The best fantasy world system?

[JFarrell71]

What happened to RuneQuest? It was popular when I was a kid but it has not been implemented to computer games as far as I know. I quite liked the world, ruleset and setting.

I'm a fan of RQ, and buy all of the products. I'm not a fan of the current braintrust, sadly, but that's another subject.

Glorantha is one of the deepest, best settings that a tabletop RPG has ever had, and the current edition of Runequest (abbreviated as RQG) uses it as its dedicated setting. Chaosium still publishes products... they're currently publishing an 11 volume "Cults of Runequest" series (for those uninitiated, cults are somewhat akin to classes in other games). There's also a very robust amateur imprint called the Jonstown Compendium. Look up "Ships and Shores of Southern Genertela" to give you an idea of the sort of thing it's capable of.

Runequest has been adapted into computer games in the form of the King of Dragon Pass game and its sequels, one of which just came out this summer. They don't use RQ rules, though; they're more storybook games, with somewhat hidden mechanics. There is an RQ game in development by a studio in Ireland called Black Shamrock, but imo it looks kinda bad.

 

[Dafela]

Quite biased, imho, because it contains only English-language pen & paper systems.
There are a lot more out there.

Just names which come instantly to my mind :
- Tunnels & Trolls https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunnels_&_Trolls
- Hârnmaster https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HârnMaster
- Midgard https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midgard_(role-playing_game)
- Splittermond https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Splittermond
- Numenera https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numenera
- Tails of Equestria https://riverhorse.eu/our-games/my-little-pony-tails-of-equestria/
- Mutant Year Zero https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutant_(role-playing_game)

Besides, I even found a "timeline" in Wikipedia : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_tabletop_role-playing_games

Thank you for the dark eye description and this list - I have heard something about midgard and there is that izometric game Mutant Year Zero, interesting.

EDIT:
There is even WoW dnd 3,5 edition, but the classes are a bit different. Almost every RPG ever created is there. And majority of them are completelly unknown to me.

 

[Dafela]

Thanks to this list I have found list about RPG systems and GURPs is quite old - ups, but it is generic RPG system I guess and they have also history of RPG systems: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Role-playing_game_system

EDIT:
Thanks to this Alrik's list I have found my game : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars_Roleplaying_Game_(Fantasy_Flight_Games) - it is reworked Star Wars (which I forgot to add as fantasy in space) with altered Warhammer 3 edition rules with careers. I'm a bit spoiled with Baldurs gate setting, and their Outer world, but I would prefer Star Wars setting before Starfield or Mass Effect any time as fantasy freak.

 

[Alrik Fassbauer]

Well, for the Star Wars universe there have been several rulew systems, by various developers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars_role-playing_games
The far most work was doine by West End Games, though. They laid down all of the ground work for almost everything little detail we take for granted in that universe, up to the many ship names, for example.

Regarding the pen & paper licence being with Wizards Of The Coast, and they making what looked to me, then, as some kind of Dungeons & Dragons converted to the Star Wars universe, I once long ago wrote an opinion article about that at the RPGDot, saying that "Star Wars is Dungeons & Dragons now" and got heavily critizised by the RPGCodex for that. As a result, I withdrew from writing any articles at all. I'll never forget that. It's a grudge I will hold forevermore against anything that is affilliated with the Codex. I will never stop remembering that, even when I'm old.

 

[Dafela]

What they didn't like about it?

I was playing Star Wars DnD long time ago, I didn't know about the original one, it was quite fun, but I have this obsession with roleplaying experimenting with professions/careers so that is my priority.

I have found even better career system also based on Warhammer, but with derived abilities - Zweihänder https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zweihänder_(role-playing_game)