Tenkar's Tavern: Looking For a Bargain Price on "Dyson's Delves" in PDF?

Sunday, June 23, 2013

Looking For a Bargain Price on "Dyson's Delves" in PDF?

Hell, I have the dead tree version of Dyson's Delves and I'm hankering for the PDF for easy integration of the maps into Roll20 (and I really don't want to write in my dead tree version).

Dyson is working with the Delvers podcast to offer a 25% discount on the Dyson's Delves PDF.

More info at the Delvers Podcast site. While you are there, listen to the podcast. It's the best produced "real play" podcasts I've listend to.

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Greg GorgonmilkJune 23, 2013 at 11:17 AM
If NPR had a D&D show, it would probably sound like the Delvers Podcast.
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velaranJune 25, 2013 at 5:37 PM
The Delvers rock! I look forward to the weekly updates with pleasure. It's the best RPG Podcast I've heard in since forever; just as awesome as the sadly discontinued I Hit It With My Axe Webisodes, imo. It's especially cool they're Labyrinth Lord people.(My fav OSR Clone!) Even more so now that the GM is running the kick-ass Dyson's Delves!

The main site: The Delvers has some good Actual Play write-ups, too. They're well-written and entertaining. I'd honestly like to see more of these, but I'll take what I can get! :-)

Thanx for bringing further attention to this great OSR treasure.
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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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Sunday, June 23, 2013

Looking For a Bargain Price on "Dyson's Delves" in PDF?

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