Quote from: Warthur;864082Rick said there will be.

That's very cool.  It's nice they are reprinting it, but I'm sure the deluxe version will be $50 at least.  Good to have a less expensive option.

Sweeeeeeeeeeeet.

Make nice with Michael Moorcock next, please. Then do the same with 1st Ed STORMBRINGER.

Quote from: Warthur;864082Rick said there will be.

Oh yeah... I missed that bit.
I definitely want hardcopy, and I do expect to pay a bit of a premium for it... but a PDF will come in handy whan actually running it.

Is it really needed though? This past summer I bought Runequest 6 for almost $90 and it's a pretty darn good set of rules. I'll be happy to play that someday if I can convince my friends.

Thank goodness, my old softcover copy is physically disintegrating.

for thoughs of us who arnt familiar with RQ 2e (or RQ at all in my case) what changed in later eds in short ?

Quote from: Doughdee222;864116This past summer I bought Runequest 6 for almost $90 and it's a pretty darn good set of rules.

Why did it cost you so much?

QuoteIs it really needed though?

Is any hobby item ever 'needed'?
Desired is more like.
RQ6 is very nice but it does change a number of things... XP works differently, the Resistance Formula/Table is gone... various shifts of things toward being slightly heavier rules-wise. I remain quite fond of the way RQ2/BRP/CoC did XP and the Resistance Formula never bugged me... so it's that much closer to the way I play BRP-derived games... AND I'd really like a new copy so I can retire my old one.

I think I'm the only one saddened by this.  Instead of making a new car, with better features and maybe better gas mileage, this hobby has got to be the only one in which trotting out the old Model T is praised.

Gamers hate change.  This is what threads like this tells me.

If it's not how was back in the day, it's crap.

Quote from: Simlasa;864134Why did it cost you so much?

Is any hobby item ever 'needed'?
Desired is more like.
RQ6 is very nice but it does change a number of things... XP works differently, the Resistance Formula/Table is gone... various shifts of things toward being slightly heavier rules-wise. I remain quite fond of the way RQ2/BRP/CoC did XP and the Resistance Formula never bugged me... so it's that much closer to the way I play BRP-derived games... AND I'd really like a new copy so I can retire my old one.

It was the cheapest Amazon had. I went to several stores and no one else had it.

Quote from: Christopher Brady;864138I think I'm the only one saddened by this.  Instead of making a new car, with better features and maybe better gas mileage, this hobby has got to be the only one in which trotting out the old Model T is praised.

Gamers hate change.  This is what threads like this tells me.

If it's not how was back in the day, it's crap.

And see, I totally disagree with what seem to be your assumptions that new is automatically better.
Games are NOT technology... they change to suit fads and tastes and the company need to create cash flow/new product... but there's absolutely no reason to assume that I'm going to like a game created today better than one created in the 70s... or visa versa.
Old games still work just the same as they always did, don't require special fuels or antiquated replacement parts. You might change, your tastes may shift... but the game doesn't.
I've played LOTS of different systems. Some I like, some I don't. But if I find one I like I'm not going to feel guilty about returning to it. It's not 'nostalgia'... it's not like some guy who won't listen to any music that came out after he left High School.
It's more like food... if you try eating steak and like it, why stop eating steak? Not that you have to have steak at every meal, but why write it off just because you were eating steak as a kid?
And if you don't like steak why force yourself to eat it in the name of some ersatz 'progress'?

Quote from: Doughdee222;864139It was the cheapest Amazon had. I went to several stores and no one else had it.

Oh, was it after it went out of print because of the Chaosium shakeup?
I had to do a bit of a search to find a BRP hardcover... the 'entrepreneurs' on Amazon and Ebay were pricing them in the hundreds and even thousands. In the end I managed to track down a copy on the shelves at Games of Berkely and had a friend up there grab it for me... at regular retail price.
I'm still on the hunt for a second copy of the Rome book (at a reasonable price).

RQ 6 is still available for sale at $60 on The Design Mechanism's website.

Half the RPG books on Amazon are great deals, and the other half are unjustified price qouging.

On the positive end, I got a hardcover of RQ 2 with dustjacket for $40 through Amazon. The actual seller was an office supply company, so I expect they had no idea what they were selling.

Quote from: Warthur;864050and 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.

I could swear that a friend of mine had a hardcover of RQ2. I remember that because I wondered that it even had a dustjacket, something I had never seen on an RPG book before.


Edit: Good to see that Baulderstone knows that edition as well. I was not dreaming.

Huh, wasn't aware of that. Even so, the vast majority of copies I've seen out there have been softcover so I reckon the point still stands.

Quote from: Baulderstone;864145RQ 6 is still available for sale at $60 on The Design Mechanism's website.

Oh! Good! For some reason I was under the impression they'd pulled it in anticipation of the new Glorantha-added version... which, now that I think about it, makes no sense.
So many other things... Chaosium monographs, BRP stuff... all the BRP stuff Alephtar did... have been yanked, sold-out, nullified.