Ye Olde Inn

by **Pentroncius** » March 23rd, 2023, 2:57 pm

I see my name taken in vain here and there and just thought I'd add the following. I would love to do 'full' expansions, but having investigated this in the past I managed to get a expansion pack down to about $250 but I think that's a lot of money. Add on to that shipping (I expect the U.S. from the other side of the pond) and you can add another $100 to that price tag which just make the whole thing unviable. So I do Quest Books that use pretty much only the existing officially released on content. And I release my content for free (you're buying a printed version of the Quests, not the quests themselves).
@lestodante is doing a full, proper and complete effort that will doubtlessly be of a very high quality and will represent, as far as possible, the teams best attempt to conserve and re-create the lost Quest packs. I wish everyone involved will in this endeavour and remind people that putting together a Quest book take a lot of time - so I can only image the amount of manhours needed to do a whole expansion pack.

Pentroncius wrote:I see my name taken in vain here and there and just thought I'd add the following. I would love to do 'full' expansions, but having investigated this in the past I managed to get a expansion pack down to about $250 but I think that's a lot of money. Add on to that shipping (I expect the U.S. from the other side of the pond) and you can add another $100 to that price tag which just make the whole thing unviable. So I do Quest Books that use pretty much only the existing officially released on content. And I release my content for free (you're buying a printed version of the Quests, not the quests themselves).
@lestodante is doing a full, proper and complete effort that will doubtlessly be of a very high quality and will represent, as far as possible, the teams best attempt to conserve and re-create the lost Quest packs. I wish everyone involved will in this endeavour and remind people that putting together a Quest book take a lot of time - so I can only image the amount of manhours needed to do a whole expansion pack.

I dont think anyone took you name in vain, moreso playful sarcasm!

I love your quests and are honestly better than a lot of the offical quests, what is even better is the quality you maintain while releasing 1 a week!!!!

by **leo** » June 28th, 2023, 9:53 pm

Look forward to seeing what you come up, thanks for taking on this project.

by **Kurgan** » June 29th, 2023, 1:40 pm

If he's as good as you say, why hasn't he applied at Avalon Hill??? Just saying...

by **emlit** » July 31st, 2023, 8:33 pm

Amazing story and endeavor, here. I just read the entire thread and am excited to 1) learn more about the missing QPs and 2) see how the fan project comes to fruition. Best wishes to all those involved.

by **ScooterinAB** » September 27th, 2023, 2:17 am

All of this is very interesting. I understand you wanting to prioritize a more polished product. Have you considered releasing an archive of the original documents, as they were? Perhaps that can come after the work you're doing is done, but I think it's important to archive stuff like this so that the risk of it being lost is diminished. There's a lot of value in seeing that material, even if it's unplayable.

by **Kurgan** » September 27th, 2023, 11:23 am

For the fans yes, I agree that would be a good thing. Avalon Hill has the full archive via Hasbro, but they'd have no reason to ever release it to the public, since they probably figure only a few of us historian minded fans would be interested, though some ideas from it are bound to appear here and there (like Snowdasher) even if they don't have firm plans to release a Wizard and Dwarf pack based on any templates from the 90's.