Tenkar's Tavern: Putting Together a List of Swords & Wizardry Light / Continual Light Releases

Sunday, December 10, 2017

Putting Together a List of Swords & Wizardry Light / Continual Light Releases - Add Yours in the Comments

Next weekend will be the two month anniversary of the release of Swords & Wizardry Continual Light. Swords & Wizardry Light released at Gamehole Con in November of 2016.

I know there have been a number of releases and blog postings with support material, variant rules and adventures for SWL / SWCL. I'm looking to put together a page to highlight all that material and I need your help.

In the comments below please add the releases that you know of (with links if possible) I'd like to get this together before the week is out.

Game on! :)

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Josh BeckelhimerDecember 10, 2017 at 8:03 PM
The Siege of Crasmere - http://www.rpgnow.com/product/217255/The-Siege-of-Crasmere
The Horn of Kardos - http://www.rpgnow.com/product/226687/The-Horn-of-Kardos
The Fallen Star - http://www.rpgnow.com/product/218328/The-Fallen-Star
Blood & Villainy - http://fantasticalbeckelhimer.blogspot.com/2017/07/blood-villainy.html
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Chance PhillipsDecember 10, 2017 at 8:13 PM
Is there a particular license to use with S&WCL content, or a particular logo?
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Smokestack JonesDecember 10, 2017 at 8:20 PM
"Next weekend will be the two month anniversary of the release of Swords & Wizardry Continual Light."

You're welcome. ;)
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FrDaveDecember 11, 2017 at 7:23 AM
White Guard Mini-Campaign for SWL:
http://bloodofprokopius.blogspot.com/2017/04/swords-wizardry-appreciation-day-light.html

Zero-level Characters for SWCL:
http://bloodofprokopius.blogspot.com/2017/10/zero-level-characters-for-swcl.html

MMII Inspired Alternate SWCL, Swords & Shapeshifters:
http://bloodofprokopius.blogspot.com/2017/10/swords-shapeshifters.html

FF Inspired Alternate SWCL, Fiends & Falchions:
http://bloodofprokopius.blogspot.com/2017/11/fiends-flachions-swcl.html

Gamma World Inspired Alternate to SWCL, Gene Wars:
http://bloodofprokopius.blogspot.com/2017/11/gene-wars-swcl.html
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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, December 10, 2017

Putting Together a List of Swords & Wizardry Light / Continual Light Releases - Add Yours in the Comments

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