The Design Mechanism and the Future of RuneQuest

[Lawrence Whitaker]

Its with great pleasure and excitement that I'm able to announce that The Design Mechanism, the new company formed by myself and Pete Nash, has successfully reached an agreement with Issaries Inc to become the new licensee for RuneQuest. The full Press Release can be found on the RuneQuest page at The Design Mechanism along with a detailed Q&A sheet for those who want to know more about what we have in store for RQ.

Greg Stafford, Issaries President, had this to say on the agreement: "RuneQuest is an old, highly respected brand that requires creativity, dedication and knowledge of the product. I know that Loz and Pete have that, plus enthusiasm and professionalism that will keep up the reputation and good name. I am pleased."

Clearly its early days for both Design Mechanism and RuneQuest's 6th edition but we have exciting plans for the game building on the work Pete and I have already done with Mongoose's RuneQuest II and we look forward to sharing them with the roleplaying community as we develop the new rules.

Lawrence

 

[Walking Dad]

Congratulations!!!

I really like the direction MRQ II had taken. I will watch this closely

Maybe you should also post this here:

http://www.enworld.org/forum/rpg-industry-forum/

 

[tenkar]

Runequest is going the way of D&D it seems. Between RQ6, OpenQuest and whatever Mongoose is calling their next version there should should be a RQ ruleset available as a "living system" for a good long time.

I still have my RQ2 hardcover