Tenkar's Tavern: It Feels Good Having a Gaming Project to Work On

Monday, March 25, 2013

It Feels Good Having a Gaming Project to Work On

I'm glad I have my little Crypts & Things Sandbox to detail and play with. It gives me a little bit of focus, and it's nice working on something that is very much "your own" as opposed to small tweaks to something that isnt, isn this case the awesome Rappan Athuk - "Don't let your adventurers leave home without exploring it!" heh

It's funny, I didn't watch the video tutorial until AFTER I generated and reworked the map. The first thing I ran with from the tutorial was shrinking the damn hex number - they're much less "in your face" now than when i started with the map.

I also did some final tweaks and proofreads on a small project I mostly put to bed months ago (yeah, it was a fairly productive weekend). Well, mostly final tweaks - if the publisher likes it there may be more for me to finish off later, but I do know the artwork is done and it's awesome (any errors in the text will be all mine). Obviously I'll let you know about it when it hits RPGNow.

+Joe Wetzel how about a program that makes artists (not just decent cartographers) out of a Ten-Thumber like me? You'd really have your work cut out for you ;)

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Gothridge ManorMarch 25, 2013 at 12:08 PM
Sounds like fun Erik. I think those kind of projects, campaign starter type, are my favorite to develop.
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Why "Swords & Wizardry?"

Believe me when I say I have them all in dead tree format. I have OSRIC in full size, trade paperback and the Player's Guide. I have LL and the AEC (and somewhere OEC, but I can't find it at the moment). Obviously I have Basic Fantasy RPG. Actually, I have the whole available line in print. Way too much Castles & Crusades. We all know my love for the DCC RPG. I even have Dark Dungeons in print, the Delving Deeper boxed set, Astonishing Swordsmen & Sorcerers of Hyperborea. BOTH editions of LotFP's Weird Fantasy and some dead tree copies of the Greyhawk Grognards Adventures Dark & Deep

I am so deep in the OSR when I come up for breath it's for the OSR's cousin, Tunnels & Trolls

So, out of all that, why Swords & Wizardry? Why, when I have been running a AD&D 1e / OSRIC campaign in Rappan Athuk am I using Swords & Wizardry and it's variant, Crypts & Things, for the second campaign? (Actually, now running a S&W Complete campaign, soon to be with multiple groups)

Because the shit works.

It's easy for lapsed gamers to pick up and feel like they haven't lost a step. I can house rule it and it doesn't break. It plays so close to the AD&D of my youth and college years (S&W Complete especially) that it continually surprises me. Just much less rules hopping than I remember. (my God but I can run it nearly without the book)

I grab and pick and steal from just about all OSR and Original resources. They seem to fit into S&W with little fuss. It may be the same with LL and the rest, but for me the ease of use fit's my expectations with S&W.

Even the single saving throw. That took me longer to adjust to, but even that seems like a natural to me now. Don't ask me why, it just does. Maybe it's the simplicity of it. At 45 52, simplicity and flexibility while remaining true to the feel of the original is an OSR hat trick for me ;)

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It Feels Good Having a Gaming Project to Work On

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