Tenkar's Tavern: It's Free RPG Day 2012 - There Are Some Goodies You Can Get Never Leaving Your House

Saturday, June 16, 2012

It's Free RPG Day 2012 - There Are Some Goodies You Can Get Never Leaving Your House

I don't usually mix well with Free RPG Day. I'm either away for the weekend or stuck with a crapload of weekend responsibilities that I never saw coming. So, this morning I ordered a handful of RPGs that I was interested in from Noble Knight Games and got to choose 1 freebie for each $15 spent. I spent a hair over $60, but I know I'll be getting my DCC Quickstart, Cosmic Patrol Quickstart, Dice Tower and the Warhammer 40K adventure. Not too bad. One of the things I picked up was the Waterdeep Board-game. I've heard good things about it, so it should be a win-win.

Of course, the other option is to wait for the Free RPG Day products to be released at One Book Shelf (or the manufacturers) website. At the moment, one of the Free RPG Day products is up at OBS:

Obsidian Apocalypse: World of Abaddon is available for download at OBS for free. It's for Parthfinder, but I have no doubt it can be converted to other games.

Now, there are other products at OBS that were recently released for free that aren't part of the Free RPG Day promotion, but it doesn't mean you shouldn't grab them:

Trollzine # 5 - If you are a fan of Tunnels & Trolls, this is the fanzine for you.

Golden Age: The Adventurers Guidebook: a 70 page , simple to learn RPG based on an audio play series

When more Free RPG Day items got posted in PDF, I'll add them to the list ;)

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CarlJune 16, 2012 at 10:35 AM
I made my adventure 'The Tribute' free for the entire weekend. You can find it here:

http://rpg.drivethrustuff.com/product/99562/The-Tribute

Enjoy!
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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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It's Free RPG Day 2012 - There Are Some Goodies You Can Get Never Leaving Your House

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