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From: lflgames@well.UUCP (Lucasfilm Games Division)
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Subject: Re: What ever happened to DragonQuest?
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Date: Thu, 26-Dec-85 19:06:51 EST
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Posted: Thu Dec 26 19:06:51 1985
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Summary: The best FRP ever made!


	As far as I'm concerned, one of the worst aspects of SPI's
passing was the end that put to Dragonquest material, in particular
the modules on additional colleges of magic and other extensions that
never saw publication.  Dragonquest is a wonderful, consistent, adaptable
system.  Speaking as one disgusted with the kitchen sink approach of D+D,
I have found both playing in and running Dragonquest games to be a real
joy.  In particular, characters are handled very nicely.  You either get
a bunch of fairly good characteristics, or a couple exceptional ones and
a couple terrible ones - you decide how many points to allot to each
characteristic.  There's no "intelligence" characteristic, which is a
blessing if you've ever played a game with an idiot who couldn't figure
out what to do, and kept asking the DM to tell him the right approach
"because I have an 18 intelligence and can figure it out".  Instead, you
have characteristics like willpower and magical aptitude, which can figure
into a number of interesting game situations.  The magic system is alots
of fun, and encourages creativity rather than brute force.  You can customize
your character with whatever mix of skills you like, like ranger, healer,
assasin, courtesean, etc, instead of being limited to an unrealistic
"character class".  I could go on, but I'll spare you.  If anyone has
information on available Dragonquest info, let me know.  I've gleaned
up two Judge's Guild adventures and a handful of stuff from post-TSR
Ares and Dragon, but that's about it.

				Noah Falstein
				Lucasfilm Games Division
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