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Thursday, August 2, 2012

The One Ring PDFs Are Pulled From RPGNow

Still available in paper - for now...

It appears that all of The One Ring PDFs have been pulled from RPGNow, and it looks like they are unavailable anywhere else.

Yep, it looks like WotC's lawyers have now infected the Tolkien Estate and by extension Cubicle 7. Because, as you well know, offering your product in a digital format means thievery. Which must be why RPGNow does such great business.

This is in addition to Cubicle 7 canceling the GenCon Book release of The One Ring Collection: GenCon 2012 Edition.

No stated details as to the why for either, but with licensed products there are always too many cooks involved in the process.

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Billiam BabbleAugust 5, 2012 at 7:29 AM
What the frak!? :o

Pirating fears? - or the fact that they could no longer justifying very high prices for PDFs. ;)

If anything beautiful PDFs like the One Ring products are a brilliant advert for buying the glossy hardbacks (because they are impossible to print on an inkjet)
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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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The One Ring PDFs Are Pulled From RPGNow

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