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.

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