From: Nick Brooke (100270.337@CompuServe.COM)
Date: Mon 30 Aug 1993 - 10:47:16 EEST
Hi, guys:
The same niggling doubt crosses my mind with regard to basing RQLite on
Elric (basically a good idea, IMHO) as did earlier this year when people
were singing the praises of the Ringworld skill and combat mechanics (not
such a good idea, IMHO):
Is Avalon Hill really going to want to buy the rights to use these rules
sets from Chaosium? If not, will they be able to use them at all?
Same goes for RuneQuest / Pendragon variants. Now, I happen to love the
PenDragon Pass concept, and am working on something similar myself. But I
don't imagine that anyone at AH or Chaosium would be too pleased if any
elements of that system crept into RQ4 without due acknowledgements, etc.
being given.
It's a knotty problem, but one we ought to bear in mind. If anyone out
there does have a better understanding of the position between the two
camps, could they let the rest of us know? Like, is there an official KR /
AH position on whether or not "RQ4" (whatever it turns out to be) should be
made compatible with newer and more sophisticated BRP-based designs? Has
any attempt been made to get Chaosium input into the "RQ4" rewrite project?
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Nick
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