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AH857 RuneQuest Deluxe Edition (1984)


RuneQuest Fantasy Roleplaying Adventure

Your mounts are thirsty and weary. The green lands of home are many days behind. You ride into peril and fate unforeseen, for the dangers, monsters, and powers ahead are vast.

But you and your friends are tough and cunning. You have mastered many of RuneQuest’s hundreds of magical spells and conditions. You have chosen weil from over 80 weapons and 11 types of armor. Each of you is different and individual – you belong to definite cultures, your parents taught you crafts, trades, and skills. You have joined together to accomplish heroic deeds, and the mightiest evil will pause before your determined fellowship.

RuneQuest unites game and imaginative reality. The combat rules are drawn from the author’s long experience with hand-to-hand combat. Using the magic rules you can recreate any wizard or mage of ficticn or film, or create new ones yet undreamed of. By manipulating a few basic values you can play individual and unique adventures drawn from ten intelligent species.

Unparalleled realism and flexibility are yours, supported by rules easily understood and enjoyable to play. Though the RuneQuest rules examples are set in the Dark Ages of fantasy Errope, the game system is playable within any fantasy world.

RuneQuest 3rd Edition Rules


Contents

Boxed edition of RuneQuest, written by Chaosium, published by Avalon Hill. Designed for fantasy Europe, although Book 5 was for Glorantha.

  • What’s in the box (players notes)
  • Book 1 – Player’s Book, authors: Steve Perrin, Greg Stafford, Steve Henderson, Lynn Willis
  • Book 2 – Magic Book, authors: Greg Stafford, Charlie Krank, Raymond Turney
  • Book 3 – Gamemaster’s Book, authors: Greg Stafford, Charlie Krank, Ken Rolston, Sandy Petersen, Steve Perrin
  • Book 4 – Creatures Book, authors: Sandy Petersen, Steve Perrin
  • Book 5 – Glorantha Book, authors: Greg Stafford, Sandy Petersen, Lynn Willis
  • Game Aids
  • Fantasy Europe map.

Cover
Back of box
Contents
Map of Europe
Avalon Hill Jan 1985 Catalog showing separate components for sale
  • AH857 RuneQuest Deluxe Edition – Book 1 Players Book Index
  • AH857 RuneQuest Deluxe Edition – Contents
  • AH857 RuneQuest Deluxe Edition – Book 4 Creatures Book Index
  • AH857 RuneQuest Deluxe Edition – Book 5 Creatures
  • AH857 RuneQuest Deluxe Edition – Book 5 Glorantha Book Index

Related Pages

  • AH8570 RuneQuest Deluxe Edition (Softback) (1993)
  • AH8571 Runequest Player’s Edition (1985)
  • AH85711 Gloranthan Bestiary (1988)
  • AH85712 Apple Lane (1987)
  • AH85713 Snake Pipe Hollow (1987)
  • AH85714 RuneQuest Cities (4th edition) (1988)
  • AH85715 Into the Troll Realms (1988)
  • AH85716 The Haunted Ruins (1989)
  • AH85717 Daughters of Darkness and the Chronicles of Santon (1990)
  • AH8572 Runequest Gamemaster’s Box (1985)
  • AH8573 Monster Coliseum (Box 1 – 1985)
  • AH8574 Human Adventurer Sheets (Box 2 – 1985)
  • AH8575 Non-human Adventurer Sheets (Box 3 – 1985)
  • AH8576 Vikings (Box 4 – 1985)
  • AH8577 Gods of Glorantha (Box 05 – 1985)
  • AH8578 Griffin Island (Box 06 – 1986)
  • AH8579 Runequest Standard Edition (1986)
  • AH8584 Land of Ninja (Box 07 – 1986)
  • AH8585 Glorantha – Genertela, Crucible of the Hero Wars (Box 08 – 1988)
  • AH8586 Trollpak (Box 09 – 1988)
  • AH8587 Troll Gods: The Deities of Darkness (Box 10 – 1989)
  • AH8588 Elder Secrets of Glorantha (Box 11 – 1989)
  • AH8589 Eldarad – The Lost City (1990)
  • AH85906 Sun County (1992)
  • AH8591 River of Cradles (1992)
  • AH8592 Dorastor: Land of Doom (1993)
  • AH8593 Strangers in Prax (1994)
  • AH8594 Shadows on the Borderland (1993)
  • AH8595 Lords of Terror (1994)
  • Dragon Pass (1983)
  • Heroes Magazine (1984-1986)
  • RuneQuest Third Edition Errata (1990s)

1984, Avalon Hill, Boxed set, Charlie Krank, Greg Stafford, Ken Rolston, Lynn Willis, Ray Turney, RQ3, Sandy Petersen, Steve Henderson, Steve Perrin

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