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.

The following games & gaming magazines are now available Worldwide from our Lulu Store (in Print and Pdf) & DriveThruRpg.com (Pdf only);

Latest releases

• Ye Little Book of HeroQuest Fantasy £6 print +P&P
• Adventures in Wordplay Issue 1: The Drowned Lands £5 print +P&P /£2.50 PDF

A bit belated, but here’s a quick run down of what D101 is upto in 2011.

Wombat
The rules for Monkey were originally a fork of a system that I call Wombat, which used a single D6 as a randomiser instead of cards.  Now that Monkey is out and about, I’m working on Wombat to make it into a light weight rules-wise but immersive play-wise story telling game, that I can use as a quick in-house system for a variety of ideas I have. Currently in Alpha, but aiming for a October (Furnace release).

More http://d101games.co.uk/books/wombat/

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The latest in the “Ye Little Book of HeroQuest Fantasy” Pdf series has now been released.

Grab it from DriveThruRpg.com.

Welcome to the world of Old School done New School! This ‘Genre Pak’ aims to emulate the feel and excitement of those early dungeon based adventures of the 70s/80s. It is designed so you can quickly and easily generate heroes, pick up the small amount of genre specific rules, and then head down the example dungeon. If you are looking to introduce your players to HeroQuest, in a setting that should be familiar and comfortable to all of them,  this is the book to do it with.

Ye Little Book of HeroQuest Dungeoneering is split into five sections.

1. Hero generation. Four class keywords and four racial keywords, with guidance on how to create old school heroes of Sword and Sorcery.

2. Magic. Gives Vancian Magic as a magic framework, with example spells and magic items.

3. Monsters. Guidance on how to convert your favourite old school monster to HeroQuest.

4. Dungeon Design. A frame work for quickly creating dungeon based adventures.

5. The Catacombs of Zaz. An example medium level dungeon.

I’ve got a long association with HeroQuest, having played the game from its first incarnation HeroWars in 2000. I’m delighted that Moon Designs is allowing other publishers release non-Gloranthan supplements under the Open Gaming Licence. D101 Games will be fully embracing this amazing opportunity and releasing a number of HeroQuest supplements in various genres.

See what we’ve got in the pipeline on our HeroQuest page.