Tenkar's Tavern: Go for the eyes Boo, GO FOR THE EYES!! RrraaaAAGHGHH!!!

Saturday, December 3, 2011

Go for the eyes Boo, GO FOR THE EYES!! RrraaaAAGHGHH!!!

If you are looking for a gift for yourself, you can't do much better then the Dungeons & Dragons Classic Anthology of computer games. For less then 20 bucks, i get to replay Baldur's Gate 1 + 2 (and all the expansions), Icewind Dale 1 + 2, Plansescape Torment (one of the best computer RPGs of all time and Temple of Elemental Evil (i never finished it the first time - this time I'll instal the community hack right from the start).

I guess the old SSI GoldBox games would be the true originals of D&D computer gaming (and I did love them) but Baldur's Gate was amazingly addictive. I really need to take some sick time off from work. Haven't done so in over 4 years and it would make for some great computer gaming time ;)

They've also put out a collection of all the Neverwinter 1 + 2 games and add ons. That runs 29 bucks. Great stuff there too, and I picked up both collections already, but I think I need to revisit Baldur's Gate first.

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kelvingreenDecember 3, 2011 at 1:38 PM
That's a great collection. Planescape: Torment and Baldur's Gate II would be worth the price alone.
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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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Saturday, December 3, 2011

Go for the eyes Boo, GO FOR THE EYES!! RrraaaAAGHGHH!!!

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