Tenkar's Tavern: Deal of the Day - WARPLAND (Sci-Fantasy OSR Setting/OSR Rules)

Wednesday, January 12, 2022

Deal of the Day - WARPLAND (Sci-Fantasy OSR Setting/OSR Rules)

Back to back OSR deals as Deal of the Day at DTRPG. What's going on? Not that I'm complaining ;)

This time the Deal of the Day is WARPLAND, and the deal being offered is a big one. Normally WARPLAND is 8.50 n PDF, but until tomorrow morning WARPLAND is on sale for 1.70 - 80% off!

Another future review...

An original dark sci-fantasy setting by Gavriel Quiroga, creator of the critically acclaimed Neurocity.
Enter the Land of the Warp at your own risk! A dark world where technology and science are anathema and dark magick is just being discovered!
This is the 1.1 corrected final version of the corebook. 150 pages of pure lysergic visuals! Almost 30 random tables for a sandbox approach! A fully inmersive setting 1500% funded through Kickstarter! A symmetric (8.5 x 8.5) beauty of an artbook!

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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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Wednesday, January 12, 2022

Deal of the Day - WARPLAND (Sci-Fantasy OSR Setting/OSR Rules)

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