Tenkar's Tavern: Pavis Rises For a Buck (RuneQuest)

Wednesday, July 11, 2012

Pavis Rises For a Buck (RuneQuest)

There is a selection of MRQ 1+2 available for a buck a piece. I mean, at that price, it's hard to go wrong.

My favorite supplements from RQ2 was Pavis and Big Rubble. My God but that was an awesome campaign.

Now that I'm reviewing RQ6, I'm looking to see what Glorantha products are available on the cheap.

Pavis Rises and Glorantha: 2nd Age are both a buck a piece. Written for MRQ2, they should both be highly compatible with RQ6 (and are fully compatible with Legend). A campaign world and a book of adventures for a buck a piece. Hard to beat.

I can tell you what I'll be reviewing next in the RuneQuest line after I finish the RQ6 review. ;)

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DrBargleJuly 12, 2012 at 7:08 AM
Despite having read a bunch of Glorantha stuff, I've never really got my head around the idea of playing in the setting - the role of myth, heroquesting, and the like.
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Erik TenkarJuly 12, 2012 at 12:59 PM
We ran Pavis and Big Rubble as a sandbox - worked well. Didn't worry about the rest except as window dressing ;)
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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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Pavis Rises For a Buck (RuneQuest)

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