Tenkar's Tavern: OSR Sale - 50% off Castle Oldskull line of Releases (Kent David Kelly)

Monday, July 8, 2019

OSR Sale - 50% off Castle Oldskull line of Releases (Kent David Kelly)

I never realized quite simply how many releases there were on the Castle Oldskull imprint until today. Damn impressive. The early history of Dungeons & Dragons? Covered. Charts and tables for your old school game? They are there. Advice and more on adventure design? Enough to keep your campaigns going for generations.

Castle Oldskull is possibly the most prolific and complete series of Old School support material available and its 50% off for the next 5 days. 48 releases in all.

Looks like I've picked up much of this line over the years. Why am I not surprised? heh

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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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Monday, July 8, 2019

OSR Sale - 50% off Castle Oldskull line of Releases (Kent David Kelly)

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