Quoting Kevin Johnston <runemaster93711@...>:

> OK thanks for letting me know. Still don't understand how you would
> let the best game system ever be destroyed by Avalon Hill. RQ2
> ruled.

It is a pretty long story, but the short version: I was a verfy naive
businessman.
Chaosium had reached the limits of growth without hiring marketing and
sales departments. We wanted wider distribution, had just sold our
board games to AH, so when they made an offer to publish RQ we
negotiated what appeared to be a good deal and set to to make a new
edition.
The AH RQ was a compilation of the house rules we had acquired for
several years of play. Except for the sorcery system, which was
largely untested.
Upon release of the first item, the RQ boxed set, AH began violating
the contract which led to a decline in the relationship that
eventually led to the rupture.
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Sincerely,
Greg Stafford

Issaries, Inc.
c/o Greg Stafford
1942 Channing Ave, #204
Berkeley, CA 94704 USA