A short minor-magical items list for OpenQuest over at Iain Murray’s The Rune Under Water blog

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Honestly I didn’t pay this chap to write this review 🙂

OpenQuest Review at Grognardia

If you are unfamiliar Grognardia is one of the central focuses of the D&D Old School Renaissance movement – one that is increasingly taking OQ to its bossum

A quick post to say thank you for the kind comments about OpenQuest, coming off the back of me saying I was considering giving it up at the beginning of the year.  Its given me a fresh impetus with the game and taken me off in some interesting directions.  I’ve now got a small pile of stuff I want to work on, and its just a matter of choosing which projects to work on first 🙂

More mulling over, and some firm writing to be done before I announce anything coming out of this 🙂

Well I’m busy fighting off the winter blues. The tail end of my illness just before xmas ( I had a serious skin infection which had me laid off for a couple of weeks ) is still lingering, plus we have wonderful days like yesterday where the sun briefly shone through thick mist!  So safe to say my mood is on the side of murderous on most days, which is means the game is afoot to bring cheer to my strained psyche on a daily basis.  Between my own positive thinking and the innate cheer of my family I’m more than winning 🙂

One source of cheer to me is that my muse for OpenQuest has returned. I think I scared it away with big unrealistic plans post release of the book, and the seemingly never ending typo hunt end of 2009 that lasted until July’s Final edition last year. At the beginning of this year I was of the opinion that I was going to let it quietly die off and move onto other projects and let other people carry the torch.  I said as much to a publisher friend and my muse must have heard me. The other day it came back with a vengence and I’ve been quite happily writing an adventure (which is what I like doing best alongside light supporting backgrounds) for OpenQuest with numerous ideas for more! Safe to say you’ll see more Adventure packs, either as quick straight to PDF mini-releases or shorter Print books, from me.

So that’s me getting over myself.

Meanwhile author Nathan Baron is putting on the finishing touches of Empires Rising.

Co-Authors Simon Bray and Paul Mitchener have just submitted the text for their sandbox adventure setting “Here Be Dragons”. If you have found memories of Griffin Mountain, this will press your buttons 🙂

Here’s the map of the setting by Simon.

Hi all,

Just got notification that there is 15% off Life and Death at Lulu.com until 15th January, use the code RESOLUTION305

http://www.lulu.com/product/13699506?cid=121810

Enjoy 😀

Time to blow my own trumpet here. My adventure/setting book for OpenQuest was released a couple of weeks ago.

So get a copy for Xmas, from

Print Lulu.com
Pdf Drivethrurpg.com

Oh and that nice man Georgie Racer has done a quick review of it. He’s very happy with it 🙂

Geordie Racer’s tiny review of Life and Death.

These were the two adventures (Dead Pot Country and Life and Death) that I used to playtest OpenQuest, and encapsulate everything I like about D100 games. Its very different to The Savage North, so if that didn’t ring your bells hopefully this will.

I’ll post about the future of OpenQuest in a big end of year round up, but just to let you know Life and Death is definitely not the end of the line. Empires Rising is being laid out as we speak, Simon Bray & Paul Mitchener are working on the Draconic themed “Here be Dragons”, and I’ve got an assortment of OQ adventures I need to work out what to do with. Also I’ve got my next OQ adventure/setting book to work on. If you like gritty fantasy horror you’ll like what I have planned 😉