Tenkar's Tavern: First Wayward Kickstarter Picked - Kingdom: A Pen & Paper Space Exploration RPG

Monday, January 7, 2013

First Wayward Kickstarter Picked - Kingdom: A Pen & Paper Space Exploration RPG

With the $20 in funds available, I've decided to "Kick In" to Kingdom: A Pen & Paper Space Exploration RPG at the $10 level.

The reasons are as follows:

The art fucking rocks!

It's Space Exploration.

You can opt for quarterly updates for a year (10 bucks extra - damn tempting)

You can get the PDF for 10 bucks (very low buy in)

Did I mention the awesome art?

10 bucks still left in the fund - I may just put them in for a year of quarterly updates unless someone has another suggestion.

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AnonymousJanuary 7, 2013 at 11:59 AM
Nice artwork indeed! I'm no sci-fi fan, but that looks the part 100%
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KristianHJanuary 7, 2013 at 4:26 PM
Hi Tenkar,

regarding Kickstarter there is an article at Geek native: e20 RPG Kickstarter failure results in complaint to Texas State Attorney General. Thought you might be interested

Link: http://www.geeknative.com/36183/e20-rpg-kickstarter-failure-results-in-complaint-to-texas-state-attorney-general/
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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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Monday, January 7, 2013

First Wayward Kickstarter Picked - Kingdom: A Pen & Paper Space Exploration RPG

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