Quote from: ggroy;434658I picked up the 2009 "Guilds, Factions & Cults" MRQ1 book yesterday evening.  (The gaming store placed all the MRQ1 books in the bargain bin).

From a first read, not a lot of overlap with the MRQ2 Empires book.

Will have to read it more closely.

There's a little overlap but otherwise they're standalone products and quite compatible. They're intended to do very different things: Empires - national and international metagaming; GF&Cs - community/societal metagaming.

Quote from: Loz;434610What particularly encourages me is the setting scope people now have for MRQII. To date you have:

Glorantha Second Age
Elric
Clockwork and Chivalry
Vikings
Wraith Recon

and very soon there will be:

Age of Treason
Hawkmoon

You forgot Deus Vult, which is the setting I'm leaning towards at the moment.  It is great to see so many different settings using the rules.  Lots of options, and hopefully the RQ2 "family" will continue to grow.

John

If I had time I'd be run an EPIC campaign set in 2nd Age Glorantha using the MRQ2 rules as written with everything turned up to 11!  Probably using Dara Happa Stirs converted over from MRQ1, although Pavis Rises intrigues me greatly.

I'm big enough a man to house rule any holes, mistooks, or bits I find just plain wrong to may tastes. As for Gloranthan One Wayism pah! I bought the book ITS MY GLORANTHA NOW

I've not had oportunity to pick up Deus Vult or Vikings yet, but I heartily recommend Clockwork and Chivalry - it has a lovely gritty on the road feel I've not seen since WFRP 1st Ed and tis a million miles away from Glorantha (the only ducks are on the village pond )

Welcome to the RPG Site by the way, guys.

Quote from: johnmarron;434924You forgot Deus Vult, which is the setting I'm leaning towards at the moment.  It is great to see so many different settings using the rules.  Lots of options, and hopefully the RQ2 "family" will continue to grow.

John

You're right John! I'm a berk.

Although the numbers are small it's interesting to see them. I'm surprised that there are more people playing MRQII than playing older editions. Though it might well be that a fair few people have the book but haven't got around to playing it.

Quote from: deleriad;435028Although the numbers are small it's interesting to see them. I'm surprised that there are more people playing MRQII than playing older editions. Though it might well be that a fair few people have the book but haven't got around to playing it.

Back in the day, the groups I gamed with never really got into the original Runequest, Call of Cthulhu, Stormbringer, etc ..  At most, we only ever got around to playing Chaosium games as evening one-shots or a marathon over a long weekend.

Fast forward to the present, I only ever got around to playing an evening one-shot game using MRQ2.

When I first picked up the MRQ2 core book, I tried putting together a game with some local friends who were veterans of Chaosium games from the 1980's.  (I wasn't playing anything else at the time in early-2010, after my 4E game died in January 2010).  This MRQ2 game ended up falling through when two of the players changed their minds and left.  We only got around to making characters and playing one game.

Quote from: deleriad;435028Although the numbers are small it's interesting to see them. I'm surprised that there are more people playing MRQII than playing older editions. Though it might well be that a fair few people have the book but haven't got around to playing it.

MRQII is my first RQ. I'm not new to BRP though because I of course played CoC for years off and on, and my brother and I played 1e and 2e Stormbringer, which I still have. I'm bummed I never picked up RQ, but glad I have now, it's turning out to be everything i ever wanted in a FRPG. With GD3 as my go-to for more modern genre's and SC3 and both classic and Mong Trav for sci-fi my system coverage is pretty much complete. Happy Siggy

Quote from: Sigmund;435037MRQII is my first RQ.

My story is similar to Sigmund's. I was familiar with BRP by way of CoC (which I've played, and play, rather a lot) and Stormbringer (4e? 5e? Played a couple of games in high school). RQ was never big around here, and I was only vaguely aware of its existence via Dragon magazine (and later, Internet forums).

In the aftermath of the great d20 burnout, I thumbed through the MRQI books (the Hawkmoon ones I found particularly interesting) and my interest was piqued. And when MRQII come out with great reviews, I finally decided I'd pick it up.

Right now I'm focusing on one game at a time, and it's The Day After Ragnarok's turn to get a proper campaign. But I really, really like what I see, and I can't wait for a chance to run (or play) a MRQII game. Maybe I'll try my hand at Second Age Glorantha, or pick up a few old PDFs and try a Third Age Dragon Pass game. I've also been toying with the idea of a homebrew, vaguely inspired by Scarred Lands (the old D&D 3.0e White Wolf setting, which is big on gods and myth, and which strikes me as perfect for RQ); or a "Mythic Medieval Europe" setting, less Deus Vult (I dislike the "agents of X" setup for fantasy gaming) and more Dragon Warriors meets Ars Magica meets Bernard Cornwall's Warlord Chronicles and Saxon Stories.

Damn, so many possibilities. It's been a long time since I was this excited with a toolkit fantasy RPG. Everyone who was involved with MRQII's development and writing is to be congratulated on the breadth and quality of the supplements I've seen so far (editing still needs work, though... sorry guys ). I can't wait to see what MRQII Hawkmoon will look like.

Doesn't the fourth option of the poll basically encompass every other RPG there is? I mean, if I like RIFTS, should I choose that option? I didn't realize that it was, in a way, a version of Runequest.

RPGPundit

I'm pretty sure option 4 is about non-Mongoose RuneQuest.  Frex, I run RQ 3 (AH edition) in a pseudo-Korean setting called Gompan.  Thus, non-MRQII, non-Glorantha.

Quote from: Benoist;434027By the way, just to support that part of your theory, if I was to run Glorantha right now, I'd use RuneQuest 3 for sure, because most of the stuff I want to use is for earlier editions of RQ, including stuff like Pavis & Big Rubble, Griffin Mountain, Genertela, Gods of Glorantha etc etc.

There's no point for me to reinvent the wheel and use another game with it.

Ditto!

Quote from: RPGPundit;435298Doesn't the fourth option of the poll basically encompass every other RPG there is? I mean, if I like RIFTS, should I choose that option? I didn't realize that it was, in a way, a version of Runequest.

RPGPundit

Nah, because the premise is that it's a poll for runequesters (title of thread). So it's basically about which version of RuneQuest, as a RQer, you use at your game table, not what system in general as a RPGer. The assumption is that if you don't play any version of RQ, then you do not vote in the poll. That's how I understand it anyway.

Quote from: RPGPundit;435298Doesn't the fourth option of the poll basically encompass every other RPG there is?

Only if (a) you fail to read (because you're not paying attention) or understand (by dint of massive, brain-hemorrhaging stupidity) the question, or (b) you, for some mind-boggling reason, feel Rifts qualifies as "a version of Runequest".

You mean its not?!?