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Friday, August 16, 2024

Humble Bundle - Beamdog & Owlcat RPG Masters (Neverwinter, Planescape, Pathfinder, Warhammer 40k& more)

I'm only highlighting the classic D & D titles, available for play on Windows, OSX, and in the case of the classic D & D titles - Linux. Neverwinter is the Enhanced Edition, with 4 adventures included. The $15 bundle also included a fairly complete collection of Pathfinder CRPGs. 35 bucks add in Warhammer 40k Rogue Trader for Windows and OSX (a Dec 2023 release with a 92% rating on Steam. 5 bucks gives you all the D&D titles except for Neverwinter. The $10 bundle includes Neverwinter. Phew! I'm in for 35, as I enjoy the Warhammer 40k universe.

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Saturday, September 7, 2019

Humble Bundle - CRPGs - Pillars of Eternity & More - $4.40

Real quick post. The current Humble Bundle CRPG Bundle offers Pillars of Eternity and more for $4.40. Hard to pass up AND playable on OSX. Damn but I love it when good games show up for OSX.

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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, August 16, 2024

Humble Bundle - Beamdog & Owlcat RPG Masters (Neverwinter, Planescape, Pathfinder, Warhammer 40k& more)

Saturday, September 7, 2019

Humble Bundle - CRPGs - Pillars of Eternity & More - $4.40

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