Tenkar's Tavern: Some DCC RPG Highlights (and others) to Look At During the RPGNow GM's Sale Event

Friday, March 8, 2013

Some DCC RPG Highlights (and others) to Look At During the RPGNow GM's Sale Event

As I type this, there's just over 4 1/2 days left to the RPGNow DM's Sale Event.

Today, I'm focusing on the Dungeon Crawl Classics RPG, or DCC RPG for short.

First up is the DCC RPG itself in PDF for $14.06. Sure it's a weird price, but 25% off will do that to you. Even with it's use of funkier dice than the usual funky dice most RPGs use, I've only heard positive feedback about the DCC RPG game. I've run a few sessions myself, and they were a blast. If you do get the game (or already own it) make sure you grab Purple Sorcerer's free iOS and Android app for you phone or tablet. It is an amazing tool for an awesome game.

Purple Duck Games had put their 3 current DCC RPG releases on sale for below silly prices. At these price points, you could buy them and easily convert them to the OSR ruleset of your choice. AL1: Bone Hoard of the Dancing Horror is a mere $1.34, AL 2: Sepulcher of the Mountain God is $1.58 and AL3: Through the Cotillion of Hours is $1.71. You can get all 3 for less than 5 bucks. If that's not a steal, I don't know what is.

What else strikes one's fancy?

Legend (formerly MRQ2) can be had for 75 cents. I don't think you can buy a candy bar for that price these days.

Savage Worlds Deluxe for $7.49. One day I'll play a second session of this. And look - the Marvel Heroic Roleplaying: Basic Game is also $7.49. Yet another game I own that I've yet to play.

I need to know if anyone has actually used the Mythic Game Master Emulator. I own it (and the full Mythic game) but have never used it. Intriguing. Hell, at $5.21 but it and let me know how to use it ;)

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maasenstodtMarch 8, 2013 at 4:47 PM
I've used the Mythic GM Emulator. It works impressively well, though I'd still rather referee a game than play with a group using Mythic. It's best use for me is when myself and one other person want to play a game. I'm not a fan of GMing for one player.
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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

Some DCC RPG Highlights (and others) to Look At During the RPGNow GM's Sale Event

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