About RuneQuest Essentials This edition of RuneQuest is a heavily edited and pared-down version of the full rulebook. Grecheskij shrift russkij. Although the core of the system is intact, this Essentials Edition is intended to be a sampler for the main rules and, hopefully, encour-age players.
Some of you might wonder what the heck is RuneQuest (a Co Creation of Greg Stafford, Steve Perrin and Ray Turney), and let's just say for the uninitiated that it is a classic RPG which originated at Chaosium, was published for the first time in 1978, and was the base for the Basic Role Playing system and Call of Cthulhu RPG, as well as the main RPG where Greg Stafford's world of Glorantha was originally developed for a long time (before finding a home in HeroQuest).