Tenkar's Tavern: Huge Goodman Game Announcement Later This Morning

Saturday, March 25, 2017

Huge Goodman Game Announcement Later This Morning - Gary Con

Goodman Games is making a huge announcement later this morning. Actually, pretty much all of their announcements are huge ;)

I'll try and sneak away from the Frog God Booth and post it here when I have the info.

Did I mention +Harley Stroh is fucking awesome? He is :)

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Diogo NogueiraMarch 25, 2017 at 10:12 AM
Harley is THE MAN! The nicest guy I've ever met and the most awesome game Master I've played with!
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UnknownMarch 25, 2017 at 11:17 AM
I don't even know what the huge announcement is going to be and it's killing me. I need an update ASAP. :)
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Venger SatanisMarch 25, 2017 at 4:45 PM
I didn't even know that was him. He took my money at the DCC booth. Gary Con needs that badge double-sided.
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Luke PMarch 25, 2017 at 8:39 PM
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1409961192/dcc-lankhmar?ref=friends_launched
Was Launched at GaryCon, but also, they have a deal with Wizard of the Coast to release a special reprint and update of some old modules from D&D like B1 & B2 -- Keep on the Borderlands and In Search of the Unknown. They will have multiple versions in it (I guess Keep had like totally different art in its first three-of-nine prints) and then also have 5th Edition support.
<I was able to attend, it was lovely -- there was other stuff too like discussion of Mutant Crawl Classic and why it took 2 years to get Lankhmar done right.
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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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Huge Goodman Game Announcement Later This Morning - Gary Con

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