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Thursday, April 28, 2016

Free! Fantasy Stock Art (what it says on the tin)

Is it free or is it PWYW? I'm going to go with "free" with a tip jar.

Free or PWYW, the Free! Fantasy Stock Art offering from Axebane Games / Daniel F. Walthall is well worth your time to download if you publish, blog, need some visuals of weapons or other items for your weekly game.

Here's a few samples:

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Steve MillerApril 29, 2016 at 12:23 AM
The entire package looks nice. Unless this month looks like as bad as I think it's going to be sales-wise (and I'm not holding out hope for the next couple days), I'll be tossing some money into his "tipjar" and putting the illos in my stockpile of art for future use.

(I might just toss him some money anyway, because I can see an immediate use for two of the illos already. I'll just have to see how tight my pocket feels.)
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ThrowiGamesApril 29, 2016 at 9:14 AM
Just bought this as well. I love to support stock artists!
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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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Thursday, April 28, 2016

Free! Fantasy Stock Art (what it says on the tin)

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