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Wednesday, June 28, 2023

Bundle of Holding - Dork Tower

I remember Dork Tower quite fondly going back to the Shadis days. What else can I say other than for me, this is an instant buy :)

The Dork Tower Bundle is 14.95 on Bundle of Holding for the next week.

Adventurer! Give in to the dork side with this all-new Dork Tower Quick Deal featuring .PDF ebooks of Dork Tower, the fan-favorite webcomic by John Kovalic (Munchkin, Apples to Apples) about five gamers and the worlds they create, the games they play, the tech they abuse and misuse, and the conventions they road-trip to – a comic for everybody, geeks or otherwise. The big graphic albums in this all-new Dork Tower Quick Deal from Dork Storm Press have together sold more than half a million copies. Get them all now in .PDF for an unbeatable bargain price.
For just US$14.95 you get all nine complete graphic albums in our Dork Collection (retail value $90) as DRM-free ebooks, including Dork Covenant, Dork Shadows, Heart of Dorkness, Livin' La Vida Dorka, Understanding Gamers, 1d6 Degrees of Separation, Dork Side of the Goon, and Go, Dork, Go!, as well as a full-color compilation of early Shadis and Dragon strips, Dork Decade.

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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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