Tenkar's Tavern: RPGNow / DriveThruRPG GM Sale Thru March 7th

Friday, March 2, 2012

RPGNow / DriveThruRPG GM Sale Thru March 7th - Friday Highlights

As long as the GM sale is going on, I'll be mentioning some of my favorites that are on sale. Today I'm looking at the following:

Red Tide: Campaign Sourcebook and Sandbox Toolkit - A Labyrinth Lord sourcebook with an asiatic theme, my favorite part is the random tables, from Room Dressing to NPC generation. There's a lot of meat here for 5.99

Lesserton & Mor - another sandbox campaign setting for Labyrinth Lord (but as we all know, easily convertible to other OSR systems), this one gives you both the town for your party's base and the nearby ruins of Mor. 12 bucks.

The Grinding Gear - probably the best adventure that James Raggi has written to date. The Grinding Gear back in December of '09, and I summed it up as a (barely) survivable Tomb of Horrors. It still hold up as one of Raggi's best. Heck, one of the OSR's best adventures. 4.50

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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, March 2, 2012

RPGNow / DriveThruRPG GM Sale Thru March 7th - Friday Highlights

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