Tenkar's Tavern: Reaper's Bones 2 Kickstarter is Live!

Tuesday, October 1, 2013

Reaper's Bones 2 Kickstarter is Live!

Here's the current loot for Bones 2:

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Bob PortnellOctober 1, 2013 at 4:25 PM
And apparently going to blow through the entire stretch goal map on the first day. Amazing.
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Stuart K.October 1, 2013 at 7:16 PM
Second note: I really, really like the way they did limited "shipping wave" tiers to manage expectations/huge success. Very smart idea.
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AnonymousOctober 2, 2013 at 4:02 AM
Uggh! What do these people think, I paint minis all day long.

I have about 60 Otherworld sitting around waiting.

A ton of 6mm Napoleonic.

A bunch of West ENd Star Wars minis for that battle game I "really" needed

The Myth KS super set when it gets here.

A crap load of 15mm fantasy armies.

Arrrgh!!
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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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Tuesday, October 1, 2013

Reaper's Bones 2 Kickstarter is Live!

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