Tenkar's Tavern: Doing a Little Research on RPG Kickstarters and Timeliness (or lack there off)

Wednesday, September 26, 2012

Doing a Little Research on RPG Kickstarters and Timeliness (or lack there off)

As I've stated in the past, I've supported way too many Kickstarters and Indiegogo Projects. Most of them are RPG related, and I started researching how well they were at keeping keeping to their estimated delivery dates.

Want to be surprised? Not very well at all.

Probably the only one that's going to hit it's mark is Barrowmaze II, which is due next month (and the PDFs might release as early as this week - technically a month early). Need to give Greg G major props for not being part of the "always late" crowdfunding trend.

So, Dwimmermount is hardly alone in being fashionably late.

I hope to have the post ready for tonight - should be interesting ;)

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Mr. BlueSeptember 26, 2012 at 3:34 PM
"I hope to have the post ready for tonight"

Uh oh, now if it isn't delivered tonight, you'll have all sort of angry emails!
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purestrainhumanSeptember 26, 2012 at 3:40 PM
I was shocked when Shadows of Eseteren arrived on time. Then I was shocked that I was shocked - we've been conditioned to expect these things to be late!
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Erik TenkarSeptember 26, 2012 at 3:58 PM
yes, i might be "fashionably late" ;)
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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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Wednesday, September 26, 2012

Doing a Little Research on RPG Kickstarters and Timeliness (or lack there off)

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