Tenkar's Tavern: Weekend Picks For RPGNow's DM Sale

Sunday, March 4, 2012

Weekend Picks For RPGNow's DM Sale

Well, it's sunday and half the weekend is gone, but it's not too late for weekend picks ;)

Advanced Adventures #1: The Pod-Caverns of the Sinister Shroom - this and pretty much everything else from Expeditious Retreat Press is on sale. The Pod-Caverns is an excellent Old School Adventure that uses the OSRIC system, but is usable with any of the OSR clones.

Dungeon Crawl Classic #0: Legends are Made, Not Born - this and the rest of Goodman Games' assorted products are 25% off for the GM Day Sale. Goodman Games puts out some great Old School adventures.

Fat Dragon Games - whether you are looking for terrain, fold up dungeon walls or a Dice Tower, Fat Dragon has some pretty cool shit. I just wish I had the room to display some of the stuff.

Alright, that's the weekend picks. Back after I nap. Late game last night ;)

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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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