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Originally Posted by smascrns
As Voriof wrote, Greg Stafford is supposed to have the rights for the "RuneQuest" trademark. It seems that he intended to use it in the Gloranthan context, given the past history of that name.
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Correct. We have licensed the trademark to Mongoose.
The Glorantha-based game will be dependant upon Issaries approval.
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In the other thread about RuneQuest Matt mentions the possibility of doing an Arthurian version of the new RQ. Now, Greg is working on a new edition of Pendragon. I can hardly see how he would be interested in having someone else writting down a competing game... with a name he owns.
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A RQ-based Arthurian game, historically-oriented, is quite different from the Malory-based Pendragon.
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Finally, RuneQuest means BRP. RuneQuest without BRP is a lame duck (pun intended). It's like D&D without classes and alignments. Of course, Mongoose will not be able to come out with a BRP game since Chaosium is working on a new BRP and, needless to say, why would they want someone else to come with a competing product?
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The game will be the same system, not the same copyrighted words.
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All of this is very confusing and looks a lot more like a prank than an actual project. If and when the details and explanations are sort out I'll may contribute to the project. But at this stage it simply seems to be someone playing with people in RPGnet.
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It is not a prank. Announcement on the glorantha.com web site soon.
Look, RQ is down and gritty, HQ is cinematic and epic. Issaries will have some sort of conversion notes for using the Mongoose RQ materials, when they are out.
Finally, we are still discussing exactly when and where the Mongoose Glorantha game will be.
- Greg Stafford