Tenkar's Tavern: Hackmaster 5e Basic Priced at 5 For $25

Friday, March 30, 2012

Hackmaster 5e Basic Priced at 5 For $25

James over at Grognardia mentioned this yesterday, but just in case you missed it:

KenzerCo is offering the Hackmaster Basic Rulebook as a set of 5 for $25 (plus $11 shipping and handling here in the states).

I've had the book since it's release back in 2010(?) and although I don't plan on running a straight Hackmaster game, there are bit's and pieces for me to steal for the OSR style games I plan on running. Normally it's $19.99 a copy, so for an extra $5.01 you get 4 extra copies for your group. Not bad at all.

I ordered a set for the next Gathering of Fools, which should be coming up in a month or so with my old gaming group. I always like to bring gaming goodies ;)

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Brutorz BillMarch 31, 2012 at 11:08 AM
I tried this game out when it first came out, but it just didn't do it for me. Hope you have more success. : )
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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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Hackmaster 5e Basic Priced at 5 For $25

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