A couple of months ago, I re-edited and brought up to date Paul Mitchener’s Ancient Roman OpenQuest adventure Non Semper Erit Aestas (or “It will not always be Summer”). Here’s what I learnt about Paul’s approach to doing Historical RPGs.
Continue readingOpenQuest Goes to the Conventions Part 2 Grogmeet
Grogmeet is a one day face to face con that is being run at Fanboy 3 in Manchester next Saturday. Signups are being handled by Warhorn, the online convention management website, and this is how Grogmeet’s selection of OpenQuest games looks like, it looks like VICTORY!!! To put this in
Continue readingOpenQuest goes to the Conventions, 2021 edition
Despite it being a cautious return to convention gaming, it being a mix of online and face to face gaming at a local convention, here’s the two OpenQuest games I’m running.
Continue readingThe Great Goblin Hunt
I’m having a slight return to convention going in the near future, and the need to write a punchy action-filled adventure for my regular OpenQuest Thursday night game led to the creation of this adventure.
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Graham Spearing was the editor of the first edition of OpenQuest, and there’s a lot of design choices that carry through even to OQ3 that came from discussions with him. He knows his onions when it comes to rules 🙂 I pulled off my relatively new OpenQuest (OQ) 3rd edition,
Continue readingOpenQuest Companion reaches First Draft
After taking a week off to spend time with my family, I was back at this morning. After a quick writing session, I’ve reached the first draft of the OpenQuest Companion. eta tentatively late August for the pdf, early September for print.
Continue readingOpenQuest 3rd Edition Changelog
I’ve updated the OpenQuest changelog, and posted as a page under the About page, so if you want to see what’s different from earlier editions of the game, just visit it. OpenQuest 3rd Edition Changelog.
Continue readingOpenQuest 3rd Edition now on General Release!
With the end of the Great OpenQuest Mailout to backers and pre-orders yesterday, I am proud to announce that OpenQuest 3rd Edition is now generally available from D101 Games web store in both pdf only and Print + Pdf bundle. OpenQuest 3rd Edition is available for sale at d101games.com I’m
Continue readingThe Great OpenQuest Mail-Out
At the time of writing, I’m about 2/3 the way of posting out all the signed and sent copies. I would be at 100% but the collection guy from the Royal Mail didn’t show up yesterday (again), but come Monday whoooooooooooshh! This is the current state of my hallway, which
Continue readingOpenQuest Signed and Sent has arrived!
It’s a sunny summer’s day here at D101 HQ and the printed signed and sent version of the book, which is going out to Kickstarter backers who backed it, has touched down.
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