With five days to go, we are currently funding the next stretch goal OpenQuest Dungeons.
“Are you going to do an OpenQuest conversion of D&D?” is a question I get asked a lot. I’m like “Nah if I want to go play D&D, I’ll play D&D!” OpenQuest has an intrinsically different style of play, which I hope I get across in the main rulebook. But I understand why people ask because OQ got picked up early by the OSR blogs and I do have people coming from D&D pick up OQ as a less complicated D100 game. Also back in my teenage years, I remember us coming straight from D&D and playing a handful of sessions of D100 Fantasy just like we did before we realised it played differently.
So, with this in mind, here’s the content’s of the book.
D100 Dungeons. A short article that explains how dungeons and dungeon exploration works in OpenQuest. How small is deadly, and everything has a meaning and a story behind it. It advises the Referee on how to leverage the OQ skill test system to make the player’s feel that they are trapped underground and with danger all around them. It also explains how to use the usual play-style of dungeoneering to transition players coming from D&D into the possibilities of OpenQuest.
The Eastern Imperial Borderlands. I’ll be introducing this mini-setting in the Quickstart adventure that I’m currently writing for release after the end of the campaign (The Whispering Warrior). This gazetteer will expand on the information given there, explaining the opportunities amongst the ancient ruins that are found in this area.
The Village of Spearing. A base village for the characters that details a settlement full of ex-adventurers who provide services, goods and training.
Deep in the Hole. A Quest, the lord of Spearing’s son has gone missing down a local cavern system known as the Hole. A reward is posted for his safe return
Both .of the above have previously appeared in the out of print OpenQuest Adventures supplement. They will be getting a full revision and rewrite.
The next two Quests are entirely new material.
Snake Bite Pass. Another Quest this time entirely focused on an adventure location, the rocky mountain pass of the title and its living inhabitants all worshipers in various forms of the Serpent Cult (which is detailed).
Fools Rush. Suposbly a dead and abandoned dungeon, but since it was once a shrine to the Trickster god known only as The Fool, who knows what surprises it may hold.
The adventurers may go there looking for a trove of gold left by the Fool’s priests, but what they find instead is entirely unexpected.
To help this fund faster, I’m adding another special one of a kind unique Backer Level, which if it funds will see an additional dungeon added to the book.
Mistress/Master of Dungeons (£300)
This is a special one of a kind pledge level that helps to fund OpenQuest Dungeons and adds an extra adventure into the book.
- All the OQ patron rewards plus the following:
- a hardcover of OpenQuest Dungeons signed, sent and dedicated to you.
- drafts of work in progress and option to feedback to authors as the draft develops.
- copy of each version of OQ – 1st, 2nd, Refreshed, + all the OpenQuest Classics, signed and sent to you.
I’m also opening up ten more OpenQuest Patron spaces (at £100) since they have proven to be popular and sold out much quicker than I expected.
So far the campaign has already funded the following books:
- The Main rulebook
- The Saga of the Savage North
- The Clockwork Palace
- The Book of Duck (working title)
- The OpenQuest Companion
So for as little as £10 (pdf/POD) you get all five books in pdf with the option to get in Print on Demand at cost + p&p.