Tenkar's Tavern: Bundle of Holding - Dragongrin (5e setting and campaign)

Saturday, June 10, 2023

Bundle of Holding - Dragongrin (5e setting and campaign)

I really like dark fantasy settings. Even if I never run them, or I don't run the system they are built on, I can pull pieces out for my own campaign. I hadn't heard of Dragongrim prior to seeing it on Bundle of Holding, but at 14.95, even though it's for 5e, I find it very tempting.

Adventurer! This Dragongrin Quick Deal presents A Dead Man's Guide to Dragongrin, the tabletop dark-fantasy roleplaying campaign setting from Absolute Tabletop for Dungeons & Dragons Fifth Edition and compatible rules systems. Evil reigns in the realm of Dragongrin, where once-free lands kneel to the Dismembered Lord and his tyrannical Lords of Ash. Only a few embattled heroes still oppose his dominion. With A Dead Man's Guide to Dragongrin, a comprehensive campaign setting guide and worldbuilding toolkit, you can forge your legend.
This all-new Quick Deal gives you the entire Dragongrin line for an unbeatable bargain price. For just US$14.95 you get all seven titles in our Dragongrin Collection (retail value $76) as DRM-free ebooks, including the complete 471-page campaign corebook, A Dead Man's Guide to Dragongrin (plus the pay-what-you-want Character Creation Kit); four supplements – The Copper Jackals, Deepvault: Machinations of the Ancients, The Trapsmiths of Dragongrin, and The Tieflings of Dragongrin; and two other 5E Adventure Kits: Shadows Over Driftchapel and Oath of the Frozen King.

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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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