RuneHQ A Tribute and Farewell
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A Tribute and Farewell

In Loving Memory

Celebrating 23 years of RuneHQ history
and the community that made it special.

More than a website: a home for adventurers, a library of shared knowledge, and friendships that reached far beyond the game.

A Tribute To

Deb & Gene

The hearts behind RuneHQ

Deb and Gene helped shape RuneHQ into a place where adventurers could learn, share, and belong. We honor their vision, dedication, kindness, and generosity, and the community built around those values.

Deb and Gene seated together, smiling at the camera.
Deb & Gene

“More than a website, RuneHQ was a home—and at its heart were two extraordinary people.”

Without Deb and Gene here to help us carry RuneHQ forward, we have made the difficult decision to discontinue the RuneHQ website at the end of 2026.

A Remarkable Journey, A Lasting Legacy

23 Years of RuneHQ

From humble beginnings to a trusted home for guides and friendships, these milestones remember the chapters that shaped RuneHQ.

  1. Humble Beginnings

    RuneHQ begins as a small idea built to help fellow adventurers.

  2. A Growing Community

    Players gather around shared knowledge, questions, and friendship.

  3. Guides & Resources

    Guides, tools, and resources support countless journeys.

  4. Platinum Recognition

    On 9 April, Jagex names RuneHQ one of the Platinum-level sites in its relaunched Fansite Support Programme.

  5. Friends for Life

    What began as a website grows into a community that cares.

  6. Through the Years

    The community adapts, supports one another, and stays connected.

  7. A Lasting Legacy

    More than two decades of memories, friendships, and shared adventures.

  8. The Final Chapter

    After 23 years, RuneHQ reaches its final chapter as the website prepares to close.

Memories from Across the Community

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Thanks for all the help over the years helped me since i was a kid to do quests etc and to use the forums to buy and sell stuff thank you for the memorys.

Millar7

User since 2004

As a kid, that was the place i chose yo help my in my journey, handheld me through quests i could never completed without a companion like RuneHQ.

Thanks for all the help when i was a kid. I vividly remember using the guide to complete the vampyre questline, with the laberintic city.

Farewell, partner.

Ryu Kurai

Visitor

I never would have seen lletya without you.

Charles C

Visitor, quester

Thank you for supporting my journey from 2004 to 2013, you will never be forgotten.

Riccow

Thank you for all the great memories that were only possible through rune HQ. 12 year old me thanks you from the bottom of his heart.

Lafra3

RIP

Tree

Visitor

Thank you. While I never truly knew who created RuneHQ or the people who dedicated their time to maintaining it, I’m realizing now just how much I took something so special for granted.

Growing up playing RuneScape, RuneHQ was a huge part of my childhood. It was always there when I got stuck on a quest, needed guidance, or wanted to discover something new. I never thought about the people behind it. I just assumed it would always be there.

Now, knowing those people are gone and facing the possibility of losing RuneHQ itself, memories I didn’t even realize I still had are flooding back. It’s a strange kind of grief, realizing something you thought was just a website was actually woven into some of the happiest years of your life.

I wish I had appreciated it more. Not just the website, but the countless hours of dedication from people who helped shape the childhoods of players like me, without ever expecting anything in return.

To everyone who made RuneHQ possible, thank you. You may never have known my name, but you were part of my life in ways I never fully understood until now.

It’s heartbreaking how we sometimes don’t recognize the value of something until we’re faced with losing it. RuneHQ wasn’t just a resource for a game. It was a piece of growing up, and one I’ll carry with me forever.

Rest in peace, and thank you for the memories.

Nick

A kid raised on RuneHQ.

Thank you so much for guiding 8 year old me through so many quests. I'm 27 now and i'll never forget about runeHQ. <3

Endemas/Q

long time user

Thank you for everything. When I was in high school, I would get onto RuneHQ in the computer lab to stayed connected to RuneScape when I couldn’t play the actual game on school servers. It is a place that brings memories of a simpler time and a place that I fondly remember 20 years later.

Amir

Visitor

thanks to the founders and all contributors involved. o7

Vlad Bot

Visitor

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A Farewell to Our Community

Thank You

To our visitors, members, guide writers, donors, moderators, staff, and friends: thank you for every question answered, every guide improved, every discussion shared, and every friendship formed.

RuneHQ was more than a website. It was a community, and that was always because of you.

Although the site is closing, the RuneHQ Discord and clan will continue, giving the community a place to stay connected and carry on the friendships built here.

It's not goodbye, just a new chapter.

The Community Continues

Stay Connected

While this website chapter is closing, the RuneHQ community continues on.

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