Tuesday, October 16, 2018

RuneQuest mention - San Francisco Examiner, 17 April 1979

Here is a clipping from the San Francisco Examiner of 17 April, 1979. It mentions RuneQuest, Greg Stafford, and Chaosium.

Click here to for a full size version (flickr). Pity the second page didn't scan so well on newspapers.com

Some things that stood out:
  • It made the front page! Sweet.
  • The article also mentioned Bunnies & Burrows and Tunnels & Trolls! Ha! Those were the days.
  • They quote Gary Gygax as saying that 30,000 people play "fantasy games."
  • The GM was Charlie Krank.
  • A lovely bit of RuneQuest style combat:
    "...That's a hit with a broadsword. I parried and you hit me." declared Albany High School Sherman Kann.
    "He's holding on to your leg." Krank told Stafford as a tiny metal figure representing Taustig was toppled. "Her left leg is gone."

    So good.


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