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Friday, January 20, 2023

The New "Playtest" OGL 1.2 Survey is Live - Please Give Your Feedback

Yep, the OGL 1.2 "Playtest" Survey is live. I guess they figured "Draft" was a poor label to use after the OGL 1.1 fiasco ;)

Here's the link: https://t.co/75JmccffF1

And here's my closing comment:

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Baron GreystoneJanuary 20, 2023 at 11:38 PM
Nice message. I hope it does some good.
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HJBJanuary 21, 2023 at 4:19 AM
I skipped the license review (not a content creator) and simply thanked them for self identifying as someone not wanting my business after 40 years of being a customer.
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DougJanuary 21, 2023 at 8:31 AM
It appears that this proposed license covers the SRD 5.x, so if I want to continue to create material for 3.x, Pathfinder, S&W . . . tough noogies.

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Dick McGeeJanuary 21, 2023 at 10:47 AM
Done. Won't be read thanks to all the 5 and 1 responses, so I felt free to excoriate them in every comment box. If some poor corporate peon doe actually see them hopefully they'll take my advice and start looking for work in another industry. Heads will roll at both WotC and Hasbro when the shareholders see the full impact of this debacle.
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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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Friday, January 20, 2023

The New "Playtest" OGL 1.2 Survey is Live - Please Give Your Feedback

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