Just a quick note to say that Team D101 will have a stall, selling our books, and will be running games ConQuest a one day convention on April 10th at Derby Assembly Rooms.
For more info about the con visit con-quest.co.uk
We’ll have copies of the newly released Savage North, and if things go according to plan Wordplay:the Big five and Monkey.
Finally here’s the line up of games being run by the D101 crew over the day;
It is the dawn of the 28th Century.
The Third Renaissance, or Bright Age as future historians will call it, is at its zenith.
After the catastrophic first contact with extra-terrestrial life that led to the horrific Solar System war, humanity clawed its way back from the brink and finally reached the stars. For millions of people, Earth’s sun is no more than another star in the night sky, a mote of light, a spiritual birthplace that they will never visit in their lifetimes.
It has been over a century since the Machine Civilisation gifted humanity technological marvels such as the Visser Cube, allowing wormhole travel across the vast chasms of interstellar space. Now interstellar distances grow ever shorter. How the myriad of splintered cultures view this gift varies. Some see it as a blessing, a way to draw humanity into a united whole. Others see it as a curse, robbing them of their individuality. And then there are those who would use it as a means to subjugate humanity and impose their own will upon all…
Across the river of heaven, humanity clings to a scattering of islands in a sea of stars. Players can take on a multitude of roles in this future: a crew member on an interstellar trader, a member of the mysterious Engineers’ Guild, a body-hopping Intercessionist agent – out to manipulate human cultures to its own secret ends, a Renouncer Zealot – intent on destroying Artificial Intelligence in all its forms, or perhaps one of the Reclaimers – planetary engineers dedicated to terraforming any viable planet they happen upon…
River of Heaven uses D101 games’ OpenQuest rules engine; a sleek and streamlined D100 rule set that enables you to maintain the tempo of your stories whilst keeping the rules simple and in the background.
Ever 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.
The Company uses D101 games’ OpenQuest rules engine; a sleek and streamlined D100 rule set that enables you to maintain the tempo of your stories whilst keeping the rules simple and in the background.
Hi Folks
Just thought the time was right to announce, that D101 games is going to be releasing Wordplay: The Big Five. This is the original core rules, as released in the plain text version at Furnace, + five themes, or settings, that have been written to support the game + adventures. Cover by the wonderful Jon Hodgson, and interior art art by Ilkka Leskela, Simon Bray, Peter Town and John Ossoway.
ETA April 2010 – hopefully it will be available at Con-Quest 2010 April 10th Derby Assembly Rooms.
Tidied up and expanded, includes new errata + 16 new pages (a new adventure and optional rules).
Buy a copy or download the free update pdf and/or download the free Errata Pdf to update your OpenQuest experience !
I’ve just set up a D101 Games Facebook page so you can follow and discuss us there.
http://www.facebook.com/pages/D101-Games/
Lulu is currently having a XMAS sale and if you enter HOHOHO code at checkout, you get a 20% discount until 31st Dec.
Since D101 games sells through Lulu, this means you can get OpenQuest and Hearts in Glorantha at even lower prices.
OpenQuest is £8 (down from £10)
Hearts in Glorantha issues 3 & 2 is £6.40 (down from £8)
Hearts in Glorantha issue 1 is now £5.60 (down from £8)
Want new rules, new monsters, adventures and other miscellaneous bits for your OpenQuest games all released free under the Open Gaming License?
Well the OpenQuest Companion, a new online web resource is just what you are looking for.
Currently we have:
With more to come in the coming weeks.
Visit the OpenQuest Companion at http://openquest.d101games.co.uk
Furnace is an old friend of D101 Games, its been the triumphant setting of many a game of OpenQuest and Monkey in the past and one of the inspirations for what we do.
At least two games of OpenQuest will be running;
Pirates of the Black Isles
An OpenQuest adventure from Empires Rising by Nathan Baron
The Black Isles are a notorious Pirate haven, attracting all the scum and villainy that sail the seas of Athennia. Rumours are rife that a long-dead infamous Pirate, Captain Xanbarer, left a map to his treasure horde hidden inside clay pot. Now this pot has mysteriously turned up in the possession of a one-eyed hermit living on one of the outer islands. Does this pot contains directions to Xanbarer’s treasure, and lead to wealth and fortune to whoever finds it?
The Beast of Ravenswood.
An OpenQuest adventure from The Savage North by John Ossoway, GMed by Tom Zunder
It started just before the start of last Autumn. Trappers and woodsmen returning from hunting trips into Ravenswood brought back stories of comrades who had been lost to a creature of ancient evil which stalked any caught in the forest after nightfall. No one has seen the beast and lived to tell the tale. Their mutilated corpses were found headless. None of the victim’s heads have ever been found. The merchants and elders of Arnstown posted a bounty of 500 silver pieces to whoever killed the beast and brought the head before them as proof.
That was 4 months ago. The bounty has been increased 3 times and now stands at 1000 pieces of silver, but still no one has succeeded in slaying the beast.
The con trader Patriot Games will also have copies of the game.
Unfortunately the con is sold out, and I’m not going to be in attendance (due to recent new arrival in the Newt family 
), but if you are going no excuse not to get a game of OpenQuest in and get a copy of the game 
Issue 3, Undersea Adventures, is now available to buy from our Lulu Store.
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