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Thursday, January 6, 2011

DCC Did a Job On Me, Now I am a Real Sickie...

What do you get when you cross Goodman Games' upcoming Dungeon Crawl Classics RPG and a Ramones song? A really bad blog post title.

Anyhow, the retro game that isn't a retro game will be released in 11/11, but is available for preorder now. Needless to say I've reserved my copy.

Let me figure out the various editions / iterations of D&D I currently own:

OD&D in the Collector's Box and all the supplements
D&D Holmes
D&D Metzner
D&D Rules Cyclopedia
AD&D 1e
AD&D 2e / with the stupid Skills & Powers books even
D&D 3e
D&D 3.5e
D&D 4e
Hackmaster 1e
Hacmaster Basic
C&C
LL w/ the AEC
S&W
S&W White Box
OSRIC
BFRPG
Dark Dungeons
LotFP Weird Fantasy
(edited for the last 2 entries)

Ack, my head hurts.

No wonder Tunnels & Trolls has my attention these days. It only has 7 editions and minor changes between editions.

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Gratuitous Saxon ViolenceJanuary 6, 2011 at 11:25 AM
I realized my D&D folly a couple months ago when I realized I had 11 versions of it. What did I do, picked up S&W White Box and Complete. And forgot to count Hackmaster Basic.

Now I'm thinking figure out which ones do something different (on a D&D spectrum) and get rid of the rest.
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Carter SolesJanuary 6, 2011 at 11:33 AM
I think the RC re-write is called Dark Dungeons.
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TenkarJanuary 6, 2011 at 12:11 PM
Ah, yes... Dark Dungeons. Danke Carter
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Andreas DavourJanuary 10, 2011 at 1:11 PM
D&D Mentzer edition
D&D B/X edition
AD&D 1e
D&D 3e
Hackmaster Basic (pdf only, a gift)
S&W
S&W White Box
LotFP Weird Fantasy

Yeah, what can you say? I surely don't need another one.

If it weren't so that you have deeper pockets than me I would have had some nice editions of T&T as well. Those I have are:

5th from 1979
7th tin can
7.5th ed.
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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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