Tenkar's Tavern: 50% Off All Razor Coast Titles! Talk Like a Pirate Day! Arrrrrrr! (Frog God Games)

Sunday, September 18, 2016

50% Off All Razor Coast Titles! Talk Like a Pirate Day! Arrrrrrr! (Frog God Games)

Frog God is offering 50% off it's Razor Coast titles through 9/19.

While I haven't had a chance to run it, I've read the core adventure and it has months of gaming potential within.

Disclosure: Although I worked on Swords & Wizardry Light for Frog God Games, it was a labor of love for the community. I do not receive a salary or any other sort of compensation from Frog God Games. I just happen to like their shit :)

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Emmett Fitz-HumeSeptember 18, 2016 at 9:59 AM
Not being familiar with Swords and Wizardry, I'm guessing that it would be easier than Pathfinder to convert to either BFRPG or 5E (my group's preferred systems)?
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QuozlSeptember 18, 2016 at 10:10 AM
It would be trivial to convert S&W to BFRPG. And converting it to 5E would be much the same as converting BFRPG to 5E.
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Emmett Fitz-HumeSeptember 18, 2016 at 10:12 AM
Thanks!
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Emmett Fitz-HumeSeptember 18, 2016 at 10:13 AM
Been waiting about a year to buy Razor Coast but couldn't afford it. But today...

YES!!!
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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 (thank you Kickstarter) (edit) BOTH editions of LotFP's Weird Fantasy and will soon have some dead tree copies of the Greyhawk Grognards Adventures Dark & Deep ~~shipping shortly~~ in my grubby hands awaiting a review..

I am so deep in the OSR when I come up for breath it's for the OSR's cousin, Tunnels & Trolls (and still waiting on dT&T to ship).

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 48, simplicity and flexibility while remaining true to the feel of the original is an OSR hat trick for me ;)

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Sunday, September 18, 2016

50% Off All Razor Coast Titles! Talk Like a Pirate Day! Arrrrrrr! (Frog God Games)

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