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[Scribe]

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Received my first way out of line estimate. No, that work is not worth a couple grand, you are out of your mind and I'll just do it myself.

 

[RealAlHazred]

RuneQuest, really? Palladium FRP definitely, but the RuneQuest I'm familiar with is the progenitor of Basic Roleplay System (same core as Call of Cthulhu). It DOES have ability scores mostly on a 3-18 scale (with 5 of the 7 overlapping with D&D), but it's a % skill-based system rather than class & level, HP don't increase over time, spells use mana points IIRC... Was original RQ closer?

RuneQuest wa mechanically mostly developed by Steve Perrin as an outgrowth of his tinkering with D&D. You can see a lot of the basic stuff in his contributions to Alarums & Excursions.

EDIT: To be clear, I'm more saying proto-RQ was based on D&D. It rapidly diverged. But at the start, it was basically D&D with percentile dice for combat, skills, and magic points instead of spell levels; these were all things he wanted to change about the D&D he played at his table. It was the D&D of Theseus, you might say.