Comments for OpenQuest Companion

Comment on Failed experiments in tinkering with the rules by Tom Zunder

Tom Zunder — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 13:31:14 +0000

I have run both OQ and MRQII this year and I have to say that Characteristics are redundant. Talislanta replaced them with a modifer, as has True20, but I’d say in a d100 game one could simply remove them. Derive skills from culture and experience, then derive HPs from Resilience and MP from Persistence, some kind of Initiative/SR comes from your combat skill.
I liked the combat manoeuvres in MRQII, but I can’t really with Combat Actions cycling, so I’d port the concept, but not reimport CAs.. I found I liked rolling for initiative.

The only stat that I might miss is SIZ actually.

A new “build your own spell” magic system or a “weave it from the runes on the fly” would be good, and it could be written in such a way as to be backward compatible with other d100 games.

However, none of this adds anything to what is a good simple iteration of d100, and I’d say a book of alternative magic systems could be written under the OQ banner as a new sourcebook, it doesn’t require a new core rulebook.

Comment on Failed experiments in tinkering with the rules by Simon Hibbs

Simon Hibbs — Wed, 04 May 2011 13:57:01 +0000

I think D100# and SimpleQuest would all be worthy projects, but they aren’t OpenQuest and would be very different games.

The most promising line of thought is OpenQuest 2. There’s nothing in what you suggested that would require a break in backwards compatibility as long as the system still has the same core stats such as Hit Points, Magic Points, etc. A new magic system that builds on these same core components is just an additional option. Or did your plans for OQ2 include fundamental changes to these elements of the game?

Comment on Mass Combat Rules variant 1 (Optional, non-official) by Paul Mitchener

Paul Mitchener — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 09:52:10 +0000

For what it’s worth, I’ve now tested this in my OpenQuest: Ancient Rome game. It works very much as I would want it to. One could further abstract the “list” of modifiers by giving a +25% bonus (or -25% penalty to the other side) per situational modifier.

Incidentally, the PCs can attempt do something clever (probably gaining a +25% bonus) and something risky in the battle (for another +25% bonus) which should be enough to swing the tide of a fight without guaranteeing anything- exactly what I wanted.

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Comment on Ready made Concepts (Optional) by Newt

Newt — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 15:07:09 +0000

Damn you Mr Bray, how dare you point out my mistake and make me go in and edit it out

Cheers Simon

;O)Newt

Comment on Ready made Concepts (Optional) by Simon Bray

Simon Bray — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 15:02:52 +0000

Hi,

Shouldn’t the trader have Trade as a skill?

Simon