Q&A with Jeffery Quinn

[JPQuinn]

"Grognards unite! Your Destiny has arrived."

Teasers!!!!!

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This is a mock-up cover for the first dungeon adventure using Destiny. And one of the NPCs the players encounter. Please note: all of the above information is still very early in the layout stages and may appear differently in the final product.

Hmm. I'm a 3e man personally. Would that include my kind of grognard?

Maybe not "your type" (though I wouldn't consider 3e old enough to be grog-worthy yet). But if you like Blackmoor, Wilderlands, the 3e Dungeon Crawl Classics series, and anything from 3e that was "retro-styled," then you'll love Destiny.

I only mention it in this forum because: A) I am a shameless self-promoter; B) I give a large tip of the hat to Blackmoor and the ground-breaking work that people like Dave Arneson, Bob Bledsaw, E Gary Gygax, Robert Kuntz, and other "grognard" pioneers hammered from a few scratched together rules back in 1970; C) like The Final Fantasy Campaign (aka - Blackmoor 4e) and even Dungeons & Dragons Fourth Edition as a whole, Destiny is also a progressive and visionary masterpiece of game mechanics which would have most assuredly piqued Dave's interest; and D) I would like some of the talented few from this board to test the system and be recognized.

How much of what Dave Arneson showed you has gone into printed products? (Or to put it another way, if I buy all the books, how much Blackmoor ideas are missing?) Can I get away with just buying the 3e products, or are there any pre-3e things that got missed out from the 3e line?

I would say Dave had ideas and enough written information for a least another 500 to 1000 pages. And the development teams scrambled to keep up with him. So, I don't think there would have ever been an "end" to the information that he had. I'm sure Greg and Robert (both on this board and played in his first campaign) can attest to that.

And as for the 3e books. A great deal of info is in there, but there is a bunch missing that we weren't allowed to touch (due to licensing agreements). Be sure to check out Basic Dungeons & Dragons, 1e D&D, and pretty much anything with Mystara and Greyhawk in it. You are bound to pick up some information in all those (plus sources like the WotC website, this site, Havard's dark and dusty mind, etc.). And brushing up on the older editions will aid you in becoming "grog-versed" (I believe there is an age prerequisite to become a grognard, check with your FLGS for what the prerequisites are in your area).

BTW, we have this complex of questions on the page we call the "Coot's Seat."

I will answer these in a different post and after I have had some time to think up some good answers. ("First character," really? That was 30 years ago!) hock: