Tenkar's Tavern: Some of the Better Picks in My "Frog God Games Grab Bag"

Saturday, December 7, 2013

Some of the Better Picks in My "Frog God Games Grab Bag"

Caverns of Thracia looks damn cool. May have to slip this into the Wilderlands Campaign when the party hits third level or so.

Orcus - just weird after last nights post.

The blue dice are from the Swords & Wizardry Complete Kickstarter - my second set and I do love them.

The red dice have Orcus where the 1 goes/

Other stuff includes:

FGG2 - Strange Bedfellows for S&W

Encounter Deck 2 for S&W

The Slumbering Tsar Saga Coloring Book

Module MCMLXXV for S&W with the cover for Grimmsgate (I have this already - it may become a OSR Christmas Prize)

Tome of Horrors III for 3.5 - As I have ToH Complete for S&W, this may appear in the Christmas Giveaway)

One Night Stands 3 and 5 for Pathfinder

F1, G2, G3, G6, G7, K5 and K9 from Necromancer Games for D20

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AndrewDecember 7, 2013 at 10:43 AM
That is a damned fine haul.
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Peter DDecember 7, 2013 at 1:25 PM
Wow, nice. If I'd realized they'd include minis, I might have grabbed one myself . . .
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Gothridge ManorDecember 7, 2013 at 1:27 PM
I had to fight the urge to get into this one. Ivy would have thumped me. So many cool grab bag offers this year, I wanted to get them all.
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HenryDecember 7, 2013 at 11:49 PM
Nice box-o-stuff. Looks like yours runs the gamut, 3E d20, S&W, Pathfinder, mini, dice, cards.
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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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Some of the Better Picks in My "Frog God Games Grab Bag"

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