Tenkar's Tavern: Looking For Some Swords & Sorcery Appropriate Adventures

Monday, March 18, 2013

Looking For Some Swords & Sorcery Appropriate Adventures

I've approached my group of lapsed gamers about using the Crypts & Things ruleset for their return to gaming, and I've gotten a positive response to the idea.

Swords & Sorcery it is :)

I have two adventures for C&T, one from the rulebook and Blood of the Dragon, a low level C&T adventure. I also think many of the DCC RPG adventures should convert pretty well to C&T.

I am looking for other ideas, so have at it - can you think of any Swords & Sorcery themed adventures that would be suitable for use with C&T? Actually, they would probably also work well with AS&SH, so you might be helping +Dennis Higgins too ;)

Rule set doesn't matter too much, but OGL based would make for an easier conversion...

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South3rnG3ntMarch 18, 2013 at 1:17 PM
The Spider God's bride by Mongoose for the Legends RPG is as S&S as it gets.
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ZzarchovMarch 18, 2013 at 1:21 PM
What is S&S to you?
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firstfortMarch 18, 2013 at 3:16 PM
They are probably already on your list since you mentioned AS&SH, but Taken from Dunwich and Charnel Crypt of the Sightless Serpent are great examples. Also check out hyboria.xoth.net/adventures/index.html for The Spider God's Bride and Other Tales (as mentioned above). Also, I really like the idea of the Fungoid Gardens of the Bone Sorcerer from Carcosa as S&S module. I think even The Isle of Dread or The Lost City would work well with the right trappings. I recently picked up Under Pashuvanam's Lush as a potential S&S adventure. Oh! And check out all the free Barbarians of Lemuria adventures. They are great!
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Paul WolfeMarch 18, 2013 at 5:28 PM
Spider God's Bride is also available as a d20 book directly from the author's site. It reeks S&W with a Hyborian flavor:

http://xoth.net/publishing/xp1/index.htm
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Greyhawk GrognardMarch 18, 2013 at 9:18 PM
Treasure of Welthorp would work pretty much regardless of system. It's all role-playing and problem solving; no monsters.
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newsalorMarch 19, 2013 at 1:08 AM
Tower of the Stargazer.
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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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