Tenkar's Tavern: My Latest Lulu Purchases - Anomalous Subsurface Environment and Deviant Databse

Saturday, October 13, 2012

My Latest Lulu Purchases - Anomalous Subsurface Environment and Deviant Databse

Does anyone make a purchase at Lulu WITHOUT using a coupon? A simple google search usually finds me one that gives anywhere from 15-25% off. I never buy at Lulu without trimming something off of the end ;)

My latest purchases are the Deviant Database for The Savage Afterworld / Mutant Future. It was half off for a copule of hours earlier this week, and I figured it was as god a time as any to grab it. I don't generally run post apoc games, but if I did it would be using Mutant Future in all probability. If nothing else, it gives me a book worth of oddities to throw into an OSR session or two.

The other purchase as Anomalous Subsurface Environment in in soft cover, lower crade papr and it looks damn fine. I already have the PDF, and in some sense, this is a post apoc setting using Labyrinth Lord as it's core.

At least by pushing off my LL session to the end of the month I should have the time to get to know the source material.

Fun times :)

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Tim SniderOctober 13, 2012 at 12:58 PM
Thanks for picking up DD. Hope you get some use out of it at your gaming table. And you'll really like ASE as well. One of my favorites.
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McWiegOctober 13, 2012 at 12:59 PM
Yeah, I think all of my Lulu purchases have been coupon purchases.

I bought ASE last summer at KantCon from the Black Blade Publishing booth. I haven't had a chance to run it, but I really want to some day.

Isn't ASE supposed to be the first in a series?
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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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Saturday, October 13, 2012

My Latest Lulu Purchases - Anomalous Subsurface Environment and Deviant Databse

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