Tenkar's Tavern: My 50% Off Hardcover Purchases at Lulu

Sunday, November 23, 2014

My 50% Off Hardcover Purchases at Lulu

I did the deed this morning and ordered a bunch of hard cover RPG goodies. Take 50% off the prices you see above. Later I need to make my softcover purchases at 35% off ;)

50% off hardcovers (HC50) until midnight on Nov, 24, 2014

35% of through Dec 2, 2014 for those that use the coupon code SAVE35 (this applies to all Lulu-ness)

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UnknownNovember 23, 2014 at 5:01 PM
yep, a great offer!
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Peter DNovember 23, 2014 at 9:43 PM
I ordered the S&W monster book. If S&W complete was available, I'd have added that, too. White Box seems nice, but since we don't play that, I don't really need it.
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Peter FröhlichNovember 23, 2014 at 10:22 PM
The softcovers: ASE 1-3. The hardcovers: Fantastic Heroes & Witchery, Barbarians of Lemuria, and Blood & Treasure Complete. Lots of Christmas reading thanks to this sale.
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Stu OrdanaNovember 24, 2014 at 9:55 PM
I ordered Mutant Future and Dark Dungeons. I was also looking at Starships & Spacemen but limited funds so it will have to wait.

Thanks for the update.
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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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Sunday, November 23, 2014

My 50% Off Hardcover Purchases at Lulu

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