Tenkar's Tavern: RPGNow / DriveThruRPG GM Sale Thru March 7th

Thursday, March 1, 2012

RPGNow / DriveThruRPG GM Sale Thru March 7th

OneBookShelf / RPGNow / DriveThruRPG is running a GM sale thru March 7th, giving you a 25% discount on literally thousands of PDFs.

So, do you plan on looking at thousands of pages of websites to find your bargains? I do, but you might not want to, so I'm going to point out my favorites over the next few days. Here's my picks for today:

Toys For the Sandbox line of of short adventures - they were a bargain at 99 cents a piece, they are now a low 52 cents each! You can't beat that price.

Legend - Mongoose RuneQuest 2 with the serial numbers scratched off, this was a steal at a buck. It's now 75 cents. The rest of the line is on sale too.

Designers & Dragons - an awesome write up of the history of the role playing industry. This is where you splurge if you are going to. The regular price is 29.99 - it's on sale for 22.75. It still isn't cheap, but I've been enjoying catching up on industry history.

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BarratariaMarch 1, 2012 at 6:39 PM
Thanks for posting this, I hadn't heard about 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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