Quick Quest is Good Stuff

Jenni Mart 22, 2022

Giffyglyph made this! It's great!

For ages we have search for the bridge between the worlds of 5e and the OSR and by all the gods above and below I think it has revealed itself to us.

Quick Quest is amazing. The more I look at it the more I like it. The cleanliness and single-page nature go without saying, but there are a pair of mechanical bits that are chef's kiss.

The archetypes are a brilliant. Without specific skills, players are guided into describing how they do what they want to do, and those approaches aren't locked to specific stats. Interpreting a mural could be WIS + Art to get into the artist's head, or maybe INT + Fight to analyze the battle that's been portrayed, or CHA + Rogue to fool people into believing what you're talking about it.
In the thread, Giffyglyph talks about how Ancestry and Calling (race and class) are considered "permissions" - ie. this is where you can just go "yeah I can do that, because I am an X". You can go and toss class features out like it's the Defenestration of the Prague because you don't need them. All you need is enough description, just a paragraph, so that people are on the same page.

The combination of these factors forms the shape of your abilities and limitations in your head, thereby freeing you to play the game.

It has 5e game-mouth-feel: modifiers adding up vs difficulty rating, split class and heritage. It's got OSR mechanical simplicity. It's got a little bit of storygame freeformness.

It's good, is what I am saying. It's a good bridge. All parties involved can grok this. You can use anything from anywhere, because mechanics don't matter anymore. Only flavor now.

It is now time for random tables.