Tenkar's Tavern: A Kickstarter That Shipped Late - Race to Adventure Board Game (Evil Hat)

Wednesday, April 10, 2013

A Kickstarter That Shipped Late - Race to Adventure Board Game (Evil Hat)

Race to Adventure was due in December but got delayed due to some printing issues and product safety issues. We were kept pretty well informed of the issues as they occurred so it doesn't seem THAT late.

Depending on how the weekend shakes out, we may try to give this a go at the Tenkar household.

I must say this tho, the box is much smaller than I expected. It's fairly deep and well stuffed, but the box is literally half the size of Fatastiqa Kickstarter. It may suffer from size envy on the store shelves ;)

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FredApril 11, 2013 at 3:11 PM
The front cover is about the same dimensions as Spirit of the Century, the RPG that shares the same setting. :)
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FlynnkdApril 12, 2013 at 1:06 AM
I've played the game and it was fun, easy to learn. I would like to see a version of the rules that includes the expansions into one bigger game somehow, hate seeing those tiles sitting in the box unused.
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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, April 10, 2013

A Kickstarter That Shipped Late - Race to Adventure Board Game (Evil Hat)

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