Tenkar's Tavern: When Your Quest is Dragons, You Need DragonQuest!

Thursday, October 27, 2011

When Your Quest is Dragons, You Need DragonQuest!

Yep, i snagged myself a copy of the DragonQuest 3e rulebook on Ebay, and I should have a boxed set coming from Troll & Toad. Really, why should I let Padre have all the fun? heh

It is in many ways the exact opposite of the Pathfinder Beginner Box, but that's okay. I probably won't have time to give DragonQuest a real look until after my wedding, but as that's in a week and a half. I plan on lots of reading and relaxing after the wedding ;)

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JagataiOctober 28, 2011 at 9:40 AM
DragonQuest was the go-to game for my best friend's dad, he was a hardcore wargamer from the dawn of time and he really wanted us to love that game when we were kids. We humored him and played a few times, but we really wanted to play D&D because everyone played D&D, everyone knew how to play D&D and there was more stuff for D&D. Still, I concede his point, it is a better, more logical simulationist system than D&D; but that's not really what D&D was trying to be, that's the point he missed. He went on to try to develop the perfect FRPG for decades afterwards, for all I know he still is.
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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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Thursday, October 27, 2011

When Your Quest is Dragons, You Need DragonQuest!

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