We are in the final week of the campaign, and just about to hit the OpenQuest Companion stretch goal – which will present a selection of extra and alternative rules for the game in a single book.

As a thank you to the backers who have stuck with the campaign during its slow period (or the slump as us publishers call it), they will now all be getting a Duck based adventure with six pre-generated characters called Angry Ducks. This has now been upgraded to a full book, with the working title of The Book of Duck, which has been upgraded by the generosity of a backer who within minutes of me posting the following update pledged at the special or of a kind Mistress/Master of Ducks level.

• Read the full update about this here.

Also related to this sudden bout of Duck craziness is this post on openquestrpg.com, which explains why I’m so captivated by Ducks as a non-human race.

• Ducks, why?

In short the campaign has funded the following books.

• The Main rulebook
• The Saga of the Savage North
• The Clockwork Palace
• The Book of Duck (working title)

and we are but a short distance from funding the OpenQuest Companion.

Thank you so much 🙂

Here it is the first two chapters of OpenQuest 3rd Edition as a Preview Pdf.

• Openquest 3rd Edition Preview

Note this is an unedited work in progress and will change before final publication.

P.S Kickstarter opens tomorrow, 1st September.

• OpenQuest 3rd Edtion Kickstarter

Just a quick post from me. The Kickstarter for OpenQuest 3rd Edition opens on Tuesday 1st September.

• OpenQuest 3rd Edition page.

If you are viewing this before the Kickstarter starts it will take you to a pre-launch page that allows you to sign up for email notification of when the campaign opens.

For more information about the game, including posts about what is new and changed to this edition visit the following website.

• openquestrpg.com

If you liked the idea of Crypts and Things, but yearn for the simpler days fo 1st edition when the book only had the four basic character classes (Barbarian/Fighter/Thief and Sorcerer) and Zarth was just an example setting?  Or perhaps you are after a nice concise Swords and Sorcery game that use the Black Hack as rules base?

Then Swords Against the Shroud is now available for you in pdf and preorder in print from the D101 Games Web store.

• Get Swords Against the Shroud via the D101 Games Web Store

It comes in two versions.

The Standard softcover with a black and white cover by John Ossoway

Swords Against the Shroud standard cover by John Ossoway

and a limited edition colour cover hardback with the 1st Edition cover by Jon Hodgson.

Swords Against the Shroud limited edition cover by Jon Hodgson

Just putting the final touches on Swords Against the Shroud (a Black Hack version of Crypts and Things) – that will go out to From the Shroud #2 Kickstarter backers (either today or tomorrow), & then be available to order pdf/preorder print via D101 Games website shortly after 🙂

This is Crypts and Things rebuilt using The Black Hack 2nd Edition as a base, instead of Swords and Wizardry.  It’s similar in scope to C&T 1st Edition. It only has the four core classes: Barbarian, Fighter, Theif and Sorcerer, the introductory guide to Zarth, a small selection of the creatures in the full bestiary (but all the Swords and Sorcery essentials) + the adventure The Halls of Nizar-Thun. Systems for Corruption and Sanity are based on The Black Hack. All in all, it comes in at 86 A5 pages versus 145 pages of C&T 1st ed which was US Trade (8″ x 11″).

It was mainly an experiment on my part, funded by From the Shroud #2 Kickstarter. If you’ve not picked it up as a stretch goal as part of that campaign, it’s worth your time if you want a short and concise version of the game and you are a fan of The Black Hack.

The upcoming Lost Lands of Grungamesh, will have stats for both C&T and Swords Against the Shroud.

Now rampaging on general release, is the thirty-foot tall three-headed monster lizard called Grogzilla. Originally put together to honour Grogmeet 2019 ( a meet up of old school gamers run by the Grogsquad of Grogpod fame) it was enhanced during Kickstarter’s ZineQuest 2 which brought it to a wider audience.

• Read more about the Making of Grogzilla

This being a review of a bit of everything that D101 does, both present and upcoming, there’s a fair bit of fantasy in it. The beast of the zine in OpenQuest and C&T stats, five more fiends for Crypts and Things, a preview of what I’m going to be doing for Mythras, a follow up the scenario to the OSR Road to Hell.

Its available as cheap as chips pdf only (£3) and I’ve a limited number of print copies from the print run for the backers (£5).

• Grogzilla #1 at the D101 Webstore.