DragonQuest has a new "old" home!

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Hey, all!

So, the fans of SPI's DragonQuest game, for the longest time, had organized through a Yahoo Groups newsletter. Now that Yahoo Groups is gone, they are re-organzing their efforts via:

www.dragonquest.org


The files from the old Groups server are not lost, but have been collected and uploaded to this section of the page:

www.dragonquest.org/files/index.html


Personally, I'm very happy that the files, in particular, are back. DQ was an extremely cool game, and many of the adventures made for it have endured in my collection for many years.

Enjoy!

- R

[tdenmark]

I got the original boxed set and core book long ago and enjoyed reading it, but haven't played it. I think I still have them somewhere in storage.

[doublejig2]

A passing ship? I've seen it.
Crewing to the grog...

[jeffb]

DQ thoughts/random musings

I ran the adventure in the back of the book , IIRC back in the day. Camp of Alla something something. At the time, I liked a lot of that game as it brought a more "realistic" system like RQ/BRP to a classic S&S/Fantasy world like D&D. God how that such a thing in 1980 and beyond- "realistic" fantasy games (or at least ones that internally/mechanically made more sense than D&D's extreme abstract nature)

I especially liked the art ( I had the 2E-Bantam print)- That artist would later go on to do a bunch of artwork for TSR during 2E (He's all over From the Ashes). IDR his name at the moment.

The day I bought that 2E Bantam print, the cover actually gave me a nightmare that night- Not that I was scared of that sort of thing normally, but I had a crazy dream about that Green Dragon.

I hated the SPI formatting. I had bought COMMANDO from them previous (and had lots of fun with it), and was not completely unfamiliar, but it was too formal. Today, I feel differently- I like the structure, though I could deal without all the decimal places.

On vacay with the family not long after I picked up the GM screen (for 1st edition , I was so disappointed and unable to return it, at that time) and The Blade of Alectus(sp?) which is another bit of cover art that really hit me on some deep level. Not sure if I ran it, or what it was about, but I remember that SOB with the sharp teeth on the cover.

Years ago, during my collecting phase I picked up a copy of TSR's 3rd Edition. I glanced through it, sold it later when a long layoff forced me to sell my massive collection.

Anyone still playing it?

[Otto Harkaman]

This is great Rafael, thanks for sharing the info!

Mar 29, 2020 12:28:43 GMT -6 jeffb said:

I hated the SPI formatting. I had bought COMMANDO from them previous (and had lots of fun with it), and was not completely unfamiliar, but it was too formal.

I would like to run a SPI Commando game sometime in the near future.