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Thursday, April 5, 2018

Deal of the Day - Fever-Dreaming Marlinko (OSR Setting / Adventure)

Today's RPGNow Deal of the Day is Fever-Dreaming Marlinko from the Hydra Collective.

Visit Marlinko, a borderlands city where life takes a strange fever-dream cast, in this 72-page urban adventure fantasy supplement. Part city-setting, part full-blown adventure, Fever-Dreaming Marlinko is a stand-alone companion to the Slavic acid fantasy weirdness of the Slumbering Ursine Dunes.

What you will find inside:

Background and hooks for the city's “four contradas,” city quarters with their own peculiar traditions, sites and even gods.

Gorgeous isometric city maps by Luka Rejec. Download them for free at full-sized, high resolution here.

Two complete dungeon adventure sites.

Two new players classes (the Mountebank and Robodwarf).

Chaos Index with escalating events/triggers scattered throughout the city.

News generator with full news briefs and hooks.

Tiger-wrestling mini-game.

Weird nickname generator.

Section on running scams, hoaxes and grifting activity in a fantasy campaign.

Carousing system tied into the contrada system.

A“fair play/pay” guild system for hirelings.

Normally $6.75 in PDF, you can grab a copy of Fever Dreaming Marlinko until tomorrow morning for $2.70.

That's an affiliate link above. Its one of the ways you can "tip your bartender" doing what you were going to do anyway ;)

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Pun IsaacApril 5, 2018 at 6:29 PM
This is a great book. I hope folks take advantage of the amazing deal.
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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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Deal of the Day - Fever-Dreaming Marlinko (OSR Setting / Adventure)

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