Mongoose stirred the roleplaying community when, in 2006, it announced the return of RuneQuest - one of the most loved and respected game systems of all time. That new edition introduced several changes to the basic system and brought RuneQuest to a new and wider community of gamers. Now, in 2009, Mongoose is delighted to announce the release of RuneQuest II. This new edition of the classic game has taken just about every aspect of the first edition, scrutinised it, revised it, and restructured it to bring RuneQuest aficionados and new players alike the very best incarnation of the classic games engine. RuneQuest fans will not be disappointed in the attention lavished on this edition. This edition comes as a stunning leather-bound luxury hardback as standard, ensuring every player has a true collector's item on their shelves.

Core Rulebook

Mythras Core rules Mythras is the acclaimed roleplaying game from The Design Mechanism. For those new to the game, Mythras is a straightforward, roll-under percentile system. In Mythras your characters are defined by their culture, career, community, background, comrades, skills, magic and cults. Progression is through skill advancement - not levels or similarly abstract concepts. As your characters adventure and quest, their capabilities improve and their relationships deepen and strengthen. Players and Games Masters have complete flexibility over what can be achieved, and the way characters develop is entirely dependent on choices players make, depending on their characters' aspirations and motivations. Games Masters receive a huge amount of support through the Mythras rules. All the concepts and game mechanics are explained clearly with options and considerations explored and presented for ease of use. You need only this rulebook for many years of exciting and imaginative play. Mythras contains everything needed for play, except for dice and friends. It includes five magic systems, innovative combat, over 60 creatures, and copious guidance on how to use the rules and run Mythras games! Come and try one of the best roleplaying systems around...

2nd edition rules reprint

RuneQuest Monsters II brings a whole new set of creatures to your RuneQuest games, drawing on Earth-bound reality and myths along with those of Glorantha and worlds beyond. Within the pages of this book are new enemies to fight, new wonders to witness and an expanded Chaotic Features table to lend the fiends of entropy that extra, nerve-shredding edge. This book expands on what has gone before, and offers guidance on designing ecologies that support the creatures to be found within RuneQuest Monsters II - making them living, breathing entities rather than simple blocks of statistics are fodder for swords and slings.

Together in one volume, the essential deep-dive into Glorantha's fascinating and exotic Elder Races: Uz, Aldryami, Dragonewts, Mostali and Ducks. In these pages you will learn all you need to know for roleplaying these species in your RuneQuest II Gloranthan campaigns. Each race is detailed in terms of history, culture, religion, philosophies and biology, with all the necessary game mechanics, roleplaying notes and statistics. Myths for these races explore their heritage and attitudes - essential to understanding their non-human natures.