ElfQuest TTRPG Returns For New Printing

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Chaosium is bringing back the ElfQuest roleplaying game. Today, Chaosium announced that it would produce a "classic reissue" of ElfQuest: The Official Roleplaying Game, which was originally released in 1984. The game is an official adaptation of the popular fantasy indie comic created by Wendy and Richard Pini. A Kickstarter for the RPG will launch in October 2024, with plans to publish the game in its original box edition format, with later supplements included. The Kickstarter will help fund new printings of all the 1984 publications.

ElfQuest is a culturally significant comic first published in 1978. The Pinis chose to self-publish the original series, although it was later reprinted by Marvel and DC, with Dark Horse publishing a follow-up series called The Final Quest. ElfQuest was one of the first "indie" comic successes, bridging the divide between the underground comics movement and the later explosion of indie comics during the 1980s and 1990s.

The ElfQuest TTRPG uses Chaosium's Basic Roleplaying System and was originally written by Steve Perrin, Sandy Petersen, and Yurek Chodak. Chaosium president Rick Meints will lead the Chaosium team working on the new reprint, with Meints also having led the Call of Cthulhu Classic and RuneQuest Classic reprints. The Pinis will work with Chaosium on the new ElfQuest RPG's development and presentation.
 

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You can read all the older comics for free on their website.

 

I owned the box set ages ago (the mid-90s). I never did get to play it, but it seemed like a well put together game.
 

Huh, neat. I've heard good thing about ElfQuest but never got around to it.
Nice to see another Fantasy game using BRP, even if it's using an edition older than I am. How DOES older BRP play, compared to CoC 7E?
 


ElfQuest is certainly a property I saw a lot of back in the day, but I've never read a comic nor played the game. I have no idea why I never even made an attempt to read it.
 



Huh, neat. I've heard good thing about ElfQuest but never got around to it.
Nice to see another Fantasy game using BRP, even if it's using an edition older than I am. How DOES older BRP play, compared to CoC 7E?
The older editions have fewer rules overall, the rules they do have are less crunchy, and therefore there's less to look up. As such, they rely more on the referee and play a lot faster. The often maligned Resistance Table makes a lot more sense than 7E's weird way of doing opposed rolls.
 
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