A slice of 1980s tabletop history is heading back to shelves. Chaosium has confirmed that the ElfQuest Classic Deluxe Boxed Set, a fully remastered revival of the 1984 roleplaying game, will hit retail this July after a runaway crowdfunding campaign.
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Start organising for freeElfQuest began life as a comic by Wendy and Richard Pini in 1978, following the Wolfriders, a tribe of elves in the World of Two Moons. It was one of the first comics to treat elves and magical beings with real emotional weight, and it earned a devoted following. The roleplaying game arrived in 1984 and has been near-impossible to find at a sensible price ever since.
This new edition runs on Chaosium's Basic Roleplaying system, the same engine behind Call of Cthulhu, so anyone who has rolled dice for a Cthulhu investigator will feel at home. The box is generously stuffed: an 80-page Elfbook, a 40-page Worldbook with three ready-to-run scenarios, a three-panel gamemaster screen with classic colour comic art, a previously unpublished world map, full-colour standees, and a ten-piece dice set. Several of those extras, including the GM screen the original never had, came from stretch goals.
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See how it worksThe appetite was clear when the Kickstarter, led by Chaosium president Rick Meints, hit its funding goal in under ten minutes and rocketed past 100,000 dollars within half a day.
If your table fancies a fantasy setting with more heart than the usual dungeon fare, this is a tidy way in. It is also the kind of nostalgic box that begs to be played with friends, so find a group and head back to the World of Two Moons.
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