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Friday, October 4, 2013

Isle of Dread "Walkthrough Map" at the WotC Site

I love it when WotC does these cartoon maps. They frigging rock!

This time its the classic Isle of Dread (they also have blank and hex map versions of the Isle to download)

Previous ones include Slave Pits of the Undercity, The Lost Caverns of Tsojcanth and a bunch of other classics. White Plume Mountain is one of my favs ;)

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The Degenerate EliteOctober 5, 2013 at 4:25 AM
Yeah, these are pretty awesome - be nice to by posters of them.
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Anders Kirstein JensenOctober 6, 2013 at 3:58 PM
Agree - they rock completely! i have also recently bought the artist's - Jason Thompson - excellent graphic novel/illustration of HP Lovecrafts The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath, his Hyperborea and his 24x36" color poster map of The Dreamlands. All good stuff, all recommended!
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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 (thank you Kickstarter) (edit) BOTH editions of LotFP's Weird Fantasy and will soon have some dead tree copies of the Greyhawk Grognards Adventures Dark & Deep ~~shipping shortly~~ in my grubby hands awaiting a review..

I am so deep in the OSR when I come up for breath it's for the OSR's cousin, Tunnels & Trolls (and still waiting on dT&T to ship).

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 48, simplicity and flexibility while remaining true to the feel of the original is an OSR hat trick for me ;)

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Friday, October 4, 2013

Isle of Dread "Walkthrough Map" at the WotC Site

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