Tenkar's Tavern: The Adventurer - For Those 3d6 in Order Games

Friday, July 2, 2010

The Adventurer - For Those 3d6 in Order Games

Do you generally roll sucky rolls when creating your Old School PC? Forced to play with those poor rolls in order rolled? Then this may be the class for you.

The Adventurer from Soap Box games gives you the class to play when you CAN'T roll above a 12 in any ability you might need in combat. It's the ultimate in the "everyman" situation. Actually, it isnt a bad class.. its a good class for bad rolls. 75 cents for this short PDF.

As an aside, it would make a pretty good class for a Watchman type character.

Second aside, I answered Greg here.

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ChristianJuly 2, 2010 at 8:36 PM
I love the idea of a campaign featuring members of the city watch. I used to write about that idea in Scrollworks and Iridia. I'm convinced that it would make a nice, 12 session mini-campaign.
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TenkarJuly 2, 2010 at 9:07 PM
The Adventurer class is versatile and fairly self reliant w/o being overpowered... good solo type class I think, or City Watchman.

If you ever get the itch again Chris, let me know. I'll be glad to throw my 2 bits your way ;)
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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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Friday, July 2, 2010

The Adventurer - For Those 3d6 in Order Games

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