Critical YAS! It’s coming up to the weekend, and this means here on Geek Native I spend some time summing up recent RPG news for you.
RuneQuest creator re-joins Chaosium
Many people will credit RuneQuest as the founding father of all d100 systems.
2019 ENnies results: Chaosium and Free League has a great night
A look at who did well and who might have gone home feeling disappointed after the 2019 ENnie awards.
Routinely Itemised: RPGs #4
A weekly roundup of RPG news in a handy set of bulletpoint lists.
RuneQuest 6 readies for pre-order
Lawrence Whitaker of The Design Mechanism has announced that the company is nearly ready to accept pre-orders for RuneQuest 6. The Design Mechanism has a strategic partnership with Moon Design and it’ll be Moon who are handling the print and electronic orders of RuneQuest 6 via their site. The game will also be available at […]
The Design Mechanism is born so RuneQuest can live
The quick background to this post is that British heavyweight Mongoose Publishing split with Issaries who own the RuneQuest franchise. Parts of various projects live on under new names but what of RuneQuest itself? Lawrence Whitaker and Pete Nash; with plenty of Eternal Champion and RuneQuest titles to their name, have created a new company; […]
Mongoose renames the renamed RuneQuest II to Legend
In May Mongoose and Issaries announced a split. This would mean Mongoose parting ways with both the Glorantha RPG and RuneQuest. There was a wriggle though – the core rules to RuneQuest II belonged to Mongoose. Mongoose announced that they’d be releasing a RPG using the RuneQuest II rule set and would be calling it […]
Mongoose split with Issaries; loose RuneQuest and Glorantha
UK based Mongoose Publishing, which powered into the limelight with an aggressive d20 based expansion and then pegged themselves in up high with some savvy business deals, have announced that they’re splitting from publishing partner Issaries. Isarries brought the RuneQuest and Glorantha RPG licenses with them to the Mongoose party. Those licenses leave along with […]
RuneQuest II’s Vikings RPG preview
Mongoose have published a complete setting and backgrond book for RuneQuest II called Vikings. The game looks at viking myths but also influenced by historical truths. Here’s a quote from the free preview. Hunting Another unusual aspect of Viking culture is their approach to hunting. Although respected as a valued skill, hunting is not entertainment […]
Free to Download: Signs & Portents 83
The Mongoose team have found time to upload and begin giving away the latest edition of the free to download magazine “Signs and Portents”. This is really a pre-GenCon edition in many ways but there’s enough here to ensure that most Mongoose gaming groups find something to their taste. Here’s the Mongoose supplied teaser. RuneQuest […]
