Recent content by Newt Newport

I dropped Major Wounds in OpenQuest 3rd Edition (therefore, they are there in OQ1 & OQ2) because it very rarely got used in my games. When I did get all excited about a PC losing an eye or suffering a punctured lung - they would just buy it off with a Fortune Point. Therefore, the whole thing...

Thanks everyone for the warm words :) OpenQuest is currently on deep discount (about 60%) over at DriveThruRpg.com until Boxing Day :) OpenQuest on Drivethrurpg.com Also, as part of a series of five flash sales I'm holding after Christmas in the run-up to New Year's Day, the pdfs of...

Whoa, that is some obscure message from the Universe. I was talking to Simon Bray (the co-author) for the first time in years when you posted that :D

I agree with you there. I deliberately killed many sacred BRP cows when I wrote OpenQuest. Tick box experience, and golf club lists of weapon skills to name few. My aim was not to retroclone, or emulate BRP, but to put down on paper the ruleset that grew out of my own RQ and BRP games of the...

Thanks. I'm planning to. I tease my plans and generally pontificate about RQ/Glorantha on my fan blog Arkat's Playground.

I rushed to buy them the day they came out because I was super-curious to see how this aeons in the making project had worked out. Also, the art previews had tickled my fancy somewhat. I'm not disappointed. It's invigorated my Gloranthan fandom, where I was waning a bit. I've been into the...

Although I'm getting the ltd edition as a backer reward, I used the at-cost POD coupon to pick up the Erol Otus-covered book. Very nice and clear layout. A bit art low compared to previous editions, but given how much content is crammed into the book, that's forgivable, and it's all appropriate...

Nope, they are both softcovers.

Mine is about to turn up today. I'm eagerly anticipating it, and hopefully should be able to read it over coffee this afternoon. :smile: My mate Graham (who goes by the handle of FirstAge) ran the quickstart for me at Furnace convention a couple of years back. I was worried it would cover...

Hullo Folks, it seems I've been summoned to answer many questions about Sword Against the Shroud's discontinuation. So here we go. A bit of background here. Sword Against the Shroud was written as a Kickstarter stretch goal for From the Shroud #2 zine. It was a bit of an experiment, a quick...

Put very simply, Greg changed his mind often and made up reasons for why it had changed or was never so in the first place. Jeff is just continuing this fine tradition ;) A more down-to-earth view is that they went a bit bonkers with the number of cults in the HeroWars era that Storm...

Best way to see what we do as a company is to check out the store page since it lists all our games. d101games.com/store As people have mentioned, we are known for our D100 games (OpenQuest and spinoffs River of Heaven and now SimpleQuest). Still, we also do Crypts and Things (Swords and...

Despite going off and doing my own thing with OpenQuest, I still have a soft spot for BRP, because it was a huge part of my gaming yoof (80s-90s). If the ORC as implemented by Chaosium, is favourable (and there's no reason why it shouldn't be), you may see some BRP products from me that reflect...

Monkey is the name of the abridged translation by Arthur Whaley of the Journey to the West. It's the most commonly available version here in Britain via Penguin Classics, which is how I first encountered the novel back in the 90s.

Without wanting to sound biased, yes OpenQuest can out of the box, because I wrote it that way :D My regular OQ Thursday game, now that the characters have had about 10+ adventures worth of character advancement, plays more like Brotherhood of the Wolf than normal "I hit you, you parry me" D100...