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Tuesday, June 10, 2014

You Say You Want PDF RPG Bundles from DriveThruRPG? $10 Bundles are in the House (post 1 of 2)

Apparently DriveThruRPG is 10 years old. I remember the days when DTRPG and RPGNow were separate companies.

In any case, they are offering two distinct $10 bundles, each with over $150 worth of RPG PDFs.

Bundle One includes the following:

Traveller 2300 AD (never played this as much as I would have liked to back in the day, although this is the Mongoose Traveller version))

Adventure! (a pulp game from Onyx Path)

Book of Monster Templates (for Pathfinder)

Classic Spycraft: Spycraft Espionage Handbook (tempting)

Don't Lose Your Mind (Evil Hat)

Firefly Echoes of War: Friends in Low Places (it's Firefly)

SHADOWRUN DIGITAL TOOLS BOX (yes, it's in all caps)

The Imperial Age: True20 Edition (holy shit! it's for True20 - this may get me buying the bundle on this alone)

Wild Talents 2nd Edition (i've heard a lot of good about the system)

Xcrawl Core Rulebook (Goodman Games)

Bundle 2 link here

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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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Tuesday, June 10, 2014

You Say You Want PDF RPG Bundles from DriveThruRPG? $10 Bundles are in the House (post 1 of 2)

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