This website is dedicated to the Role-Playing Game Known as DragonQuest (DQ), and originally published by SPI, Inc. In my opinion, DQ was (and remains) one of the premier fantasy RPGs ever developed.
Simulations Publications, Inc. (SPI) was an American publisher of board wargames and related magazines, particularly its flagship Strategy & Tactics, in the 1970s and early 1980s. It produced an enormous number of games and introduced innovative practices, changing the course of the wargaming hobby in many areas.
Unfortunately, SPI ran out of cash, and its assests were obtained by TSR, the makers of Dungeons and Dragons, who had made a loan to SPI which was guaranteed by said assets, and then subsequently held by Wizards of the Coast, and now Hasbro, and it has been out of production for many years – so many years, in fact, that Hasbro/WotC allowed the registered trademark to lapse.
Even so, DQ has a large and faithful following. Thus, a need for this web site. Over the years, many people have created a wealth of original material for use with the DragonQuest game. On this site, I hope to present some of that information, along with any I can gather from other DQ players around the world.
As long as there are those still playing DQ and creating new support material for the game, it won’t die. I invite everyone to submit material to this site and/or comment on what’s already here. Just send email to dragonquest@dragonquestfrontiers.com.
A word or forty about this domain.
The original DragonQuestFrontiers.com site registration by Tom Miller lapsed several years ago, and the domain name was then hijacked for some time. A couple of years ago, I was able to purchase the domain name, and am working to recover content formerly hosted on the site (thank you Internet Archive!) Tom put an amazing amount of work into the site, and I am pleased to be able to offer his work (with his permission) to the world of Dragonquest fans once again. His campaign setting of Arenas should be up before much longer. This is a work in progress, which will take many weeks months, if not years, to fully accomplish. In addition, I plan to convert many of the static HTML page to the WordPress CMS, which will hopefully make for a more stable presentation than pages downloaded from the Internet Archive. I may attempt to make some of the Dragonquest rulesets available in a context usable by the various online platforms such as Fantasy Grounds or Roll20, net – but that’s a way in the future, and more of a learning curve than I am up to at the moment; anyone wishing to assist, please step forward. If you have any comments or suggestions, please feel free to leave them. DQ is a great game, and the gaming group to which I and my spouse have belonged for over 30 years returns to it with great regularity (along with GURPS and other systems.) I have a gaming blog of my own for that group, located at http://www.lookingbackwards.net/weregaming/, and have been a member of the DragonQuest Players Association for several years. Thanks for visiting, look around, sit a spell, read a bit.
Last Updated on 5 years ago by Yr Obdurate Serpent
Greetings, I once owned & managed the site. If I can be of any help with it, please let me know.
THANK YOU! I am so very happy to “meet” you. I am astounded by the amount of work you had on the site, as I recover contents from the Wayback Machine. I hate when good sites disappear, and I have a love of DQ going back 30+ years to when one of my GMs introduced us to it.
Did you receive my email address? I’d love to continue this discussion more privately.
I am so glad you’re going to resurrect the site. I was a huge fan.
I left DQing awhile ago, my friends and I used his site . . . . It was fantastic : ) I’m looking to getting back into the DQing again and am pleased to see you are working on raising the site back from the Dead. I’ll explore it soon in Detail, I just wanted to give you a quick thanks first. THANKS
I wonder if this comment was posted by my late friend Gary…we used to play this all the time just out of highschool and I miss it, and him, so much.
It very well may have been, and if so, I’m sorry to have learned so late of his passing. I’ve not been able to devote nearly the amount of time and energy that Dragonquest deserves in order to modernize the site, but so long as I’m still around, I’ll keep pluggin away at it slowly but surely.
Younger and better eyes than my 70+ year old ones would be helpful!
Ashleigh, aka Weregamer
(a term I coined back in 1976 at the Defense Language Institute while in the Navy.)
Merry Christmas & Happy New Year! 41 years ago today Dragonquest I played the game for the first time. Thanks for all your efforts to resurrect the site!!! Good Gamingin 2023!
Hi Padre, hope this email is still good for you. If not, I may have to use my Arcane Skills and see if I can track you through the aether to contact you. “)
It’s taken me a while to get back to work on this project, but I’m finally making some headway. Hope all is well with you and yours. Still astounded by the amount of work you put into the original DQFrontiers. At 71, I hope I’m up to the task of seeing it continue another few years.
The GM who introduce my wife and I to DQ nearly 40 years ago, died two years ago leaving our gaming group in shock – now we’re mostly stuck with GURPS.
Thanks for making such a treasure trove.
I have been working on an Excel sheet for DQ. I have a version that works well for 3rd ed but was customized a bit to our GM’s campaign. Our game quit for a while and is now starting up again using the the 2014 NZ rules and I am in the process of modifying the sheet to work with those. If you’d like I can send you the previous version, with a little excel know how it can be modified for any rules.
Matt
Hi Matt,
My apologies for being so remiss in replying here. life since the pandemic has been … oddly unpleasant. If you are still paying attention, I’d gladly accept a copy of your Excel sheet. I will send you an email from the admin account here regarding that.
Ashleigh/Weregamer