Tenkar's Tavern: Fantastic Heroes & Witchery Retro-RPG Hard Cover in Hand

Saturday, November 23, 2013

Fantastic Heroes & Witchery Retro-RPG Hard Cover in Hand

You remember me referring to the 2-page spread PDF of Fantastic Heroes & Witchery as "Crippleware"? I stand by that assessment, as turning that impossible to read PDF into a "normal" PDF encouraged me to order the HC version literally 20 minutes into reading it.

Hoping to spend some time with this over my week of vacation, as it really looks to have a crapload of stuff I'd like to borrow for my current campaign.

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foreshameNovember 24, 2013 at 4:16 AM
Couldn't get the cripple to norm conversion to work myself, thus it was relagated to the Recycle Bin, then oblivion...
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TalysmanNovember 24, 2013 at 3:55 PM
I jut used Adobe Acrobat Reader's reflow text feature. Not perfect, and a couple pages stay "crippled", but at least I can read it on the tablet.
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AnonymousNovember 24, 2013 at 8:16 PM
You should provide a link to the products print version. Might be handy.
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Anders KirsteinNovember 25, 2013 at 7:50 AM
I have no problems reading the excellent and free pdf! With great art :) Just zoom in your pdf reader, no problem :) At least it reads perfectly fine on my ipad and on the desktops too.

Have ordered the hardcover too, of course, link is here: http://www.lulu.com/shop/dominique-crouzet/fantastic-heroes-witchery-hardcover/hardcover/product-21316675.html
And link for the softcover is here: http://www.lulu.com/shop/dominique-crouzet/fantastic-heroes-witchery/paperback/product-21296967.html
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ENNNovember 25, 2013 at 8:44 AM
I read or skimmed through much of it over the weekend, after converting it to one-up. Lots of fun art, and an interesting mix of a simple old school base topped with a lot of detailed home-brew-type rules. It feels very organic. It is in need of a good editing, however.
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Fabio Milito PagliaraNovember 26, 2013 at 9:22 AM
read the pdf (great) and waiting for my hardcover book with the late lulu offer :)
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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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Fantastic Heroes & Witchery Retro-RPG Hard Cover in Hand

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