Check out the cover here. This is not a photoshop; Rick Mients, the new Glorantha boss, shared the cover on social media and has also posted the table of contents.

Looks like this product is going to be referred to as the "Classic Edition" and will at long last have the errata and editions which were previously printed on the inside covers properly incorporated into the text, making this perhaps the most easy-to-use version of RQ2 yet.

Feels like a really sensible move to me; RQ6 may be a great system but it'd be nice to have this as an alternative, and it shows just how much the new Chaosium management care about the company's history. Hopefully, it also means that Moon Design-Chaosium intend to keep the Glorantha Classics series in print too.

Interestingly, on the Gloranthan group on Google+ Rick mentioned something about "expanded appendices", so this might actually offer a little more than the original RQ2 did.

This probably won't constitute substantial rules changes, since to my understanding the point of the reprint is as a service to the fairly substantial faction in the Glorantha community who still play RQ2 and probably won't be buying into the RQ6 rendition of Glorantha, but it'd be interesting to see what they do. At the very least, the advert for HeroQuest probably deserves a little explanation for those who don't know the history...

And a bit more from Rick on RPGGeek:

QuoteThis will be made available as a Color Hardcover book with sewn binding and as a Leatherette hardcover (gold foil logos) with a color dustjacket. No softcover. The art looks at least as good as the originals, if not better, since they all got cleaned up a fair bit. As was said, I own the original cover color painting by Luise Perrine so it looks extra sharp. The book is 99.9% done, by the way. We are just doing the very last proofreading for typos. The PDF is all bookmarked and ready to go too.

In short, when Greg Stafford told us he was handing Chaosium over to Moon Design because they as well as having sound business sense they are also really enthusiastic fans, he wasn't fucking kidding. This is going to be awesome.

This is a Runequest I can get behind.  I really liked 2nd edition.

Cool - I bought an ancient 2nd hand copy of RQ2, but this looks well worth looking into.

I have a 2nd edition copy signed by Greg Stafford, but I'm reluctant to subject it to the rigours of play - particularly since it's a softcover. It sounds like the new hardcover versions will be sturdier.

I had both the 2nd Ed soft cover and the old gold foil limited edition. They suffered from the "too rare to play with it"-syndrome. It's nice to know I will soon be able to just buy the game 1st hand.

All I know is that the limbs will be a'flying again!

I'm kind of excited about getting a new, sturdy copy of those rules. RQ2 was the first system I really felt sympatico with... though I never did take to Glorantha.

The more I think about it, the more I think I want a leatherette copy.

Give Chaosium 2.0 full credit: when it comes to thinking up ways of getting out of a financial hole they're really on the ball. Revised reprints are so much quicker and less expensive to develop than brand new products, and RQ2 only being available in a shaky softcover format means that there must be hosts of people who'd snap this up simply to have a sturdier copy of the rules at their table.

Add the curiosity factor for those who missed the RQ2 bus first time around - which I'm sure is at a peak thanks to the OSR making people look back at the games of the 1970s - and you've got a product that they can turn out quickly, sell at a premium, and don't necessarily have to print too many of. And thanks to MDP being responsible for Glorantha Classics, they're probably in a better position than anyone to figure out who's still using the RQ2 rules, and people who buy this and get into RQ2 for the first time will find the Glorantha Classics line their first port of call... it's really quite brilliant when you break it down. Just about the only possible downside is product line fragmentation, but so long as they clearly and unambiguously market it as a nostalgia product (and the big fat CLASSIC EDITION branding on the table of contents extracts suggests that's exactly what they intend), it shouldn't do much harm.

(I mean, obviously it's not going to sweep away all Chaosium's debts in one fell swoop, but it's a smart thing they can do to help with it that won't take an undue amount of time away from more pressing issues like getting the CoC7 Kickstarter done.)

Best news ever. Basically all the games Chaosium put out ca. 1977-1985 could have kept their rules in their original forms and they would still look great today. Runequest; Pendragon; Call of Cthulhu; Stormbringer - I think all of them actually play better in their first versions than in later editions.

Quote from: estar;864042All I know is that the limbs will be a'flying again!

I ran an awesome RQ2 game last Xmas and there was a hilarious fight in which half of the dozen combatants had an arm or leg hacked off in the same round.

Hopefully there will be a nice PDF of it as well.

Rick said there will be.