From: sevmek@yabbs
To: all@yabbs
Subject: Quarterstaff
Date: Tue Sep 21 20:12:25 1993
I loved the Infocom era... I solved the Zorks, I solved Enchanter, and a 
couple of the older ones.  They started to get cheesy.

The game I was most impressed by, though, was Quarterstaff.  I was a beta 
tester for it.  It had a cool combat system... you had a proficiency in a 
variety of things (blunt, sharp, fire, cold, bow, etc.)  EVERY object in 
the game falls under one of those proficiencies.  Every object in the game 
also has hit points.  You can pick up a chair and throw it at something.  
It will do damage to the thing, and to the target.  Having a sword break 
if you whomp locks with it is annoying but realistic.  I once lost all my 
equipment in a battle, picked up one of my dead comrades, and started 
hitting the monster with his dead body.

I don't know whether Quarterstaff was ever fully released, but it's one of 
the few half-graphic adventure games I ever went for.

    --Sevmek