Tenkar's Tavern: Kickstarter - Tabletop Gaming Maps Print On Demand! Starting at just $10!

Sunday, April 23, 2017

Kickstarter - Tabletop Gaming Maps Print On Demand! Starting at just $10!

To tell the truth, if you had asked me a year ago if I thought there was a market for print on demand gaming maps, I would have laughed at the idea. The problem is, my vision would have been obscured by years of ONLY gaming via VTTs (excluding con play). I would have missed the forest for the trees, as most VTT gaming uses tabletop maps, but on the screen.

Now, after a solid six months of gaming at Legendary Realms out on Long Island I truly appreciate what a good gaming map can add to your RPG sessions.

Tabletop Gaming Maps Print On Demand! fills a niche at an affordable price point.

I'm really interested in seeing how well this funds. I think the market for this is potentially huge.

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Charles SaegerApril 23, 2017 at 10:56 AM
Alright, where's the entrance(s) for the posted map? I can see how Tucker's Kobolds get around in it, and slip out, but I'm totally missing how murder hobos get into that.
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ChristianApril 24, 2017 at 9:32 AM
Is there a level just to pledge for PDFs?
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herucaApril 24, 2017 at 9:36 AM
I think the market for this could be pretty large, considering that MapForge, World Engine, and DungeonFog have all recently funded on Kickstarter (all 3 are map-making programs that allow for the creation of print-resolution maps). That's going to mean thousands of RPG cartographers in need of an inexpensive large-format printing solution.
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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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Sunday, April 23, 2017

Kickstarter - Tabletop Gaming Maps Print On Demand! Starting at just $10!

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