Can we add Runequest as a game type?

Been playing request for years. Would really like to have it as a game type, to help promote the game and get other people using the site.

Yes please. RuneQuest is still relevant, with its magnificent and acclaimed 6th edition released in 2012. It's been my favorite game since having been introduced to it 2 years ago.

The best part this would only take a sec to implement, and make it much easier for request players to find content.

Yes please. It's a game with a legacy nearly as long as D&D's.

Belgath said: The best part this would only take a sec to implement, and make it much easier for request players to find content. The goal for the list of games in the LFG tool is that anyone search for that game will find a listing, no matter when they search. That's the bar a game needs to meet in order to get added to the list. In other words, if you want a game added to the list, encourage more people to play the game.

So Brian, would you interpret that it is more the number of people playing the game, or the number of openings offered on the LFG under that game system? Those can be fairly different factors, as Roll20's recent game data spreadsheet release quantified to an extent.

I interpret that as number of games being run with the system, possibly limited to those with public LFG listings.

With out the flags how can you know how many play. The only way I've been able to find games is to follow links from other sites. Most are not listed as RuneQuest, Legend just the campaign name. You have no real way of knowing who ever even play the game type.

Another vote in favor of listing RQ, it's the main game I've played for many many years.

We too run RQ campaigns not identifiable as such.

Yep, we have an official character sheet, would be nice to have it as an official type too.

All character sheets are community created. While the Devs would prefer there be one sheet for each game system (for simplicity) it should not be construed that there is an official sheet.

It does seem like an odd distinction to have a character sheet for a game and not have the game be available to use for your description of what you are playing. Maybe it would make sense to have the character sheet in use for the game(if it is one of the approved roll20 sheets) be used for determining the "playing" listing if the system isn't in the normal drop down? That would solve the issues of standardizing the listing names at least. Then the devs might be able to get a clearer picture of what games that aren't on the list are most popular. Although I guess the devs could already look at how many games are using a particular sheet in the first place.

The fact of the time is been taken to generate a character sheet, is a good indicator of enough community support To have it listed as a game type.

Not necessarily. I know there are some sheets for a couple of pretty obscure systems out there, and some of them only have sheet because 1 or 2 diehards happen to code, or be willing to pay for a sheet to be coded for them.

Belgath said: The fact of the time is been taken to generate a character sheet, is a good indicator of enough community support To have it listed as a game type. I created a sheet for Unknown Ponies: Failure is Awesome . (A system based on Unknown Armies set in the My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic universe.) It is available for use by anyone, since I submitted it to the repo. I seriously doubt very many people are playing it. The presence of a sheet means there is at least some one who likes the system enough (and has the skills) to put in the time to make the sheet, not that there are a lot of people who like the system. In my case, I'm running a UP:FiA campaign and my players wanted a sheet. I made one, and since adding it to the repo is a matter of a json file and a few button clicks, I submitted it, as well.

Brian said: Belgath said: The fact of the time is been taken to generate a character sheet, is a good indicator of enough community support To have it listed as a game type. I created a sheet for Unknown Ponies: Failure is Awesome . (A system based on Unknown Armies set in the My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic universe.) It is available for use by anyone, since I submitted it to the repo. I seriously doubt very many people are playing it. The presence of a sheet means there is at least some one who likes the system enough (and has the skills) to put in the time to make the sheet, not that there are a lot of people who like the system. In my case, I'm running a UP:FiA campaign and my players wanted a sheet. I made one, and since adding it to the repo is a matter of a json file and a few button clicks, I submitted it, as well. Given that aparrently MLP has a bigger following than Firefly/Serenity, I would not be surprised if people stumble into your character sheet and start googling those rules 'cause it peeks their intrest. But that's beside the point of this thread. Thing is the only choices you have now when playing RQ is to pick 'other', 'Call of Cthulu' ( using a D100 system in a specific setting) or do nothing. Could adding D100 as a game type be useful? The recent success of the addition of rules for the glorantha setting to 13th age (which is a game on the list) will make it even harder to distinguish RQ/BRP/legend/SPQR/... based glorantha games based on title alone. Perhaps we just have to admit the RQ playerbase has dwindled from being one of the big three (together with DnD and traveler) games to a negligible few thousand nostalgics with a lot of money who mainly play offline?

If there was someway we could make it eazer to find the games? ie type in are own game type? Jest someway make to make it easier for people to find us. Maybe only there only 20 or 30 players but with all subscriptions I still think it's worthwhile. Would adding all the major systems really hamper the search ability of your web page?

Roger A. said: It does seem like an odd distinction to have a character sheet for a game and not have the game be available to use for your description of what you are playing. Belgath said: If there was someway we could make it eazer to find the games? ie type in are own game type? @Roger and @Belgath, you can already do this, in a different way. Check this out. As GM use the "Description" field to type in your game name and other descriptive informative details. As a searcher on the LFG, type the game name in the "Matching Keywords" search instead of the games drop-down listings. As GM of your campaign that you want to list in the LFG -- Type "RuneQuest" in your Description field. Description field is free text and you can type whatever you want. People can find the word you typed by using the LFG keywords search. This is the same way people find games which are "Text only", or "Skype", or "high fantasy", or "grid-free", or "Monopoly", or any other word that isn't existing as a game title in the drop-down listing. I would like to make it clear that I support adding more game titles on the Drop-down menu & my reply is intended as a helpful workaround, in agreement with your suggestion not opposing it. But in the meantime you are not left in the cold without recourse to list your game. You simply need to type "RuneQuest" into the Description field , since you cannot select it from the drop-down list for the Playing field . It is a common misconception because people don't realize the power of the free-text Description box paired with the Matching Keywords search field in the LFG. You can certainly list your RuneQuest game here and now and it can be found by others if people know to use the Matching Keywords field. Evidently no one has a current listing that is active in LFG today talking about RuneQuest or d100. I've just tested the keyword search looking for either term. There are 6 games who use the keyword "Quest" which proves that the search works for a word whether it is a game title or not. There are zero games in LFG using the word "RuneQuest" today, sadly. Maybe some of you guys who want to offer RuneQuest could post up a new LFG listing using RuneQuest as a Keyword. Then we could test it and prove this works.

Thanks for the helpful reply I appreciate it.

If the drop down list becomes unmanagable, would it be an idea to make a subdivision in gametype families first (e.g. DnD, Storytelling, Fate, D100, ... )? It seems to me it's mostly iterations of gamesystems that would be clogging up the list, Right now there's 6 DnD variants and 5 WoD variants (funny thing there's both "Any White Wolf game", "World of Darkness" and "Vampire: the Masquerade", prompting GMs to choose all three). 11 out of 40 on the list, that's over 25% of your list taken up by these two game-families. When roll20 grows and more boardgames like "Settlers of Catan" become available, a boardgame category might be of interest too. Might be even cool to introduce both a setting and a gamesystem field ("ADnD" in "Forgotten Realms" or "RQ6" in "Glorantha" or "nWoD" in "Chicago") but that setting list would become a lot more bloated than the current gamesystem list.

Runequest got enough players to make it onto our game list. It is an option on live as of today.