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Wednesday, January 12, 2011

Serenity RPG License Coming to an End

Margaret Weis Productions' license to produce and distribute Serenity (aka Firefly) is coming to an end on January 31st. You can pick up a full set of the RPG books in deadtree for $100 bucks at their site, or you can pick it up piecemeal in PDF over at RPGNow.

I'm sure it will remain on shelves of game stores for a bit, but the PDFs at RPGNow will be coming to an end on January 31st.

I loved the TV series and enjoyed the movie. I haven't really checked out the game. I'm pretty sure I'd never have a chance to play it, but if the rpg books make for good reading I'm all in. The prices seem fairly reasonable on RPGNow for the line.

Anyone have Serenity already and can offer some advice? Is it worth picking up just to flesh out what I've already watched on my TV screen?

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Carter SolesJanuary 12, 2011 at 10:19 PM
I played it briefly a few years ago as a PC, but I am notoriously bad at memorizing rules mechanics etc. so I can't really speak to that. We had a great deal of fun playing it, though -- it's a fun universe to play around in. I played a heavy weapons guy kind of like the Stephen Baldwin character from the show.
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Geek GazetteJanuary 13, 2011 at 1:01 AM
I ran a short campaign and a few one shots back when it first came out and we had a lot of fun. My next group only wanted to play sword and sorcery type fantasy rpgs so I haven't really had the chance to run Serenity for a while. It is a shame too because I've been itchin' to use my BSG book and have Mal's crew go up against some Cylons.
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Geek GazetteJanuary 13, 2011 at 1:02 AM
I thought the Serenity books I own were pretty good reads, so I'd recommend picking them up.
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ArmChairGeneralJanuary 13, 2011 at 8:37 AM
It's a fun game engine with simple rules. I enjoyed it.
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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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