Tenkar's Tavern: My Craigslist Old School Score - Part 3 of the Unboxing

Sunday, March 16, 2014

My Craigslist Old School Score - Part 3 of the Unboxing - The Arcanum of the Invincible Overlord

Part the Third, not to be confused with Part the Second or Part the First. Will probably be followed with Part the Odds and Ends...

I'm not even sure what this is, but it looks damn cool!

Can you really ever have too much Tunnels & Trolls?

I never owned the Companion rules - now i do!

Never really got into star Frontiers

Can't go wrong with an extra DMG

Time for some DM Screens

This is blurry because they are still in shrink wrap
Two copies of "The Haunt", a boxed supplement for
the Invincible Overlord

and more boxed sets in the Invincible Overlord series
Not wrapped but all NM condition

6 comments:

JDJarvisMarch 16, 2014 at 8:20 PM
The Arcanum is Bard Games rulebook for their Atlantis series, looks like a 1st edition. A very good alt-D&D.
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faoladhMarch 16, 2014 at 9:36 PM
The Arcanum is one of my own favorite D&D variants. I wrote a review of it a little while back. The short version is that I highly recommend it - it can also be plundered for material to use with a regular D&D game.
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Philosophical slumberMarch 17, 2014 at 6:27 AM
I am quite surprised that you had no idea what Arcanum is.
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Dyson LogosMarch 17, 2014 at 11:57 AM
Seriously the Arcanum is a BRILLIANT piece of old school house rules for D&D.

BRILLIANT.
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Darcy PerryMarch 17, 2014 at 10:57 PM
The 1st Edition AD&D DM's Screen is a keeper! Superb!
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ParrishMarch 18, 2014 at 2:57 PM
If you take the time to find the current total retail value, please share. Great find.
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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, March 16, 2014

My Craigslist Old School Score - Part 3 of the Unboxing - The Arcanum of the Invincible Overlord

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