>We may even discover why Avalon Hill appear to have dropped
>the RuneQuest rules system altogether - in favour of a new
>RPG rules system.
I think only one person picked up on this, but I was too busy to reply then and lacked clarification from Avalon Hill. I'm still outrageously busy, but I have got some clarification from AH.
The deal is that the old rules based on RQ2 & 3 are dead. My understanding is that Avalon Hill will continue to use RuneQuest as a trademark for their Fantasy RPG, but with a new set of rules which won't be compatible with the old RQ2/3 rules. They regard the old rules as too dated for today's market.
So, there you have it. RQ4, as we know it, must therefore be presumed dead. Whatever they do produce is unlikely to resemble old RQ and will anyway be for a totally new game world.
As a result of all of this, I understand that the Malatain project (Imther as was) has also been canned by AH. This is a great pity, and I just hope that Chaosium can pick up the ball again on this (and play fair with it).
Cheers,
David Hall
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