Tenkar's Tavern: I Finally Have Dwimmermount - er, I Mean "DEVILMOUNT" in Hand ;)

Saturday, March 16, 2013

I Finally Have Dwimmermount - er, I Mean "DEVILMOUNT" in Hand ;)

Dwimmermount may never see the light of day as a printed product, but it's dark and twisted doppleganger appeared on my doorstep today when I was out eating some Fish & Chips for St. Pat's weekend.

With DEVILMOUNT, I may not even miss the original. I'll certainly miss the money I apparently have pissed away on the fucker, but that's a whole different story.

On a very quick scan, I failed to find 9 rats and 2,000 Coppers. I'm not sure if that makes me happy or sad.

I may well run the first level of this using the Swords & Wizardry rules sometime in the next few weeks. If I do, I'll put out the recruitment call for players.

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AnonymousMarch 16, 2013 at 8:21 PM
How do you get that...?!
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Brutorz BillMarch 16, 2013 at 8:46 PM
Looking forward to mine coming in the mail also! I think S&W will be a great fit for it!
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Gothridge ManorMarch 16, 2013 at 9:50 PM
Waiting on mine also Erik! How do you always get yours before me?
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TenkarMarch 16, 2013 at 9:54 PM
NYC Postal Service must rock ;)
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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, March 16, 2013

I Finally Have Dwimmermount - er, I Mean "DEVILMOUNT" in Hand ;)

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