Tenkar's Tavern: My Thoughts on Kickstarter

Sunday, November 2, 2014

My Thoughts on Kickstarter - In Pictures

I think I'm going to get some mileage out of BitStrips.

As most of the Kickstarters I support consist of reading material, the above is more accurate than expected.

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PadreNovember 2, 2014 at 7:36 PM
Sweet cartoon! If you haven't seen South Park's opener, it is all about Kickstarter and the Washington Redskins.
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AnonymousNovember 2, 2014 at 7:49 PM
And just out of sight in the left panel is the condom machine... that is out of order... again.
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petespahnNovember 2, 2014 at 8:22 PM
Favorite graffiti on a condom machine at a bar: "Don't buy this gum it tastes like rubber!"
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FlynnkdNovember 2, 2014 at 10:47 PM
The problem to me is that most ksers are used to create a product rather than develop it. I am getting a bit sick of kser that are simply throwing out an idea or a concept and then using the money to sit down for 6 months and actually write the damn thing. I want a finished product that you are going to add artwork to, that you are going to print as soon as you have the money and that I will have in my hands whilst I am still interested in it. Not a year later when I can barely remember why I even backed it.
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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 2, 2014

My Thoughts on Kickstarter - In Pictures

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