{"id":65,"date":"2003-02-24T06:49:54","date_gmt":"2003-02-24T12:49:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/?p=65"},"modified":"2003-02-24T06:49:54","modified_gmt":"2003-02-24T12:49:54","slug":"pen-and-paper-role-playing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/2003\/02\/24\/pen-and-paper-role-playing\/","title":{"rendered":"Pen and Paper Role-Playing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DragonQuest still rules.<\/p>\n<p>Okay, the new version of Dungeons and Dragons is good, but is a new version really neccessary already?  Well, Wizards of the Coast sure seems to think it is.  They&#8217;ve announced a <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wizards.com\/dnd\/article.asp?x=dnd\/rs\/rs20030218x\">D&#038;D 3.5<\/a>.  What, are they taking lessons from Micro$oft?<\/p>\n<p>So, it&#8217;s back to good old DragonQuest for me.  Thanks to some helpful pirates in New Zealand, I can still get copies of the DragonQuest rules, albeit modified with their house rules.  Still, the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dragonquest.org.nz\/files\/files.html\">Seagate Guild of Adventurers <\/a>has everything you need to play, except dice.  Of course, as I mentioned earlier, they&#8217;ve ignored copyright issues to bring this to the public, which I admire.  Of course, they&#8217;re in another country, which makes copyright enforcement a little tricky, I guess.  In any case, over the years several gamers, myself included, have tried to get teh rights to DragonQuest, to no avail, so it&#8217;s nice that someone has made the info available.<br \/>\nThough, you can still try <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/search.ebay.com\/search\/search.dll?GetResult&#038;query=dragonquest&#038;from=R8&#038;ht=1&#038;st=2&#038;category1=233&#038;Top10=&#038;SortProperty=MetaEndSort&#038;catref=C1\">eBay<\/a> for stray copies.  They do turn up from time to time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DragonQuest still rules. Okay, the new version of Dungeons and Dragons is good, but is a new version really neccessary already? Well, Wizards of the Coast sure seems to think it is. They&#8217;ve announced a D&#038;D 3.5. What, are they taking lessons from Micro$oft? So, it&#8217;s back to good old DragonQuest for me. Thanks to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[157,158],"class_list":["post-65","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games","tag-ebay","tag-seagate-guild-of-adventurers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}