RuneScape

Introduction

Introducing the Best New RuneScape Video Creator award! This prestigious accolade recognizes the fresh talent that emerged in the past year. Who will be the one to watch? The nominees include Chevalric, Justbackroundnoise, Waydot, and Rheyo RS. These rising stars have already made a splash in the gaming community with their captivating videos. But let's not forget the veterans in the Best RuneScape Video Creator category. These content creators have been delivering top-tier RuneScape content for years. Who will earn your vote? The nominees include Protoxx, Rheyo RS, Init Yeah, and The RS Guy. With their wealth of experience, they continue to captivate audiences with their exceptional videos. And of course, we can't overlook the Best RuneScape Video category. These nominees have been pushing the boundaries of content creation, leaving us in awe. Who will you vote for? The competition is fierce, and the possibilities are endless. Moving on to the streaming world, we have the Best New RuneScape Streamer award. These newcomers have already made an impressive mark in the streaming community. The nominees include Waydot, Rheyo RS, RsStormy, and imxcrystal. Their dedication and talent have propelled them to success in a short span of time. But let's not forget the experienced streamers in the Best RuneScape Streamer category. These streamers have been sharing the magic of RuneScape for years. Who will you choose? The nominees include Maikeru, Sick_Nerd, The RS Guy, and Init Yeah. Their passion for the game and their ability to entertain and engage viewers make them worthy contenders. Last but not least, we have the Best New RuneScape Artist award. These rising stars are ones to watch out for in the art community. The nominees include Yarebear, Spriggan, Evergreen, and Elej. Their artistic talents have already caught the attention of many, and now it's time to cast your vote. And let's not forget the Best RuneScape Artist category. These artists consistently produce works of absolute beauty. Let's celebrate their efforts and show them our appreciation. The nominees include SuizzyOwl, Nychannel, Elej, and Evergreen. Their creativity and skill deserve recognition. So, gaming enthusiasts, it's time to cast your votes and support your favorite creators, streamers, and artists in the RuneScape community. Let's celebrate their talent and dedication to the game we all love.

BEST NEW RUNESCAPE VIDEO CREATOR

This award is for fresh new creators who started making videos in the past year! Who’s your one to watch? The nominees are:

Chevalric
Justbackroundnoise
Waydot
Rheyo RS

BEST RUNESCAPE VIDEO CREATOR

And now for the old guard! These video veterans have been creating top-tier RuneScape content for years – but which one will get your vote? The nominees are:

Protoxx
Rheyo RS
Init Yeah
The RS Guy

BEST RUNESCAPE VIDEO

As always, our video nominees have been pushing the boundaries of content creation – who will you vote for?

BEST NEW RUNESCAPE STREAMER

It takes time and effort to stream your way to success, but these newcomers are off to a very impressive start! The nominees are:

Waydot
Rheyo RS
RsStormy
imxcrystal

BEST RUNESCAPE STREAMER

A category for experienced streamers who continue to share the magic of RuneScape – who gets your vote?! The nominees are:

Maikeru
Sick_Nerd
The RS Guy
Init Yeah

BEST NEW RUNESCAPE ARTIST

These rising stars are ones to look out for but which one will get your vote? The nominees are:

Yarebear
Spriggan
Evergreen
Elej

BEST RUNESCAPE ARTIST

Each year these artists produce wonderful works of absolute beauty , so let's celebrate their efforts and cast some votes! The nominees are:

SuizzyOwl
Nychannel
Elej
Evergreen

BEST RUNESCAPE ARTISTIC CREATION

Every one of these magnificent creations captures something special – but only one can receive the Golden Gnome! The nominees are:

BEST RUNESCAPE COSPLAY CREATION

These maestro's of the crafting world have absolutely blown us away with their amazing Cosplays The nominees are:

Nature's Sentinel by Craycritter

Tetsu Armour by Atrox

We'd like to say a enormous thanks to everyone who cast their vote, and an equally large congratulations to all of our brilliant finalists!

TERMS & CONDITIONS

WHAT'S NEXT?

All that's left to do now is vote for the winners! You can cast your vote on this page: rs.game/GG12-Finals at any time until midnight on March 13th. The awards ceremony itself will take place on March 24th in a spectacular livestream extravaganza!

FIRST QUEST OF THE SEASON: MURDER ON THE BORDER

Now you’ve established the foundations of Fort Forinthry, it's time for the next chapter in our season! The first quest arrives next week, with a fun whodunnit twist and real benefits for your Cooking skills. Here’s what’s on the menu in Murder on the Border when it arrives on March 20th:

Meet a collection of eccentric characters and solve a fun murder mystery with classic quest skills!
Add a lavish kitchen to your Fort to entertain party guests!
Utilise the all-new Mystery Journal interface to figure out what’s going on!
Complete the quest to expand your Fort with more awesome upgrades!

FOUL PLAY AT FORT FORINTHRY!

With the construction complete at Fort Forinthry, the King wants to celebrate. And what the king wants, the king gets! He requests (let’s be honest, demands) that you host a lavish banquet for the Misthalin royal family and select nobility. Ever the people-pleaser, you are more than happy to oblige - but you’re not the only one with plans for the evening ahead. The festivities take a shocking turn when one of your guests is found murdered! Now it’s up to you and your inquisitive butler Aster to catch the culprit. It's time to lock the gates, break out your detective kit and interrogate the party guests. One of them is not what they seem…

BUT WHO COULD HAVE DUNNIT?

That's the question on everyone's mind - and time is ticking! Needless to say, tensions are running high and the Misthalin leaders rarely see eye to eye at the best of times. This is political - as well as personal - dynamite. It’s time to meet a whole host of intriguing and potentially deadly characters and start pointing the finger of blame! Here’s who’s in attendance: You’ll have to work with all of the guests to identify the culprit, but thankfully you also have the new Mystery Journal interface to help your investigation along…

	King Roald Remanis III (He/Him) The King of Misthalin. He is reserved, diplomatic and mild mannered - which can lead to his vassals and the diplomats of other nations walking over him.		Queen Ellamaria (She/Her) The Queen of Misthalin. Ellamaria was born a commoner, and was a renowned adventurer before marrying Roald. She is brash and has little patience for incompetence and bureaucracy; but she is good at getting things done.
	Simon Bullace (He/Him) A novice alchemist under the service of King Roald, currently is employed as the royal wine taster. He is anxious, intelligent and more than a little bitter about his current station.		Aster Dunnet (They/Them) Aster is the steward of Fort Forinthry and manager of the townhall. They are professional, approachable and a huge fan of novels, detective stories and murder mysteries...
	Bianca Dunnet (She/Her) Aster's sister and a renowned chef, Bianca has worked for several prominent figures before joining the royal household. She is quiet and softly spoken, but her culinary marvels are often sabotaged by her extreme clumsiness!		Duke Cole Augustus Hoarse (He/Him) The Duke of Edgeville. He is abrasive, perpetually grumpy and the bane of every noble in Misthalin. You'd be hard-pressed to find someone who doesn't want him... dealt with.
	Lord Rodney Midas (He/Him/They) A flamboyant socialite, currently engaged to Duke Hoarse. His choice in attire is almost as colorful as his tales of his previous spouses... all of whom appear to have met a suspiciously gruesome end.		Princess Duke Hoarse's beloved pet spaniel. While she may appear to be the goodest of girls, when you look deeper into her butter-wouldn't-melt expression, you can't help but speculate what wicked deeds she may be capable of...
	Duchess Alba Hyett (She/Her) A retired knight who served Roald II, the king's father. She was granted the Duchy of Lumford by King Roald III, ostensibly for her years of service to the kingdom. She is stoic, asocial, and appears to hold a grudge against the royal family.		Lady Iris Ruthven (She/Her) The flower of Lumbridge and Duke Horacio's cousin, attending the banquet on his behalf. She is outgoing and always has gossip to share about the Misthalinian nobility - though she is not the sharpest knife in the drawer.

You’ll have to work with all of the guests to identify the culprit, but thankfully you also have the new Mystery Journal interface to help your investigation along…

Gather clues from around the Fort, link them to the different characters and view character profiles to solve the mystery before the killer strikes again!

WHAT'S IN IT FOR ME?

It won’t just be the suspects you’ll be grilling… as the proprietor of the Fort you'll be able to make extended use of the newest building, the Kitchen, which comes stocked and ready to use! Your new culinary skills mean you’ll avoid burning food and never fail at chopping up cobwebbed barriers - plus, working the kitchen increases your Cooking XP. This bonus stacks with portables and is available to Ironman players too! You’ll also have access to the Cooking Supplies Shop and Soup Station, allowing you to make soups from your Player-Owned Port. There’s even a handy Bank next to the stove!

Building	Tier 1	Tier 2	Tier3
Kitchen	Access to the Kitchen including a Cooking Range, Sink and Bank. Cutting cobweb barriers will never fail again.	3% reduced chance to burn food. Access to the Cooking Shop Supplies directly from the Kitchen.	5% increased Cooking XP while cooking in the Kitchen. Access to a Soup Station for creating Port Soups.

And of course, completing the quest will please the King - who will naturally reimburse you with a Quest Point and XP Lamps!

THE COMMUNITY HITLIST

The Community Hitlist is a development project - around the size of a usual Ninja Strike - where we want to address the most burning tweaks and bug fixes in the community to get into the game as soon as possible. We're asking any interested players to submit their suggestions so we can gather up the most popular proposals and address them in a dedicated update in the next few months.

WHAT KIND OF THINGS CAN GO INTO THE HITLIST

As we mentioned, this Community Hitlist Update will be similar in scale to a Strike - that means there are certain areas we are focusing on that we can develop in a fairly timely fashion alongside all the other content we're making for RuneScape. This means your suggestions should be one of the following:

Bugs you would most like to see addressed
Tweaks to existing content in the game today
Issues that break you out of your game experience

WHAT CAN'T WE DO IN THE HITLIST

Just to offer a bit of additional guidance, we want to be clear on things we can't achieve in this format - at least for this version of it! - in an effort to get a Strike size update out in the next few months.

New content or additions to the game
Graphical updates or reworks (some of these are coming from Game Jam already - yes that means Karamja!)
Extensive overhauls of elements of the game, such as new training methods or skill reworks

HOW CAN I SUBMIT A SUGGESTION?

To ensure everyone can get involved without the need to have an account on a specific platform, we've set up an official survey to capture your ideas. This is a quickfire survey that lets you voice your suggestions, along with giving us an understanding of who you are as a player so we can balance the many (many!) suggestions we expect to receive to take all players into account.

CLICK HERE TO SUBMIT YOUR SUGGESTIONS IN OUR SURVEY!

WHAT HAPPENS NEXT?

We'll be closing the survey on Monday at 11:59pm Game Time. In the week following, we'll begin combing through your feedback to find the most popular suggestions and begin discussions at the studio on what's feasible for the dedicated update in the next few months. Depending on the scale of suggestions, or if we have a lot of competing popular requests, we may post another article with a survey to ask players to stat rank the top suggestions to guide our prioritization. Either way, we'll be following up once this process is fully completed to be open about what we're working on and let you know any popular suggestions that can't make it into this update - whether that's the timeline or the suggestions being something that warrants more discussion. From there, we'll begin development. While we are focusing on this Strike sized update, we won't necessarily limit addressing things from the Hitlist to one Strike sized update - some bugs or tweaks may come in with a weekly update, others may follow in another Community Hitlist Update if it makes sense to do one. If it's something we feel could benefit from further feedback, we may even spark up a conversation or two to discuss them further while we're still in the development stage. In case you haven't caught them, we've also got another couple of active discussions that we'd love your feedback on.

Mod Sponge is working on proposed FSOA / Animate Dead changes. Head here for a full rundown of the proposal, why we feel the changes need to be made and then drop your perspective in the Reddit thread.
Mod Abe has been working on community feedback around future Comp Cape changes. Head here for all the details and let us know your feedback in the Reddit thread comments.

VIDEO AWARDS

These creative folks are masters of their craft, earning themselves a prestigious award for their amazing videos:

- Best New RuneScape Video Creator: Waydot
- Best RuneScape Video Creator: Protoxx
- Best RuneScape Video: This 20-year-old MMO is finally good again by J1mmy

STREAMING AWARDS

Entertaining and insightful, these creators have been your streaming superstars this year:

Best New RuneScape Streamer: Waydot
Best RuneScape Streamer: Sick_Nerd

ART AWARDS

These artists have taken their chosen medium to new heights! Congratulations to:

- Best New RuneScape Artist: Evergreen
- Best RuneScape Artist: Nychannel
- Best RuneScape Artistic Creation: A Lofi RuneScape Moment by Suizzy