Tenkar's Tavern: The Classic "Temple of Elemental Evil" for FREE at D&D Classics (AD&D)

Thursday, September 19, 2013

The Classic "Temple of Elemental Evil" for FREE at D&D Classics (AD&D)

Yep, Temple of Elemental Evil is FREE at the D&D Classics web store until September 28th.

How good are the scans? Damn if I know, as I can't get the fucker to download ;) Still, the price is right, and once it's in my online collection I can always download it later - assuming WotC doesn't pull all of it's products like it did in the past...

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DesaSeptember 19, 2013 at 7:50 PM
Scans are pretty good. Bookmarking needs a little help on this one, but the actual pages are the clearest I've seen of the DnDClassics of the pre-third stuff.
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Gothridge ManorSeptember 19, 2013 at 8:52 PM
I picked up my copy earlier. I know when I was a young'n I waited for this damn module forever.
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AnonymousSeptember 19, 2013 at 10:57 PM
Downloaded here OK. Also if you have an RPGNow account the log-ons are the same. Scans looked good here too.
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BrunoSeptember 20, 2013 at 3:07 AM
Thanks for pointing it out! Bit by bit, Wizards is making up for past mistakes.
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Justin S. DavisSeptember 20, 2013 at 5:22 AM
Yeah, thank you! Would've missed this otherwise.
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SimonSeptember 20, 2013 at 9:28 AM
Looks fine. Nice to have this at last though it doesn't look all that inspiring TBH - no art in the Hommlet section is a pity.
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AnonymousSeptember 20, 2013 at 1:47 PM
Thanks! I'd have missed this!
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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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Thursday, September 19, 2013

The Classic "Temple of Elemental Evil" for FREE at D&D Classics (AD&D)

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