Tenkar's Tavern: Jeff Dee's Kickstarter - Recreating the Melnibonean Artwork From Deities & Demigods

Thursday, April 12, 2012

Jeff Dee's Kickstarter - Recreating the Melnibonean Artwork From Deities & Demigods

I really, really, really need to stay away from Kickstarter. There is just way too much cool shit to be had, especially if you are a gamer or tech geek or both.

Monte Cook turned me on to Jeff's latest project earlier tonight on G+ and I figured I had to share it also.

Nearly all of Jeff Dee's early work for TSR was thrown out by the company, so Jeff is redoing the missing artwork and selling signed prints. I loved Elric and Stormbringer (heck, almost all of the Eternal Champion series) so Recreating the Melnibonean Art is a no brainer for me. The only question is do I up my amount to get an original piece of art and not just a signed print.

Oh, and those that pledge $45 or more get a recreated print of Lolth in Amber from D3 (that's the pic above left).

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Matt FinchApril 13, 2012 at 9:24 AM
I wish Jeff luck on this one, although I personally don't have the collector-gene, just the gamer-gene.
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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, April 12, 2012

Jeff Dee's Kickstarter - Recreating the Melnibonean Artwork From Deities & Demigods

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