\chapter{Introduction} I came to {\it RuneQuest} initially because I wanted to paly some tabletop role playing game (TTRPG), and have wanted to do so for quite some time. When Wizards of the Coast (WotC), decided to change their Open Game License (OGL) retroactively\footnote{See licenses in back matter}, I decided that I was going to get myself something that was not connected with the OGL, and stumbled across Chaosium, and RuneQuest (by Chaosium).