RuneQuest Rules Page

This page is dedicated solely to the RuneQuest rules, the niceties, the complexities and the myriad of variant systems that people have made. It should hopefully one day contain some brief commentary, but at the moment has a wide number of links.

Variant Systems

General House Rules

Michael Derry's house rules and a second set here.
Peter Keel's house rules
Peter Maranci's house rules
Alain Rameau has rules for armouring and poisons THESE LINKS ARE BROKEN
Antti Rasila's house rules
Neville White's house rules
Jayson Wilburg's house rules LINK BROKEN
Jane William's house rules LINK BROKEN
Kim Englund has two sets of house rules, one for his A-Team Campaign, and one for his Pavis campaign. Nikk Effingham's house rules

Michael Derry has one for his Red Moon Over Sartar campaign.
Alain Rameau's character generation rulesLINK BROKEN
Antti Rasila's character generation rules
Ron Shigeta's character generation rules
Nikk Effingham's character generation rules.

From the large number of completley different alternatives for RQIII sorcery, I think we can safely assume that the basic core system is innately flawed. Here a some of the alternative sorcery systems available:

Sandy Petersen's excellent sorcery system can be found in HTML on three different sites. Try clicking here, here, or here. They are available in plain text format by clicking here.

In addition to this, there are more pages discussing alterations and additions to Sandy's Sorcery system showing how popular it is!!
Philip Hibbs and Jim Pattullo's Eastern Sorcery Rules
Comments and Discussions on Sandy Petersen's Sorcery System
Nikk Effingham's Comments on Sandy Petersen's Sorcery System
Peter Maranci's Runci Sorcery system
Paul Reilly's Sorcery system
David Cake's Sorcery system (note:written in PostScript format

Besides sorcery, other alternatives exist to the magic systems, including alternative Rune Magic systems, additional magic systems and psionics!

Tal Meta's Psionic system
Paolo Guccione's Runic Magic system
Philip Hibbs' Spell Fumble Tables
Andrew Mellinger's Additional Spells
Alain Rameau's Additional Spells
Jayson Wilburg's Runic Magick
Various Alchemy Systems

Michael Derry's Troop Rules
YAHQS For Battles

Sanity rules for RuneQuest
A short description of the RuneQuest system
The RuneQuest Rules Digest archives which are dedicated to debating the RuneQuest system

There are lots of alternative rule-systems to RuneQuest if you wish to play in Glorantha, as well as rules to use RQ in other game worlds. Here are links to some of them:

Nick Eden's Moon Wars, a system based on West End's Star Wars/D6 system
Lewis Jardine's BODGERS
Simon Hibbs' Argrath!, based on Chaosium's Elric!
Neville White's Dark Sun Conversion Notes
Sandy Petersen's Tekumel notes