Mongoose RuneQuest II is now becoming "Legend"

[DigitalMage]

Mongoose have relinquished the RuneQuest and Glorantha licences but are keeping the MRQII system and rebranding it now as Legend (not Wayfarer as previously intended).

Planet Mongoose Blog Announcement

I am actually really excited about this new game. They will have learnt a few lessons from MRQII and so will likely clarify some of the sticking points.

Also it will be digest sized, which I love!

The name "Legend" allows for some cool supplement titles too in the vein of "X of Legend", e.g. Monsters of Legends, Arms of Legends, Vikings of Legend, and perhaps Heroes of Legend, Adventures of Legend etc :)

And it will be an open system, presumaby released under the OGL with the whole of the core line OGC apparently. Excellent.

Is anyone else excited about this?

[hogarth]

I'm fairly indifferent to Chaosium-style systems.

Will there still be ducks? ;-)

[Aubrey the Malformed]

I guess not since they are Gloranthan content.

[Dale McCoy Jr]

Ducks are open content. So I imagine there will be.

I might try releasing the Book of Beasts under the Legend License and see how it does. It sounds interesting atleast.

[hogarth]

Aubrey the Malformed wrote:

I guess not since they are Gloranthan content.

The idea of an anthropomorphic duck did not originate with Runequest, I'm pretty sure. Similarly, I could create a game with orcs and wights without getting slapped with a lawsuit from Wizards of the Coast or the estate of J.R.R. Tolkien.

[Aubrey the Malformed]

Yeah - I guess a duck is a duck, when I think about it...

[Bluenose]

When the armies of Killer Penguins arrive, the duck-lovers will be first up against the wall. Oh, yes, we've got a list of your names.

I also note that they're now going to be publishing the existing Wayfarer RPG. I suspect they weren't even aware of it's existence before. Wayfarer and Traveller would have been a sensible match, Legend and Traveller not so much. Although I suspect 'Xs of Legend' titles might instead be 'Legendary Xs '.