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Tuesday, June 10, 2014

Bundle of Holding - Eclipse Phase

This is a short term Bundle of Holding, as it only went up yesterday and as I post this, it has 42 hours left.

Eclipse Phase is a sci-fi game of "transhumanity". I own the original PDF and it's a beautiful book - it's just that I'll never play it with my group. Trust me. If I thought I would get use out of the materials in this bundle in the next few years, I'd be all over this.

You, however, might be in position to get use out of the Eclipse Phase bundle. If so, go forth and enjoy a well designed and well written sci-fi RPG.

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Doctor FuturityJune 10, 2014 at 5:56 PM
I bought Eclipse Phase in print....I found it very dry reading, couldn't get in to it. But it is a very nice looking game, that's for sure!
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jedavisJune 11, 2014 at 6:27 PM
I picked this up through BoH last night and hoooly shit. I've wanted to run this campaign using Traveller for years, and just hadn't put it all together yet.

I have yet to get to any of the system's mechanical bits, though...
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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, June 10, 2014

Bundle of Holding - Eclipse Phase

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