Tenkar's Tavern: Weekend Buybacks for May 31st

Monday, May 31, 2010

Weekend Buybacks for May 31st

Wow, nearly 11 am and no calls or texts from work. Phew! Time to enjoy the last day of my 3 day weekend ;)

Lets see what buybacks we have for this weekend:

TrollZine #2 from Flying Buffalo: Tunnels and Trolls holds a special place in my personal Golden Age of Gaming. Before MMORPGs or even the Gold Boxes of AD&D from SSI, before the average gamer had access to a computer, Tunnels and Trolls allowed one to game solo. With books and dice. And it was fun! Enjoy this fan created magazine for T&T

The Hounds of Adranos for Fantasy Grounds: Free module for Fantasy Grounds 2. You need the Basic Roleplaying Ruleset to use this (which I have and must say its a beautiful ruleset). It includes tokens and maps.

Dark Dungeons in the D&D Rules Cyclopedia retro-clone. Its a huge beast of a book. If you play any of the D&D retro-clones I'm sure there is stuff you can lift. PDF is free. It is also offered in hard and soft cover versions on Lulu.com.

At 11:18 am I got the call from work. Sigh. They hopefully can handle the problem. Hopefully.

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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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Weekend Buybacks for May 31st

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