Tenkar's Tavern: OSRIC Pocket Edition Now Available For Free in EPUB and MOBI Formats

Thursday, November 28, 2013

OSRIC Pocket Edition Now Available For Free in EPUB and MOBI Formats

So, this whole "Black Friday" shit has started early, and you've found yourself a deal on an e-book reader. Now, it would be awesome to read some of your RPG products on it, but most programs that do conversions from PDF to e-book reader blow chunks.

Now, if you want to put you OSRIC rules on your Kindle Paperwhite, you can read them in style (Kindles use MOBI, most other e-readers use EPUB),

You can grab the OSRIC rules for free in MOBI or EPUBat RPGNow to keep your e-reader in good company. Otherwise, you may be limited to FATE and the like on your e-reader ;)

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NoobirusNovember 28, 2013 at 8:58 AM
Oh how I wish there were more tabletops in the .mobi format... :-[
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Blue TysonNovember 28, 2013 at 9:41 AM
Excellent. Another one for the geeklist :- http://rpggeek.com/geeklist/165258/rpgs-with-epub-andor-mobi-versions
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Reverend DakNovember 28, 2013 at 2:21 PM
Yes! It's so much easier to read this way. Wonder how they're doing tables..
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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

OSRIC Pocket Edition Now Available For Free in EPUB and MOBI Formats

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