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Chaosium is bringing back the ElfQuest roleplaying game. Today, Chaosium announced that it would produce a “classic reissue” of ElfQuest: The Official Roleplaying Game, which was originally released in 1984. The game is an official adaptation of the popular fantasy indie comic created by Wendy and Richard Pini. A Kickstarter for the RPG will launch in October 2024, with plans to publish the game in its original box edition format, with later supplements included. The Kickstarter will help fund new printings of all the 1984 publications.
ElfQuest is a culturally significant comic first published in 1978. The Pinis chose to self-publish the original series, although it was later reprinted by Marvel and DC, with Dark Horse publishing a follow-up series called The Final Quest. ElfQuest was one of the first “indie” comic successes, bridging the divide between the underground comics movement and the later explosion of indie comics during the 1980s and 1990s.
The ElfQuest TTRPG uses Chaosium’s Basic Roleplaying System and was originally written by Steve Perrin, Sandy Petersen, and Yurek Chodak. Chaosium president Rick Meints will lead the Chaosium team working on the new reprint, with Meints also having led the Call of Cthulhu Classic and RuneQuest Classic reprints. The Pinis will work with Chaosium on the new ElfQuest RPG‘s development and presentation.
