MIG III: The Meints Index to Glorantha (2022) is a labor of love by Rick Meints, president of Chaosium. It began as the work of an obsessive collector, long before his time at Chaosium; an attempt to catalog all the products released for the various editions of RuneQuest and HeroQuest, as well as non-game Glorantha publications and even stuff from other publishers and independent creators. It’s kinda like Vintage RPG, except just for RuneQuest. It’s exhaustive, and wonderful.

Don’t think of it like the old Overstreet Price Guides for comics and such, though. This is no mere book of lists. Rick provides commentary for just about everything, appraising all the products for both playability and collectability. Just about every cover is reproduced, along with select interiors, often in catalog-like tableau, an approach I find extremely appealing. There’s great quote on the back cover that is talking about the art specifically, but also applies to the entirety of RQ presented: “The varying levels of quality and creativity, or lack thereof, are evident over the span of the 40 years’ worth of products included.”

Two things make this even cooler. First, it becomes a history of RuneQuest, Glorantha and, to some extent, Chaosium, because it is often necessary to understand the business situations that produced these products to understand the products themselves in the greater context of the line. Second, Rick’s access to the Chaosium archives allows him to present all the products that never made it out of production, or were canceled or otherwise (nearly) lost to history. Both these things make the book invaluable.

It’s also hella fun, if you’re into RQ. Rick is a charming and personable guide, despite his protestations to the contrary on the back cover. I’d love to see books like this for Stormbringer, Pendragon and Call of Cthulhu. Hell, I’d love to write them!