Re: Advanced RuneQuest from NFranz197_at_aol.com on 1999-11-21 (Glorantha Digest Vol 07)

From: NFranz197_at_aol.com
Date: Sun, 21 Nov 1999 17:33:54 EST

Tim Ellis wrote:
> I think/assume Norbert is misattributing the publisher, not GDW
> (publishers of Traveller) but GW - prior to their current
> incarnation as a Warhammer only outlet, GW were, effectively,
> the British RPG Hobby-Importers, retailers and publishers.
> They had deals with a number of American publishers to print
> English Editions of their games (including AD&D, Paranoia,
> Middle Earth Roleplaying, and a number of Chaosium products
> (CoC, Stormbringer, and, of course RQ)). Generally, other than
> including the GW logo, these products were, to all intents and
> purposes identical to the US Products.

And this is of course 100% true. The indication "GDW" was my typo, in this case. I meant to write "Games Workshop", of course. GW's corporate history is rather interesting to me, too. When I first heard of them in the early 1990s, they were already the Warhammer miniature company, and the publisher of "Blood Bowl" and ... what-was-it-called-again?, ... yeah, "Space Hulk" and its supplements. I only saw those at a friend's place at the time, though. Never played any boardgames much myself.

The front-cover of their hardbound RuneQuest (3rd Edition) was still so much better looking than the Avalon Hill version. I always preferred good, handy volumes over the paper-cover booklets published by AH. At least HW is going to be in a sturdy paperback format, isn't it? (If it is about the size of "King of Sartar" I won't mind, really. Actually it's got to have more pages.) Please tell me that hasn't been changed.

Norbert