Tenkar's Tavern: Mini Review - Creature Compendium - New Big Dragon Games Unlimited)

Friday, April 10, 2015

Mini Review - Creature Compendium - New Big Dragon Games Unlimited)

There is so much I want to say about +Richard LeBlanc 's new Creature Compendium, but words fail me. Instead, I'll let Rich's words speak for both of us:

Stats for 0e/1e and BX? 199 more monsters? All for 2 bucks?

So good. So cool.

Why the hell are you still here? Grab a copy already!

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The Angry MonkApril 10, 2015 at 8:13 PM
Got it!
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Doctor FuturityApril 10, 2015 at 8:31 PM
I'm snagging this and it looks like his D30 books are on sale too.
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WilliamApril 10, 2015 at 8:50 PM
I have copies of everything he has produced, I haven't been sorry for a purchase yet.
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Smokestack JonesApril 11, 2015 at 8:59 AM
I'll throw down. Hopefully he'll be at NTRPG Con with hardcopies.
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JDsivrajApril 11, 2015 at 1:28 PM
darn, after reading the sampe here and the preview at the rpgnow =km goinng to have to pick tnhis up.
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JDsivrajApril 11, 2015 at 1:28 PM
darn, after reading the sampe here and the preview at the rpgnow =km goinng to have to pick tnhis up.
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Doc SavageApril 12, 2015 at 9:59 AM
Gotta love the "filth licker." Wasn't that the slogan for Fox News before they settled on "fair and balanced"?
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Evan EdwardsApril 17, 2015 at 10:24 AM
I'll be running some of these tonight. I just swapped a couple encounters in tonight's dungeon. It is a great value, well worth buying.
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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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Mini Review - Creature Compendium - New Big Dragon Games Unlimited)

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