Editing RuneQuest (section)

==Legacy==
Chaosium reused the rules system developed in ''RuneQuest'' to form the basis of several other games. In 1980 the core of the ''RuneQuest'' system was published in a simplified form edited by Greg Stafford and [[Lynn Willis]] as ''[[Basic Role-Playing]] (BRP)''. ''BRP'' is a [[generic role-playing game system]], derived from the two first ''RuneQuest'' editions. It was used for many Chaosium role-playing games that followed ''RuneQuest'', including:

* ''[[Stormbringer (role-playing game)|Stormbringer]]'' (1981)
* ''[[Call of Cthulhu (role-playing game)|Call of Cthulhu]]'' (1981)
* ''[[Worlds of Wonder (game)|Worlds of Wonder]]'' (1982)
* ''[[Superworld]]'' (1983)
* ''[[Elfquest (role-playing game)|ElfQuest]]'' (1984)
* ''[[Ringworld (role-playing game)|Ringworld]]'' (1984)
* ''[[Pendragon (role-playing game)|Pendragon]]'' (1985)
* ''[[Hawkmoon (role-playing game)|Hawkmoon]]'' (1985)
* ''[[Nephilim (role-playing game)|Nephilim]]'' (1992)

The science-fiction roleplaying game ''[[Other Suns]]'', published by [[Fantasy Games Unlimited]] in 1983, used the ''Basic Role-Playing'' system as well.

Minor modifications of the ''BRP'' rules were introduced in every one of those games, to suit the flavor of each game's universe. ''[[Pendragon (role-playing game)|Pendragon]]'' used a 1-20 scale and 1d20 roll instead of a percentile scale and 1d100.<ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.maranci.net/rqpast.htm| title = ''Chaosium's Arthurian RPG, Pendragon, can be considered to be the most distantly-related member of the BRP family; the connection is fairly tenuous'' (see the BRP review in the ''Side Notes'' section).}}</ref> ''[[Prince Valiant: The Story-Telling Game]]'' (1989), which used coin tosses instead of dice rolls, is the only Chaosium-published role-playing game that does not use any variant of the ''BRP'' system.

In 2004, Chaosium released a print-on-demand version of the 3rd edition ''RuneQuest'' rules with the trademarks removed under the titles ''Basic Roleplaying Players Book'', ''Basic Roleplaying Magic Book'', and ''Basic Roleplaying Creatures Book''. That same year, Chaosium began preparing a new edition of ''Basic Roleplaying'', which was released in 2008 as a single, comprehensive 400 page book, incorporating material from many of their previous ''BRP'' system games.<ref>[http://www.chaosium.com/article.php?story_id=246 Chaosium.com: News - Basic Roleplaying<!-- Bot generated title -->] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070822131342/http://www.chaosium.com/article.php?story_id=246 |date=August 22, 2007 }}</ref> The book offers many optional rules, as well as genre-specific advice for fantasy, horror, and science-fiction, but contains no setting-specific material.