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Thursday, May 22, 2014

D&D Next Starter Set Box Just $12.66 on Amazon

Good, bad or indifferent, at $12.66 you owe it to yourself to check out the latest version of the Dungeons & Dragons game Starter Set when it releases. It includes dice ;)

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Timothy S. BrannanMay 22, 2014 at 2:40 PM
While that is good and all. I would rather pay the 19.95 and get it at my Favorite Local Game Store.

I have no issues with Amazon, I am a prime member and regularly drink the kool-aid (which was actually Flavor-aid), but the extra 7 bucks is an investment in keeping my game store open.

So please buy these at your local game store or comic shop. Keep these guys open.
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DyversMay 22, 2014 at 2:56 PM
The PH is $29.97 - that's nearly half off. I pre-ordered mine for Amazon.
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Scott AndersonMay 22, 2014 at 3:16 PM
Eh. I could go either way.
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Zenopus ArchivesMay 22, 2014 at 3:48 PM
The lastest WOTC news has 15% of the PHB in a free pdf as a step between the Starter & the full PHB.
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Reese LaundryMay 22, 2014 at 4:29 PM
I don't have an FLGS, so this is good news to me. I was going to pre-order the box, then changed my mind once I heard it didn't have the character creation rules. But, at that price I can burn a $50 gift card I've had since Christmas and get the box and PHB.
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Peter DMay 22, 2014 at 4:48 PM
That pushed me over the edge into a pre-order.

I just hope I don't feel burned like I did when I went with $12 Starter Traveller over a bank-breaking $20 Deluxe Traveller back when I was a kid.

Although for $13, I can buy it, check it out, and pass it on to a budding RPG gamer without breaking the bank. :)
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MarcMay 23, 2014 at 5:50 AM
It's just gone up on Amazon UK for £15.22 (that's $25.60) with an alleged retail price of £20.39 (that's $34.25!!!). As that makes it significantly cheaper to buy from Amazon US and pay the international shipping ($20.65 including international delivery) that is most certainly the way to go!
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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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D&D Next Starter Set Box Just $12.66 on Amazon

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