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Friday, March 8, 2013

F' Me - I Somehow Missed That the Sine Nomine PDFs Are 25% Off

I have no idea how I missed this. Well, yes I do, as there is a shitload of stuff on sale for the RPGNow GM's sale.

The most recent product put out by Sine Nomine is Spears of the Dawn (one of the best run Kickstarters I've supported, if not "the' best). Normally 10 bucks, it's $7.49 for the next 4 days. It an African themed fantasy RPG and very well done. I should be in a twice a month campaign as a player (go figure), so I'll let you know how it plays in real life, but it's on sale now.

Red Tide (campaign sourcebook and sandbox toolkit) can be had for $5.99 in PDF. I liked this enough to grab it in hardcover. Tables and setting. Good stuff.

Stars Without Number: Free Edition is still free. If you grab nothing else, grab this. It's probably the best OSR styled Sci-Fi ruleset out there. Remember, 25% off of free is still free ;)

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TomMarch 8, 2013 at 11:12 PM
I just bought Spears and the print/PDF of Stars. I haven't had time to read them yet, but the offer was too good. I have had the Stars free rules and mined so much from them I just had to get a print copy.
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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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Friday, March 8, 2013

F' Me - I Somehow Missed That the Sine Nomine PDFs Are 25% Off

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