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Other variants and off-shoots in the fantasy genre are plentiful; the first Mongoose edition was published under an open gaming license, leading to a fan named Paul "Newt" Newport using it (and years of personal house rules) as the basis of a rules-light version called ''OpenQuest'' (first released in 2009, 2013 saw a second edition), Mongoose themselves have continued to print their second edition as ''Legend'' (with the Glorantha material removed) and The Design Mechanism plans to do the same with the 6th edition under the title ''Mythras''. As it's a largely modular system, they're all largely compatible, and players can freely lift elements from any one edition and use them in their home games easily. |
Other variants and off-shoots in the fantasy genre are plentiful; the first Mongoose edition was published under an open gaming license, leading to a fan named Paul "Newt" Newport using it (and years of personal house rules) as the basis of a rules-light version called ''OpenQuest'' (first released in 2009, 2013 saw a second edition), Mongoose themselves have continued to print their second edition as ''Legend'' (with the Glorantha material removed) and The Design Mechanism plans to do the same with the 6th edition under the title ''Mythras''. As it's a largely modular system, they're all largely compatible, and players can freely lift elements from any one edition and use them in their home games easily. |
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Glorantha is also the setting of the video-game King of Dragon Pass and the web-comic Prince of Sartar. There are two separate continuities: that of Mongoose ''RuneQuest'' (Glorantha Second |
Glorantha is also the setting of the video-game King of Dragon Pass and the web-comic Prince of Sartar. There are two separate continuities: that of Mongoose ''RuneQuest'' (Glorantha Second Age) and the main, more canonical one (set in the Third Age). |
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