by Newt | Jan 29, 2024 | Fantastic Odysseys, Publishing
OpenQuest 3rd Edition is getting along nicely three years after its initial release. With a range of supplements (such as OpenQuest Companion and OpenQuest Dungeons) gradually emerging as support. This website has a decent amount of traffic, as does the SRD in both...
by Newt | Apr 15, 2023 | OQ 3 Development, OQ SRD, Publishing, Release
I received the 2nd Printing of OpenQuest this morning from the printers. This, as well as fixing a small number of typos and errors that have come to light since the initial release back in 2021, also sees the removal of the now redundant OGL. This finalises...
by Newt | Mar 14, 2023 | Publishing, SimpleQuest
Not as big as The Great OpenQuest Mailout of 2021, which was something like 200+ books, but ten boxes of the perfectly formed Signed and Sent version of SimpleQuest appeared a week early in my hallway last Friday. This slideshow requires JavaScript. Now girding my...
by Newt | Mar 8, 2023 | OpenQuest Fantasy, Publishing, SimpleQuest
So SimpleQuest, my concise cut-down version of OpenQuest, is ready to go live at drivethrurpg.com as print-on-demand/pdf and is in the process of getting a nice proper shiny print version, with endpapers, ribbons, nicely sewn papers etc. Once backers have their...
by Newt | Jan 11, 2023 | OQ SRD, Publishing
OpenQuest, which SimpleQuest is based on, currently uses OGL version 1.0a to provide a license for 3rd party developers to use it for their books. Games such as Age of Shadow (Crooked Staff Publishing), Clockwork and Chivalry (Cakebread and Walton) and Jackals (Osprey...
by Newt | Mar 7, 2022 | Publishing
OpenQuest 3rd edition has been a big success. I want to continue to support the game, past this year’s road map of releases, so it’s time to invite budding OpenQuest writers to contribute. We’ve got history with this. The Savage North was co-written...