First layout draft has gone to proof and final check.
Expect a preorder later this week/early next (details to follow) 🙂
The Dark God of Left is pleased 😀
First layout draft has gone to proof and final check.
Expect a preorder later this week/early next (details to follow) 🙂
The Dark God of Left is pleased 😀
Some of my fellow countrymen still harbour ill-will to our French , but I’ve always had a soft-spot to our neighbours across the channel. And it turns out that the French have a soft-spot for OpenQuest too, with not one but two games based off the OQ SRD 🙂
If you want a copy of the OpenQuest core rules in French, a team from the Le Scriptorum have made your wish come true!
My thanks go out to the following people involved:
Translation : Arasmo, Mugen, Kurgan
Layout : Etory
There’s also Alamander, which is a complete game with gorgeous art and layout based of OQ with bits of GORE and MRQ1 added.
Back in Feb I wrote a charming little adventure for OpenQuest, called the ‘Road to Hell’. Spurred on by the nastiness that I was creating at the time for Crypts and Things and a huge guilt that I had nothing lined up on the OpenQuest front, I sat down and hammered RtH out.
Currently its a 10 page adventure, a small viscous thing that is designed as a Dark Fantasy adventure, to showcase the Major Mental Damage rules and how to do horror in D100 fantasy. Quite simply play starts with the group on a road to nowhere in the middle of an idyllic countryside, something is spotted off the roadside and they find themselves literally sucked into a small Hell, inspired by the stomach churning blood soaked horror of Clive Barker. Also a classic RQ monster has found its home there and to it is literally Heaven. Oh and I managed to get a reference in to one of my favourite bands, Killing Joke, so all is good on the pop-culture reference stakes too 😉
In playtesting with my home group a couple of weekends ago, the 4 hour game racked up one heart attack, one near death mauling and one death, but for the grace of spending a Hero Point (so for all you hard-core D100 players who refuse to use Hero Points, that would be new character being rolled in your game 😉 ). They beat the scenario eventually, by bringing the ‘gruesome’ and by being even more devious and depraved than the evil inhabitants of the hell, but it was a challenge even for their twisted little minds. One of my player’s Guy said that a group that played it ‘straight’ would get mauled, and I have to agree. While I’m not a fan or creator of Killer Dungeons, I like my adventures to be challenging and push the players. This adventure with its simple premise and twist, hits that for me. Oh and I gave them veteran level characters, best skills 85-100 and 9 pts Magic, and it was still tough 🙂
I’m running it again at Furnace Convention in a couple of weeks time. Art has already been commissioned, so some time before Xmas it will get pdf release.
I’ve had a couple of folk ask me if the lovely character sheet that Andrew Farman did for OpenQuest final was available for download.
I had a quiet moment last night and uploaded the character sheet.
Its now in the downloads section, listed as “OpenQuest character sheet v2 ”
I’m kinda getting the vibe that you guys are here for the bone crunching Fantasy that OpenQuest and Crypts and Things, but what do you guys think about old School Sci-fi?
Answer the following poll, add any comments below.
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Ok so the cover I’ve been showing for Crypts & Things has merely been a placeholder.
Here’s the real deal, drawn by the very talented Jon Hodgson
Bonus points if you can nail who the inspiration behind the axe wielding barbarian is (and no its not a certain Mr Conan 😉 ).