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Wednesday, May 1, 2024

Bundle of Holding - The Journal of the Travellers' Aid Society

The Journal of the Travellers' Aid Society is an amazing resource for Traveller fans. Each volume runs around 128 pages and the current bundle at Bundle of Holding offers you the first 12 volumes of The Journal of the Travellers' Aid Society from Mongoose for 24.95.

Traveller! This all-new Mongoose JTAS Bundle presents the first 12 volumes of the Journal of the Travellers' Aid Society, the guides for the Traveller tabletop science fiction roleplaying game from Mongoose Publishing. JTAS features articles covering all aspect of the Third Imperium and the Charted Space universe. From strange creatures on distant worlds and playable alien species, to new spacecraft, detailed worlds, patrons and full adventures, the Journal can boost your Mongoose Traveller campaign like a Jump-4 drive.
For just US$24.95 you get all twelve complete volumes of the Mongoose Publishing Journal of the Travellers' Aid Society in our JTAS Collection (retail value $180) as DRM-free ebooks. Here are links to the DriveThruRPG product pages that list highlights of each volume: Journal of the Travellers' Aid Society Volume 1, JTAS V02, V03, V04, V05, V06, V07, V08, V09, V10, V11, and V12.

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Tuesday, April 30, 2024

Humble Comic Bundle - The Witcher & Cyberpunk 2077

I'm a secret comic book junkie, but I no longer have the room, nor the desire, to collect physical comic books. I've pivoted to digital for my comic book reading, and bundles like the current Humble Comic Bundle - The Witcher & Cyberpunk 2077 is EXACTLY what I'm looking for at 19 titles for 18 bucks? Sign me up and take my cash :)

Monday, April 29, 2024

OSR Sale - Hyperborea (AS&SH) Print Books 20% Off!

I know I covered this on the YouTube side yesterday, but I wanted to make sure that The Taverners who don't watch the YouTube channel knew about the 20% off sale going on at hyperborea.tv for the Hyperborea RPG (formerly known as Astonishing Swordsmen & Sorcerors of Hyperborea or AS&SH).

Use code MAYEVE2024 at checkout to save 20%. The offer runs through May 1st, 2024.

If you enjoy swords & sorcery and the OSR in general, Hyperborea should be in your game collection (I have all three editions in mine ;)

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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