Tenkar's Tavern: Kickstarter - SURVIVE THIS!! Vigilante City Tabletop Roleplaying Game - Updated Stretch Goal

Tuesday, July 10, 2018

Kickstarter - SURVIVE THIS!! Vigilante City Tabletop Roleplaying Game - Updated Stretch Goal - Spahnnn!

Just a quick note on the new $8k stretch goal for the SURVIVE THIS!! Vigilante City Tabletop Roleplaying Game Kickstarter:

$8000 - NEW STRETCH GOAL!! Complete Adventure written b Ennie & Origin Award Winning Author: James M. Spahn!! LOCKED!! :(

More about James: James M. Spahn is a freelance roleplaying game author and owner/operator of Barrel Rider Games. He served as a contributing author on the ENnie and Origins Award Winning Adventures in Middle-Earth, published by Cubicle 7 Entertainment. His freelance contributions include work on Rocket Age (Why Not Games), The One Ring Roleplaying Game (Cubicle 7 Entertainment), Adventures in Middle-earth (Cubicle 7 Entertainment), The Star Wars Roleplaying Game (Fantasy Flight Games), Swords & Wizardry Continual Light (Triumvirate Tavern Publishing), Swords & Wizardry Light (Frog God Games), and the Lost Lands (Frog God Games) lines of products. Through Barrel Rider Games, he has published dozens of supplements for OSR games from Swords & Wizardry Complete, Swords & Wizardry White Box, Labyrinth Lord, Dungeon Crawl Classics, OSRIC, and Starships & Spacemen. He has also published several complete roleplaying games, including the Three Castles Award nominated The Hero's Journey Fantasy Roleplaying and White Star: White Box Science Fiction Roleplaying Games.

We here at Bloat Games are very excited to add James as a creative contributor to this campaign!

I'm happy for Bloat Games and I'm happy for James.

Currently at $7,664 with 11 days to go. Lets "stretch" James ;)

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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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Tuesday, July 10, 2018

Kickstarter - SURVIVE THIS!! Vigilante City Tabletop Roleplaying Game - Updated Stretch Goal - Spahnnn!

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