Tenkar's Tavern: White Star Now Available in Print

Saturday, September 5, 2015

White Star Now Available in Print - Softcover & Hardcover POD

You've been asking for it and now it's finally here.

White Star. In Print!

I had nothing to do with it getting released in print, but as I have the author's softcover proof of White Star, I know how good the print version is.

If you bought the PDF before, you should have an email from RPGNow with a discount code.

Otherwise, you can grab your copy of White Star through The Tavern's affiliate link and help keep the taps flowing ;)

3 comments:

p1r8z0rSeptember 7, 2015 at 1:44 PM
Funny, I haven't received my discount email yet from Rpgnow... perhaps he's running behind getting them out?
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AnonymousSeptember 7, 2015 at 10:09 PM
Neither have I and its holding up me ordering it...not to mention there is no POD option on rpgnow for 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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Saturday, September 5, 2015

White Star Now Available in Print - Softcover & Hardcover POD

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