Tuesday, February 19, 2019

Isle of Dread as an Endless Quest Book from WotC?

Endless Quest was the name of the Pick-Your-Own Adventure Path game books that TSR published between 1982 and 1996. It was recently revived for the  D&D 5th Edition with a series of books by author Matt Forbeck.

Matt recently revealed the covers for two new books in the series that will be published in September this year.


Escape from Castle Ravenloft is especially noteworthy because it is the only book so far to be associated with a D&D setting other than the Forgotten Realms. All the books in the series have tie ins to current D&D Adventure Sourcebooks. The Mad Mage's Academy is tied to Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage for instance.

"You never know, but we’ve stuck mostly to the Forgotten Realms so far. Ravenloft is our first venture outside that." says Matt Forbeck when asked about the possibility of an Isle of Dread tie in book. The question came up because a gigantic hardcover version of the Isle of Dread was released last year. It was published by Goodman Games under lisence, but the previous adventure in that series, Into the Borderlands, is advertised on Wizard's Website.

More Isle of Dread material from WotC would make fans of BECMI D&D and fans of Mystara happy. The setting has been teased in numerous D&D5E books, but Isle of Dread is the only book to fully embrace the setting.


See also: An old analysis of mine about the old Endless Quest Books and possible connections to Mystara (Piazza thread)



-Havard

3 comments:

  1. Sorry about the slightly Click-baity nature of this headline :)

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  2. Apparently there are no new ideas anymore.

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    1. I just got back to Korea after a month in the States. What sorts of TV show commercials did I see? Magnum P.I., Hawaii 5-0, S.W.A.T., etc. Why make something new and interesting when you can just remake something old?

      Of course, if the networks REALLY wanted to save money, they could just start repeating the ACTUAL old shows from the 70s/80s again. :)

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