RQ2, because it's the one I have. (I used to have an edition of RQ1, but I don't know what happened to it.)