Great video! Mythras is probably my favourite traditional roleplaying game, and it's great seeing it get some love.

Awesome! RQ is my "second love" in RPGs. Mythras is perhaps my favorite iteration of the d100 system. Excellent video coverage of an outstanding product family.

Thank you for the review. Great history and recap. For the Lulu copy, I have several, and no problems with the spine (if anything they're better built than the Drivethru prints. You should contact Lulu for a replacement; I'm sure they'll oblige.

An eye opener after working with only d&d for years. Great overview! Agreed on the value of a robust generic fantasy rule set.

It is rare I see an account of RuneQuest and Mythras from someone who actually knows the history. Great review. That is a real shame about your copy from Lulu - I would have thought Lulu would replace such a bad print?

Runequest is easily my favourite Fantasy RPG, and Glorantha is my joint favourite setting alongside Middle Earth.

It's funny, I had never even heard of Runequest until I started getting promos from Chaosium (after they finally got the Call of Cthulhu kickstarter books out the door). D&D, Cthulhu, even Rifts, etc., but not Runequest. I wonder if it was regional in the US or something. Then again, not a lot of games/comic shops in my area when I was growing up. Bless the internet and making the world a bit smaller for this kind of thing.

Love! Love! Love! RuneQuest second edition!!! The mechanics are a dream.

Wow, I love your video. Lo' those many years ago, while all my friends were playing that new game D & D, I discovered RuneQuest.... and have never looked back.. Got all the expansions and adventures and what minis I could find. Then followed it through the Avalon Hill years. Now, none of my friends are playing RPG's. They all moved away or died. Oh, and yes, I love Traveller. Bob Swanson

Awesome breakdown video! Always love ttrpg content from this channel.

Nice video and takes me back to my start in the RPG hobby, many years ago LOL. I still have my original 2nd Ed book, though my Games Workshop editions of the game have taken a huge beating from all the game sessions we ran back in the day. May have to dig them out again and figure out how to run solo. Thanks again for the video!

You may also want to check out 'Monster Island', which was made for RQ6. The title describes it well, and somewhat reminded me of the old Isle Of Dread for D&D, but in a setting neutral RQ style. There's a lot of content in it.

Call me crazy, but I do think baking the world in the system is a positive change in the modern gaming landscape. We're finally at a point where generic systems like BRP, GURPS and Mythras are in abundance, which means that systems that gear towards specific stories can easily find their own niche. Glorantha itself and the documentation around it is valuable to read for learning more about worldbuilding, particularly religion and the day-to-day lives of people in a fantasy world. Kind of like how Blades in the Dark has contributed to re-imagining how we use inventory, planning and time management (as you'd expect from a game about heists) The new RuneQuest is valuable even if you're not planning to run any game in Glorantha. I definitely want to check out Mythras one day, but I heard it's significantly more dungeon-crawly than RuneQuest. I hope it has its own development on the non-combat side of things that goes above a bunch of extra skills.

Very interesting. Have only played D&D. That was about 40 years ago. Still got the original n supplemental pamphlets.

Like you, I started RuneQuest with 3rd edition and I never could get into Glorantha. I liked the sorcery rules, though I think Mythras eventually got it right. In fact, I think Mythras got everything right. It is by far my favorite system.

Really great historical overview!

Very enjoyable. RQ was the first TTRPG that I had ever gotten involved with, at the tender age of mid-20s :) and that was the boxed 2nd edition, which is still prominently in my games library, along with the expansion box sets. When I finally encountered AD&D2 a few years later, I was appalled over how primitive and limited the rules were; no hit locations?, levels?, classes?, no skills?, and of course, at upper levels, ridiculously "over the top". The Mythras RQ fork, I was vaguely aware of, but the name, Mythras, didn't mean anything until last year when a read a Bernard Cornwall novel, of the Arthurian legend, where Mythras was a religion, of sorts, based on an acquisition from the Roman occupation of England, as I understood it. Aha! Click! The version numbers were interesting. I have RQ2, RQ3 (boxed), and of course RQ4 RuneQuest in Glorantha. It is interesting that Chaosium refers to RiG as №4, and Design Mechanism's is №6 although it is dated 4+ years prior.

I still use my 3rd Edition RuneQuest all the time. I truly love this game and have for years.

I dappled in RPGs before I ended up prioritizing monster games. ... I still have a few. Call of Cthulhu, Ars Magica... and the boxed AH edition of RuneQuest. Nowadays, my most likely Glorantha experience would be the wargame "Dragon Pass".

Ah! Nostalgia.

Nice review, we used to play second edition in a low magic pseudo medieval setting.

Please post more about Mythras

Thanks for the review. So is Mythras the best iteration of the d100 system and does it include stuff like hit locations in combat like BRP?

I've found one mistake: Pendragon does not use the BRP system but an unrealted one using a d20.

Agree with you about preferring the non-Glorantha toolbox editions. While I own the latest RQ Glorantha slipcase, I still highly treasure my bigass copy of 6th Edition. I was told that some of the magic systems were removed from the latter Mythras book, so haven't bothered to pick it up since 6e is just fine and apparently has more content options included. Not to say Mythras is bad, of course; it's still the same game.

You are missing out on the Games Workshop version of Runequest 3rd Edition from about 1987. It may have only been released in the UK perhaps? What is significant about it was that it too had very slim rule books, which may put some context on Mongoose, a British game company, doing the same with their first Runequest release.

Nice video! Iv just discovered Mythras and Im thinking of buying! Here in Sweden we have alot of d100 games, the oldest one known as Dragons and Demons, or DoD for short. They have alot in common with Runequest and the Basic RPG system! Im probably going to buy the Mythras game!

Was is wrong that, while watching my original Runequest 2nd edition box set, including "Foes" and "Apple Lane". I feel dirty,m but I won't tell.

Maybe you can Talk about the new BRP from Chaosium

Very nice review. Never played RuneQuest while always being fascinated by it for some reason. Looks like I'll have to find a copy of the 2nd edition/Classic, as that seems to have been the high water mark of the original creative impulse. Thanks!

nice overview, but you mentioned Hero Quest, where does that fit into all this?

I truly wish that someone would put up a really good scan of the 3rd edition Runequest product on DrivethruRpg or something. 3rd edition is my favorite edition though I did start with 1st/2nd Edition back in 78-79'. I've got the box set but I prefer to read on PDF these days. There is a scanned version out there, but it's slightly blurry unfortunately which bothers my eyes quickly. Mythras is awesome but has the absolute worse font and type size to read. I find myself growing quickly eye fatigued, which causes me to have a hard time focusing on the page. Basically where as I can read a WotC, Pinnacle etc book with no issues, paragraphs in is about the most I can do at one time of a The Design Mechanism book. :/ Though I will point out that Lyonesse is much better and a real gem of a book, worth owning. I hold out hope that Lawrence and Pete will someday do a revamp of the book and if they need to, break it up into two books so they can adjust font and type, maybe evening adjust ink color and contrast. Until then it's basically 3rd edition RQ, Harn, GURPS 3rd Ed. or Savage Worlds for me.

I was the opposite to the majority of RQ players. The reason I stopped playing it was that I felt the rules were too strongly tied to Glorantha and it felt like an assumed use of Glorantha was tied into the rules, particularly the magic. Loving Mythras. Sadly I won't be going anywhere near the new Chaosium RQ, as the thing people are getting excited about is the thing that I wanted to avoid all the way back in the early/mid 80s. I would say that the PDF of RQ6 is better than the PDF of Mythras Core. The type face and font size of Mythras is teeny tiny, (one presumes to lower the page count, which it does considerably. They are exactly the same game but RQ6 has many more pages...) but I'm in my 50s now... and even with my specs on I struggle to read some of the Mythras pages on my tablet without an awful lot of zooming in.

Hi Ardi. I would be curious to know your views on the Harnmaster system compared to RuneQuest. I know you love both, but which is better?

"...suspicious of Mongoose..." Suspicious implies some level of doubt. Personally I'm entirely confident that anything Mongoose puts out will be chock full of typos and stupid editing mistakes, and will likely be dropped without warning the moment their mayfly attention span jumps to the next shiny license they inexplicably get a hold of. Their bungled RQ stuff is a fine example of why, but it's hardly their only one. They were particularly dreadful on their miniatures games lines. Just ask anyone who played any of the A Call To Arms stuff how well they were handled - particularly Noble Armada and Star Fleet Battles. I'm told Traveller seems to be avoiding their customary incompetence (perhaps someone finally fired "Lyin' Matt" Sprange?) but my distrust of the company based on past performance runs so deep I'll never buy anything from them again.