My First Ten RPGs: 7
1 Jun, 2020
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Stealing from Aaron de Orive, my first ten tabletop RPGs in ten days, in the order in which I encountered them. Number seven is RuneQuest, 2nd edition. This is a skill-based fantasy RPG, focused on comparatively normal characters, the sort who rather than being damage sponges, would when hit with a battle axe probably die. Essentially all characters used magic, usually a comparatively weak but utilitarian form called battle magic.
One of the elements that made RQ stand out was its connection to the setting Glorantha, a bronze-age, magic-rich world. Glorantha began as Greg Stafford’s personal project long before roleplaying games came alone (which I think is also true of M. A. R. Barker’s Empire of the Petal Throne) and it provided an interesting backdrop for adventuring that wasn’t standard faux-Medieval Europe as imagined by Wisconsonites.