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.

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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 !

• Buy a copy from Lulu.com £12 print/£6  Pdf
• Download the free update Pdf
• Download the errata Pdf

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:

• Spending Hero Points for Plot edits a new optional rule.
• Motives a new optional rule that adds Goals to your characters.
• Two different sets of Mass Combat rules.
• The Making of OpenQuest.

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.

I’ve dropped the price of the OpenQuest print version from £15 to £10.

Go to our Store to pick up a copy.

Hearts in Glorantha issue 3 is nearly amongst us!

I’m running a pre-order up until Sunday 30th of August. Books will then ship the following week, wc Monday 7th September.

£6 +p&p (£2 UK/£3 Europe/ £4 Rest of the World) for a Printed copy and FREE Pdfs (print quality & ebook versions) of the issue.

• Go to our store page to pre-order.

• View a preview Pdf.

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Nathan Baron is currently working on ‘Empires Rising’ an adventure/setting book  for OpenQuest, which details the clash of two opposing Empires. It also includes four scenarios which highlights different aspects of the setting, from high seas piratical escapades to political conspiracy.

Currently penciled in for a Summer 2010 release.

OpenQuest:Empires Rising page