Monthly Archives: February 2021

Grogzilla 2 on Kickstarter now!

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I’m back for ZineQuest 3, with Grogzilla issue 2 which funded twelve hours after its launch.  It has got a mini adventure for Crypts and Things, a short introductory article for Monkey the RPG, with the big feature being The Duck Crusade a one-shot adventure with premade characters for OpenQuest.

If you missed out on the OpenQuest 3 Kickstarter, there’s an opportunity to get hold of the book, either as a POD copy or the Signed and Sent print copy, plus the first supplement The OpenQuest Companion as an add-on.

The Kickstarter is only open for two weeks until March 10th.

 

Revisiting AD&D 1st Edition Players Handbook

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Shush I am reading AD&D 1st Edition Player’s Handbook Here is my impressions 

My copy (6th Printing 1980) for a 41-year-old book is in very good condition, as bombproof as I remember it from my teens, and smells kinda funny (sort of musky)

The text is very small and gets even smaller on tables. The book while epic in scope is a nice and tidy 128 pages long. It is sparsely illustrated, mainly filler pieces and a hand full of full pagers. The front page Gnome on the dice is my favourite with the fighter on p23

You can hire Assasins to kill people! There’s a table on p29. This one of the wacky almost stream of consciousness rulings made for character classes and their subclasses (remember them).

Talking of rules, subsystems rule the day. There’s a sort of consistent pattern that emerges from the text, but there’s a lot of noise and we are very very far from the unified rulings of D20 let alone 5th Ed. In fact, the book cuts out with a proper set of rules for combat.

I have an official AD&D Fighting Wheel (that has all the data for weapons) SO FIGHT ME ! 😀

OpenQuest 3rd Edition is coming soon!

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I’m in the final days/weeks of development of OpenQuest 3rd Edition, a task that began in earnest at the end of last summer and was kicked into the high gear due to the success of the 2020 Kickstarter last September.

I’ve just passed the art complete fully laid out layout draft to its editor (Paul Mitchener) and its proofreader, and I anticipate that the pdf will be available to backers in the next couple of weeks, which will allow me to do some form of pre-order. This will include the option to buy the printed version as well as the POD version, which will have endpapers, ribbons and colour plates of all the upcoming OQ 3 supplement covers by Jon Hodgson. 

Also the Quickstart rules and Adventure, the Lost Outpost has been passed over for proofing and checking and should be available shortly for people to get their first taste of the game, and its default setting the Empire of Gatan.

Here’s Jonny Gray’s cover for it

The Lost Outpost, art by Jonny Gray

Moreover at OpenQuestRPG.com and more of the moment frequent updates on Twitter using the #OpenQuestRpg tag.