 1st edition cover | |
| Designers | Vince Garcia |
|---|---|
| Publishers | Unicorn Game Publications |
| Publication | 1982, 1988 |
| Genres | Heroic Fantasy |
| Systems | proprietary / skill-based |
Quest of the Ancients is an independent role-playing game published in the late 1980s by Unicorn Game Publications.
It is mainly a Dungeons & Dragons clone, in that it was character class- and level-based, used a Dungeon & Dragons style Vancian Magic system, and used a skill system similar to the Advanced Dungeons & Dragons thief skill system. Most notably, it used a thirty sided die (or d30) for combat resolution.
Written by Vince Garcia of Fresno, California, the game system implements a large number of character classes.
Stewart Wieck reviewed Quest of the Ancients in White Wolf #28 (Aug./Sept., 1991), rating it a 3 out of 5 and stated that "This game would be deserving of extra attention if the author had included more information about the game world or even a sample adventure (a pet peeve of mine). As it is QA is a game without a world, and since there are plenty of FRPGs available, there is nothing to distinguish this one beyond being what the new edition of AD&D should have been." [1]
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