Tenkar's Tavern: Fantasy Flight Games Holiday Sale

Thursday, November 28, 2013

Fantasy Flight Games Holiday Sale - WFRP , WH40K RPG and More

Fantasy Flight Games is having a fairly large sale with some excellent discounts on a good portion of their games.

Looks like most of the WH40K stuff is 50% off or more and some classic WFRP 2e stuff is discounted by 75% or more. Heck, some of the WFRP 3e stuff is discounted 75% or more - shame I just never could get into 3e.

Chaos Marauders is a mere 5 bucks. I can't tell you how many afternoons were spent playing this game in my college years. What a bargain. Heck, I may just buy an updated copy.

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AnonymousNovember 29, 2013 at 9:16 AM
You are now my nemesis for posting so much shit i don't need to spend money on, but probably will. My shelves look like a damn game store already.
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UnknownNovember 29, 2013 at 1:45 PM
In for Horus Heresy, Fortress America, and several 40k books.
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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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Thursday, November 28, 2013

Fantasy Flight Games Holiday Sale - WFRP , WH40K RPG and More

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