Being released tomorrow:

OpenQuest Basics- Revised with Full Colour art!

A Message from Furthermost – A River of Heaven Scenario by John Ossoway.

The Clockwork Palace – Any OpenQuest Adventure Location, with new cult, magic, creatures, personalities and scenario seeds, by Paul Mitchener.

Watch this space for more details.

The Clockwork Palace by Paul Mitchener
At the edge of the city stands the Clockwork Palace, a huge building made not of stone but of brass. Over a mile long, it is an intricate mechanism of clocks, levers, hydraulics, and only the clockwork god knows what else.
The uses of some parts of the mechanism are obvious. Clocks are everywhere within the palace, mechanical men guard the automatic doors, and an orrery (a mechanical model of the planetary system) dominates the main entrance lobby.

But even those who live there, the Clockmakers, know few of the Palace’s ancient secrets. Nor do they know its original function. Was it a temple to a mechanical god? Was it itself a god? Did the Clockmakers once build the Palace, or did they move there, before even their accurate records began?

This short supplement for OpenQuest details the Clockwork Palace, its mechanical magic, the Clockmakers, and half a dozen adventure outlines linked to the palace.
You can use it in any OpenQuest fantasy game where such a part mechanical, part magical wonder fits in.

A Message from Furthermost by John Ossoway
Praise Kane the First of Us, Praise the Guilds.

Your team has been assembled by Father Francisco of Special Circumstances.
The Guild Council has ordered a live team to investigate the loss of contact with the Guildship Tannhäuser. No one has dared attack a Guild Stepship in centuries. Special Circumstances are taking no chances.
You go in, you establish what has happened, you recover the crew and as much data as possible. You’ll be operating on your own and there will be no reinforcements.
Business as usual.

A Message from Furthermost is an adventure for River of Heaven Science Fiction Roleplaying Game. It is self-contained, and comes with six pregenerated characters if you want to pick it up and play. It can also easily dropped into an existing campaign.

The Message from Furthermost, cover by Peter Frain

A very tentative starting contents list for this work in progress collection of rules and gamey bits 😉

OpenQuest Kung Fu – how to use OQ Battle Magic to model chinese kung fu specifically and martial arts in general.

One Magic System – A conversion of the existing three magic system, into a simplified streamlined system which does not use magic points or have variable spells.

Quick Quest – how I run OpenQuest on the hoof at my gaming table.

Goons – the simplifed system for non-player characters, probably cleaned up and expanded from the article I posted here.

Right that’s my lunch break over, back to Crypts & Things 😉

This was a pleasant surprise present for me the other day. Kristian Richards who is the author/artist/layout guy of the rather splendid Age of Shadow RPG, which is based of the OpenQuest SRD, sent me a copy of his rather smart A5 Fanzine ‘Neath the Shadow’ for Age of Shadow. Its a nice light read, with a couple of detailed encounters, a magic item and some quick rules for Age of Shadow. Its black and white through out with art mainly being the rather speliendid maps that Kristian produces (check out his Little Book of Dungeons book).  I’ve got one of the hand made copies, with its nice pale blue card cover lovingly hand made by Kristian himself, the POD version available via lulu has a lovely colour cover.

I’m a big fan of Age of Shadow. Kristian took the OQ SRD and built a nice little RPG for some Silmarillion style fantasy action, so I’m pleased to see that its getting even a little bit of additional support 🙂

Neath the Shadow Zine by Kristian Richards

Neath the Shadow Fanzine
Crooked Staff Procutions blog
Age of Shadow RPG

Just in case you are worried that OpenQuest is being criminally neglected, art has started to flow in for OpenQuest Adventures and work steadily continues on the Online version of the OpenQuest SRD.  I looking to get both finished by the end of this month.

Here’s the Bone King by Simon Bray which graces the Deep in the Hole adventure.