Tenkar's Tavern: Kickstarter - Game of Dragons - Trial 4 (If at first you DON'T succeed, try, try again...)

Friday, February 3, 2017

Kickstarter - Game of Dragons - Trial 4 (If at first you DON'T succeed, try, try again...)

When I was looking through Kickstarter just before I thought to myself: "Game of Dragons looks damn familiar" and sure enough, it was. This is the FIFTH attempt to fund it. Safe to say there with be a Sixth, because this attempt won't be successful either.

There needs to come a point where you say to yourself: "Maybe I need to let this one go..."

Here's the pitch:

Game of Dragons - Funding unsuccessfully since August 2015! Why tie up your money in projects that fund and never deliver. Here are Game of Dragons, you can back our projects and never be out a dime. We don't deliver, but we don't take your money either. So, pledge and feel part of the project - for the fifth time! Help us not reach our goal of $50K!

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Stu OrdanaFebruary 3, 2017 at 1:59 PM
So it is a Fantasy themed RPG Card ON THE COMPUTER Game? Yeah...no.
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Scott JenksFebruary 4, 2017 at 8:02 AM
Yeah they never actually say it is a computer game, poor messaging. it is much better that they set a realistic funding goal and not fund than low ball it and fund without enough resources to accomplish the project. No harm, no foul, in trying but yeah the market has spoken.

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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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Friday, February 3, 2017

Kickstarter - Game of Dragons - Trial 4 (If at first you DON'T succeed, try, try again...)

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