Michael Hopcroft
Mar 20th, '10, 08:06 PM
I recently got my hands on Runequest II from Mongoose, and it appears that the RQ system is no longer under the OGL, at leats not in its current form. The SRD documents have been taken down from the Mongoose website as well (they were for their first RQ edition a couple of years ago).
As OGL systems go, MRQ was not that successful. I wrote one small supplement for it, but as far as I knwo there were no significan third-party books for it. (The one exception is a Medieval setting called Stupor Mundi, which means "Wonder fo the World" in Latin.) Then there were the ongoing questions about whether Mongoose had the legal right to open the system in the first place given its links to Chaosium's closed BRP/d100 system.
Historically, open content rulings have been Pandora's Boxes for game companies. Once opened, it required truly drastic measures to close them again. Will Mongoose succeed in re-closing Runequest?
As OGL systems go, MRQ was not that successful. I wrote one small supplement for it, but as far as I knwo there were no significan third-party books for it. (The one exception is a Medieval setting called Stupor Mundi, which means "Wonder fo the World" in Latin.) Then there were the ongoing questions about whether Mongoose had the legal right to open the system in the first place given its links to Chaosium's closed BRP/d100 system.
Historically, open content rulings have been Pandora's Boxes for game companies. Once opened, it required truly drastic measures to close them again. Will Mongoose succeed in re-closing Runequest?