Toadmaster
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I bought them a few months back - I hope they are the newer versions? They were stupid cheap.
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From practically the beginning BRP was divided into two camps, the heavier crunch Runequest, and the lighter crunch Call of Cthulhu. Most of the later Chaosium games followed the path of CoC. Magic World was derived from the Stormbringer / Elric games so falls closer to CoC than RQ. MRQ / Legend / Mythras started from RQ and added crunch, so Magic World and Mythras sit at opposite ends of the crunch spectrum. Of course the lovely thing with BRP is it all plays pretty well together, mix and match rules is pretty easy.
Personally I think shoving MW in a dark corner is a mistake by Chaosium. CoC is wildly popular despite the fairly unpopular Horror genre and MW provides a similar low crunch system for fantasy which is allegedly the most popular RPG genre.