Tenkar's Tavern: Deal of the Day - Dungeons & Dragons Forgotten Realms Classics Vol. 1 (Comic)

Thursday, November 10, 2016

Deal of the Day - Dungeons & Dragons Forgotten Realms Classics Vol. 1 (Comic)

Today's Deal of the Day is a comic book. More accurately, its the first eight issues of Dungeons & Dragons Forgotten Realms Classics Vol. 1.

Coming in at 210 page, this graphic novel is $2.99 (normally $4.99) for the next 17 hours or so.

Comes in both PDF and EPUB versions.

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Smokestack JonesNovember 10, 2016 at 6:06 PM
I picked up that volume (along with the Dungeons and Dragons Classics) while on vacation this summer and they're fantastic. My only complaint is that the FR comics didn't include AD&D 1E stats for the issue's characters, monsters and magic items like the D&D series did. I've been looking for the other volumes in stores since. Guess I'll have to go online.
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David FisherNovember 10, 2016 at 8:15 PM
Have the original print series for FR and AD&D. Loved reading these back in the day - Jeff Grubb told some great stories although the Tarrasque story was a bit meh due to the attempts to tell some of the tale without any dialogue.
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Todd McGowanNovember 10, 2016 at 9:42 PM
I pulled out the original issues of the AD&D comic from my collection just last week to show two of my grandsons. I'll have to track down my FR issues as well!
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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, November 10, 2016

Deal of the Day - Dungeons & Dragons Forgotten Realms Classics Vol. 1 (Comic)

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