oleg@birtch.UUCP (Oleg Kiselev) (12/20/85)
In article <707@k.cs.cmu.edu> tim@k.cs.cmu.edu (Tim Maroney) writes: >Glad Avalon Hill is finally living up to their contractual requirements to >RQ, which were to produce four supplements a year. What were the promices TSR made about DragonQuest? What ever happened to it?! It WAS a decent game - kinda "poor man's" RuneQuest..... -- Disclamer: My employers go to church every Sunday, listen to Country music, and donate money to GOP. I am just a deviant. +-------------------------------+ Don't bother, I'll find the door! | "VIOLATORS WILL BE TOAD!" | Oleg Kiselev. | Dungeon Police |...!{trwrb|scgvaxd}!felix!birtch!oleg --------------------------------+...!{ihnp4|randvax}!ucla-cs!uclapic!oac6!oleg
oleg@birtch.UUCP (Oleg Kiselev) (12/20/85)
In article <707@k.cs.cmu.edu> tim@k.cs.cmu.edu (Tim Maroney) writes: >Glad Avalon Hill is finally living up to their contractual requirements to >RQ, which were to produce four supplements a year. What were the promices TSR made about DragonQuest? What ever happened to it?! It WAS a decent game - kinda "poor man's" RuneQuest..... -- Disclamer: My employers go to church every Sunday, listen to Country music, and donate money to GOP. I am just a deviant. +-------------------------------+ Don't bother, I'll find the door! | "VIOLATORS WILL BE TOAD!" | Oleg Kiselev. | Dungeon Police |...!{trwrb|scgvaxd}!felix!birtch!oleg --------------------------------+...!{ihnp4|randvax}!ucla-cs!uclapic!oac6!oleg
lflgames@well.UUCP (Lucasfilm Games Division) (12/27/85)
As far as I'm concerned, one of the worst aspects of SPI's passing was the end that put to Dragonquest material, in particular the modules on additional colleges of magic and other extensions that never saw publication. Dragonquest is a wonderful, consistent, adaptable system. Speaking as one disgusted with the kitchen sink approach of D+D, I have found both playing in and running Dragonquest games to be a real joy. In particular, characters are handled very nicely. You either get a bunch of fairly good characteristics, or a couple exceptional ones and a couple terrible ones - you decide how many points to allot to each characteristic. There's no "intelligence" characteristic, which is a blessing if you've ever played a game with an idiot who couldn't figure out what to do, and kept asking the DM to tell him the right approach "because I have an 18 intelligence and can figure it out". Instead, you have characteristics like willpower and magical aptitude, which can figure into a number of interesting game situations. The magic system is alots of fun, and encourages creativity rather than brute force. You can customize your character with whatever mix of skills you like, like ranger, healer, assasin, courtesean, etc, instead of being limited to an unrealistic "character class". I could go on, but I'll spare you. If anyone has information on available Dragonquest info, let me know. I've gleaned up two Judge's Guild adventures and a handful of stuff from post-TSR Ares and Dragon, but that's about it. Noah Falstein Lucasfilm Games Division (sorry for no more complete pathnames) well!lflgames (415) 485-5055
oleg@birtch.UUCP (Oleg Kiselev) (12/30/85)
A few rumours I have gathered : o E. Gary Gygax is back at the helm of TSR, his former wife and her friends having gotten the boot from the capital lenders. o TSR has published more in the last 3 months than in the whole last fiscal year. That includes "Unearthed Archana", Oriental AD&D, many modules, E.G.G.'s own fantasy novel, mass combat, high level setups and many other "wonders". o At the time of sale, SPI had a compleat TYPESET volume of new colleges, new monsters, new skills and other new and exciting things ready for publication. TSR has "fulfilled" its obligations to DQ players by occasionally printing a short DQ article in the "Dragon" - whooppy doo! I think it stinks, tho'. I hope AH does better with RQ ( they are pulling the old "sell-apart" method of capitalization on an existant fandom). Anybody wants to run DQ ( on the net or live if you are in Southern Cal)? -- Disclamer: I don't work here anymore - so they are not responsible for me. +-------------------------------+ Don't bother, I'll find the door! | STAY ALERT! TRUST NO ONE! | Oleg Kiselev. | KEEP YOUR LASER HANDY! |...!{trwrb|scgvaxd}!felix!birtch!oleg --------------------------------+...!{ihnp4|randvax}!ucla-cs!uclapic!oac6!oleg