Tenkar's Tavern: Oubliette #8 - Free For a Limted Time (OSR Magazine)

Wednesday, June 20, 2012

Oubliette #8 - Free For a Limted Time (OSR Magazine)

Gold Piece Publications has been releasing the current issues of Oubliette for free for a limited period of time. Issue #8 was just released and is available for free.

I find Oubliette to be a great resource for sandbox styled campaigns, as much of what is included is plop-and-drop in nature. Heck, this issue even includes a small sandbox setting and encounters and locations for it. I'll be using the encounters and locations in my own sandbox - they should transfer over with little if any issues.

Here's the content of the latest issue:

Tales from Hell Cartoon
Editorial
The Maslow Dungeon
Monster Club #14: The Death Gate
The Lands of Ara - Special Feature
Newland Campaign Setting Part III: Factions in the Forest
Monster Club #15: Newland Bestiary Part II
Forest Mini-Adventure: The Kobold & Goblin Resistance
Forest Location: Moot Point
Forest Mini-adventure: The Bloodbeard Bugbears
Forest Mini-adventure: The Burnt Tree Clan
Monster Club #16: Dungeon Random Encounter Tables: Levels 7-8
Goblin Quest Cartoon
Fanzine Frenzy
Found Familiar: The Cat
What's in the Oubliette? Reviews
Mouse Watch Cartoon
The Song of Sithakk Part 8

Warning! Oubliette may contain content that is suitable for adult audiences only. Persons 18+ only.

2 comments:

OublieditorJune 20, 2012 at 7:40 PM
Thank you as always for the mention. The way you are using the adventures is how I think most people use things from zines. When I'm putting them together, I try and design them to be easily lifted and ready to be dropped into other campaigns.
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Erik TenkarJune 20, 2012 at 10:21 PM
Excellent mag as always. The price is insane btw ;)
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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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Oubliette #8 - Free For a Limted Time (OSR Magazine)

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