Well after publishing Runequest III, Avalon Hill

Avalon Hill

Avalon Hill was a game company that specialized in wargames and strategic board games. Its logo contained its initials "AH", and it was often referred to by this abbreviation. It also published the occasional miniature wargaming rules, role-playing game, and had a popular line of sports simulations...

 decided to revive the name Runequest

RuneQuest

RuneQuest is a fantasy role-playing game first published in 1978 by Chaosium, created by Steve Perrin and set in Greg Stafford's mythical world of Glorantha. RuneQuest was notable for its original gaming system and for its verisimilitude in adhering to an original fantasy world...

. Slated for a 1998 release, RuneQuest: Slayers, did not resemble the original Runequest in regards to rules or its original setting of Glorantha

Glorantha

Glorantha is the Fantasy world created by Greg Stafford and since used as the background for several role-playing games, including RuneQuest , Hero Wars and HeroQuest , as well as several works of fiction and the computer strategy game King of Dragon Pass...

. Avalon Hill hired new designers on the project to start over with a fresh approach. This included shelving the original rules system (which Chaosium

Chaosium

Chaosium is one of the longer lived publishers of role-playing games still in existence. Founded by Greg Stafford, its first game was actually a wargame, White Bear and Red Moon, which later mutated into Dragon Pass and its sequel, Nomad Gods...

 co-owned) and focusing on a low-magic setting inspired by pulp, sword and sorcery fiction.

Despite the game being finished and "at the printers", Hasbro

Hasbro

Hasbro is a multinational toy and boardgame company from the United States of America. It is one of the largest toy makers in the world. The corporate headquarters is located in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, United States...

, who had recently bought Avalon Hill, decided to shelve the game in mid-1998. RuneQuest: Slayers was destined to never see the light of day.

The rights to RuneQuest: Slayers, however, reverted back to the original creators, J.C. Connors and Christopher Lawrence

Christopher Lawrence

Christopher Lawrence or Chris Lawrence may refer to:*Chris Lawrence , Canadian professional ice hockey*Chris Lawrence , British racing driver...

. It was renamed Runeslayers and put into PDF form on the web for free.

External links

• RuneSlayers Runeslayers rpg in .pdf form, with some background information on the history of the game.