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Thursday, April 29, 2010

Geek Anticiation - Awaiting the iPad 3G

Yep. I've gone off the deep end of Apple Geekdom. I was doing OK until December of 2008, when my son convinced me to get iPhones. Then there was the Macbook this past fall. Now I await tomorrow's iPad delivery.

I'm excited for the techie geekness of it, but I'm even more excited with ability to read my PDFs in a native format. Don't get me wrong, I've enjoyed reading most of the RPG PDfs I've placed on my Kindle DX, but the iPad should blow that away.

I fully expect tomorrow's posting will be a review of the suitability of the iPad to read PDFs. Probably a quick review of some appropriate PDF reading apps. Some pics of the iPad with some PDFs displayed.

I never wanted to turn into an Apple fanboy. Really I didn't.

I even took off from work to ensure someone would be there to sign for the package.

I'll go to my corner now...

(then I'll go back to the VTT reviews and such... might be doing a Q&A with someone involved with MapTools - look Ma, I'm a professional! ;)

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Norman HarmanApril 30, 2010 at 6:15 AM
> I fully expect tomorrow's posting will be a review of the suitability of the iPad to read PDFs.

Looking forward to that. Being able to read my color game PDF's fully, quickly navigate, with bookmarks, etc. is my main tablet requirement.

Still kind of think iPad is too small, really want 8.5x11" screen.
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Tim ShortsApril 30, 2010 at 7:27 AM
hehe, have fun with it and let us know how it goes.
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Clovis CithogApril 30, 2010 at 9:21 PM
i got my girlfriend an ipad for her birthday,
she loves it . . .
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ze buletteMay 1, 2010 at 12:53 AM
i've only played with one a little bit, but i'm fine with the size, given my love for the 6x9 LBBs (OD&D and Traveller)..
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TenkarMay 1, 2010 at 11:46 AM
Posting to come tonight. Hint... It's damn nice ;)
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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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