RuneQuest, commonly abbreviated RQ, is a fantasy tabletop role-playing game originally designed by Steve Perrin, Ray Turney, Steve Henderson and Warren James, and set in Greg Stafford's mythical world of Glorantha. It was first published in 1978 by The Chaosium. From 1984 publication passed between a number of companies, including Avalon Hill, Mongoose Publishing and The Design Mechanism, before returning to Chaosium in 2016. The game is notable for a system built around percentile dice and an early implementation of skill rules, which became the basis for numerous other games, among them the Basic Role-Playing booklet that Chaosium later spun out of it. Several editions of the game have been published.
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is a fantasy tabletop role-playing game originally designed by Steve Perrin
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It was first published in 1978 by The Chaosium
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derived from the RuneQuest fantasy role-playing game
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