Tenkar's Tavern: There Are Some Current Sales on "Horror" Type RPG Stuff at RPGNow (LotFP and Goblinoid Games)

Wednesday, February 13, 2013

There Are Some Current Sales on "Horror" Type RPG Stuff at RPGNow (LotFP and Goblinoid Games)

Real quick, as my intestinal fortitude is less it's usual state. The family is fighting off one hell of a stomach bug this week - I guess I picked the right week for vacation - sigh...

+James Raggi is running a sale Death Love Doom to help celebrate Valentine's Day. Yep, only James would put this particular piece on sale this week ;) You can read my original review here. James has it on sale for 99 cents in PDF through Sunday. Not too shabby.

Goblinoid Games is running a $2 sale on Rotworld through the end of February. This ties in to the latest season of the Walking Dead premiering this month. At 2 bucks I may need to snag a copy and review it. Be warned - Rotworld is a built in coupon link, so it drops it in your cart at the $2 price.

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WVMFebruary 14, 2013 at 6:49 PM
See, this is what I like to see. Especially after playing through the Walking Dead game again (The Telltale one). Thanks for posting about this.
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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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Wednesday, February 13, 2013

There Are Some Current Sales on "Horror" Type RPG Stuff at RPGNow (LotFP and Goblinoid Games)

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