Tenkar's Tavern: On the Ninth Day of free Holiday Swag, My Bartender Gave to Meeeeeee... The Hounds of Adranos for Runequest.

Thursday, December 1, 2011

On the Ninth Day of free Holiday Swag, My Bartender Gave to Meeeeeee... The Hounds of Adranos for Runequest.

Being that I brought your attention to Mongoose's Legend RPG, a reworking and fully compatible reimaging of the Mongoose RuneQuest RPG (alas, no license lasts forever in gaming) earlier today, I now bring you the free adventure: The Hounds of Adranos for RuneQuest (Legend).

Legend RPG? A Buck

The Hounds of Adranos? Free

A fun and successful gaming session? Priceless

From the blurb:

The Hounds of Adranos is an adventure for RuneQuest Fantasy Earth. Recommended as an add-on for Alephtar Games setting Stupor Mundi, it can also be played with the core RuneQuest rulebook alone.

This scenario includes:

- twelve pages of action-packed adventure

- full stats for all NPCs and monsters

- cardboard figures for all characters in the adventure

- cardboard figures for all Stupor Mundi recommended Player Characters

- two full-color maps of the Adranon dungeons

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賈尼December 2, 2011 at 4:11 AM
For precision's sake: "Legend" is the new name of MRQII, and "Hounds of Adranos" was written for MRQI. But obviously the compatibilty between MRQI and MRQII is high.
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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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Thursday, December 1, 2011

On the Ninth Day of free Holiday Swag, My Bartender Gave to Meeeeeee... The Hounds of Adranos for Runequest.

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