D101 Games at Conpulsion Apocalypse 2012 Edinburgh Easter Weekend
March 11th, 2012 by NewtI’m going to be a Guest at Conpulsion over the Easter Weekend. Doing a talk about Monkey, Sunday morning, as well as running Monkey and Project Darklight on Saturday 
Nothing planned Sunday afternoon/evening, so will quite happily do requests.
More details about the Convention on its web site
Here’s my guest bio and the details of my two games
Crypts and Things unleashed!!!
February 17th, 2012 by Newt
Happy Holidays!!
December 30th, 2011 by NewtWhether its Christmas, Yule, Saturnaila or just “Hurrah I’m off for week!” that you’ve been celebrating recently, all at D101 Games wishes you a happy one
Keep your eyes peeled for our upcoming “D101 marches into 2012″ update over the next couple of days
Happy Birthday Life and Death!
November 25th, 2011 by NewtIts a year ago since I published my OpenQuest adventure Life and Death.
So to celebrate I’ve dropped the print price from $23 (£15) to (£10) and the PDF from $12 (£8) to $8 (£5) until Sunday night 23:59 GMT
Want reviews?
Blood of the Dragon for Crypts & Things
November 5th, 2011 by Newt“Under a land shrouded in volcanic ash punctuated by rocky spires that tear at the sky they say the Dragons sleep. Tyanos the Black, Trickster god of the long dead Hu-pi people stole their blood and bottled it for his insane delight. As drink of the gods it confers immortanlity to mortal man, but at what terrible price?
In fact the very quest for this elixir is insane. A trip into a harsh and unforgiving land of the Spires, a poor and bandit ridden weirdland, inhabited by the likes of Black Joop, Nigus the Headless and the Mother of Hydra. Names that should send a shiver down your spine. So pick up your sword, down the last of your ale to steady any nerves and stride off towards a great adventure into the Ash Plains.”
Blood of the Dragon is the first C&T module for low levels (1st-3rd). It was originally intended to be a one page dungeon, inspired by some inane Twitter banter between myself, Sacha Ratcliffe and John Ossoway. Then it grew like a small shoggoth and was next slated to be the introductory adventure included with C&T. Then it out grew that spec and mutated into its current form of a standalone adventure module.
I’m still pulling it together but my plan is to have a couple of adventure locations detailed , so you can get stuck in and play straight out of the box, a guide to the land and encounter tables which facilities sand box play, and some colourful npcs that the pcs can meet and inevitably rub up the wrong way. There’s also already one new monster group, a tribute to a certain 70s Sci-fi movie series that stared Roddy McDowell in a mask 
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This should come out shortly after C&T is released, if everything goes to plan it will be about a month later.
And the best bit is if you jump on the C&T pre-order now since we are 85% towards the goal with just under a month to go, its highly likely everyone on the pre-order will get it for free
The Company now available to pre-order
October 24th, 2011 by NewtEver wondered what it is like to jump out of an aircraft 50,000 feet above a stricken oil tanker? Or how you’d handle defusing an IED? Or what it is like standing between a visiting VIP and that sniper’s bullet? Well now you can because The Company will put you right at the centre of the action.
In The Company you play an employee of The Company – an elite independent Private Military Service Provider, a global security concern capable of dealing with any situation from a high octane firefight to the tracking down of serial killers. If you can think of it, The Company can handle it.
This 214 page Roleplaying which puts you in the boots of a member of The Company. Play a solider, a pilot, a surveillance officer or any other concept you can dream up that fits the setting.
The game uses a modified version OpenQuest, a straight forward d100 system, with extra rules to handle Guns, non-lethal weapons, mental trauma and Vehicles.
It also contains pages of World information about Trouble hot spots, terrorist organisations, and Competitors to the company. A skill-full blend of real world information, written by someone who has worked in the UK Defence industry, and game-able fiction.
Two full scenarios :
Operation Bluebeard – A seemingly straightforward mission to parachute out of a Osprey onto an oil captured by Somali pirates and rescue the crew.
Operation F.I.S.H and C.H.I.P.S – As part of a Assault Group Maximum unit protect A.I.D.S charity workers in war torn Africa.
It is now available to pre-order via indiegogo.com until December 9th. The pdf of the game is ready now and all pre-orders will get the pdf.
Prices
- Pdf only $10
- Softcover + Pdf $30
- Hardcover + Pdf $40
Furthermore if the Goal of the pre-order is reached, every pre-order will get a pdf or print copy of the scenario Operation Camphor.
More information about The Company, including the first fifteen pages as a preview pdf on the D101 Games website.
Crypts and Things available for Pre-Order
October 4th, 2011 by NewtCrypts & Things is a Swords and Sorcery game based upon the class/level based Old School roleplaying game rules from the late 1970s, with the rules modified to emphasise the genre.
Its a game where the players play Barbarians, Fighters, Magicians, and Thieves struggling to survive in the dying world of Zarth. Looting long dead cities, tombs and battling Serpent Men and their demonic allies.
It is a world where action and exotic adventure is the name of the game.
It takes its inspiration form the works of Clark Ashton Smith, HP Lovecraft, Michael Moorcock, Robert E. Howard and the gaming material of the early British role-playing publications of the 70s-80s.
It is 150 pages long and is copiously illustrated with black and white pictures.
Its now available to pre-order in a variety of formats (pdf, Print/Pdf bundles etc) over at indiegogo.com
http://www.indiegogo.com/Crypts-and-Things
Not only will you get the game before it goes on general release, but if you take part in the Pre-order and we reach the Goal you will receive a free copy of the first adventure module for the game “Blood of the Dragon”.
Here’s the cover by the supremely talented Jon Hodgson.
Book of Glorious Joy for HeroQuest now available
August 26th, 2011 by Newt
Jamie “Trotsky” Revell’s long awaited supplement about the Gloranthan West, The Book of Glorious Joy is now available to buy
176 page book written by Jamie Revell, cover by Jon Hodgson, internal art by Peter Town, available in pdf ($15) , softcover ($30) and hardcover($40) from DriveThrurpg.com
The Book of Glorious Joy on sale at Drivethrurpg.com
This Book gives an overview of the Gloranthan West before detailing the heroic Kingdom of Loskalm. Where adventurous souls seek the Joy of the Heart and rise from the rank of Peasant to the lofty heights of Wizard-Knight!
176 of playable material, including character generation, history, mythology, religions, cultural and magical information, for a setting that is very different from the standard published Gloranthan settings.
Comprising of two parts, made up of the following chapters.
Book 1. Heroes of Malkion
Introduction – Overview of the West
Keeping the Faith – Mythology, history and occupational keywords.
The Divine Word – An Overview of Western Magic.
Book 2. Wizard Knights
Overview of the Kingdom of Loskalm – It’s history, culture and major personalities.
The Idealist Church of Loskalm. A full write up of Loskalm’s religions.
Gazetterof Loskalm – A full guide to Loskalm and its provinces.
Commonly encountered Non Player Characters.
The Parish of Haut Ussle -an example community.
Hitting warp speed to get River of Heaven done
August 9th, 2011 by Newt
Here at D101 HQ we are really ramping it up to get River of Heaven (OQ powered hard Sci-fi) out to you by the end of the year. Playtesting is wrapping up by the end of the month, and John Ossoway (author) is picking up his pens to do the internal art.
In the meantime that powerhouse of RPG art, Jon Hodgson, has done us proud once again with this cover for the game.