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monkeyX's games blog: "QuestWorlds: An Engine Looking for a Showrunner"
https://blog.monkeyx.games/2026/03/06/questworlds-drama-first-dice-later/
Finally got a physical copy of this wonderful thing.
(The finally made a POD version, although I’m not sure when)
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An example of art from HeroQuest and its replacement QuestWorlds. For some reason it was decided that the rules needed a picture of people sitting at a table and playing the game, presumably because such a concept would be impossible to describe in words. So vital was this, indeed, that for QuestWorlds the illustration of a similar scene was made full page (or as much of the page as the cramped layout allows).
In the post today a print copy of Chaosium's QuestWorlds / Hero Wars / HeroQuest / whatever they're calling it this week. Love the compact format (the endpapers and ribbon bookmark matching the colours on the cover is a nice touch), although the pages look to be glued rather than sewn. There's not much interior art, which is a relief as it's no better than the exterior (maybe they couldn't afford Jon Hodgson for the cover this time), but then again the interior art of the previous edition was pretty dire so I was not expecting much. The layout is also rather mediocre. I really do get the feeling that once Moon Design got their hands on RuneQuest they lost interest in QuestWorlds.
I've found the PDF surprisingly hard to read, hence getting the hardback when it was released as I think I may fare better with it. HeroQuest was a book where I had to flick between pages and reread passages to get to grips with the rules, because it's not an obvious concept or execution and it was not particularly clearly explained (In the end I concluded that it was mechanically far simpler than I thought, conceptually rather trickier). I'm not certain that this edition has improved the clarity, but we shall see.
Looks like Chaosium has finally released a print version of QuestWorlds (formerly HeroQuest / HeroWars).
The system has a lot going for it—although its particular style of abstraction is not easy to get to grips with—and it's obvious that Ian Cooper put in a lot of effort with the revision, but the layout and pointless black borders on this edition do it no favours. I really have the feeling that Chaosium lost all interest in the game the moment they got RuneQuest back.
https://www.chaosium.com/questworlds-core-rulebook-hardcover/
Die Lieblingsfrau und ich sind bei unserer heutigen Rollenspielrunde bei #Questworlds #StarTrek als Offiziere im Außeneinsatz unterwegs, um einer mysteriösen Tetrionstrahlung nachzugehen.
In June of 1975 – the same year Greg Stafford founded Chaosium – Lee Gold published the first issue of Alarums & Excursions. Sadly, I just found out that it has ceased publication just shy of its 50th anniversary, and over 590 monthly issues.
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