Tenkar's Tavern: Necromancer Games 5e Kickstarter Books (except Monster Book) to be Converted to S&W and Pathfinder

Sunday, July 6, 2014

Necromancer Games 5e Kickstarter Books (except Monster Book) to be Converted to S&W and Pathfinder

There's more info on the Necromancer Games 5e Kickstarter, from none other than +Matt Finch himself over at ENWorld. It's a good an informative thread, but the post that stuck out the most to me was this from Matt:

So the 5e Necro Kickstarter will eventually lead to conversions for Swords & Wizardry and Pathfinder.

Very cool.

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Teh Bagder (Jay)July 6, 2014 at 11:01 PM
Nice. I'm glad to see that there's going to be across the board support for existing systems.
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Douglas ColeJuly 7, 2014 at 2:11 AM
This ties in ridiculously well with a post I just made, riffing off of something on p. 4 of the new Basic rules from 5e. http://gamingballistic.blogspot.com/2014/07/basic-dnd-5e-every-character-and-monster.html if you don't mind a tetch of link-dumping. But the "rules light, medium, heavy" nature of S&W, DnD 5e Basic Ruleset, Pathfinder is exactly how I characterized them, myself.
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PiperJuly 7, 2014 at 9:07 AM
This is great news and I'm glad to see Mythmere Games and Frog God Games keeping up with the industry. Best of luck to MG and FGG in this newest endeavor.
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garrisonjamesJuly 7, 2014 at 12:08 PM
This is very cool indeed.
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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, July 6, 2014

Necromancer Games 5e Kickstarter Books (except Monster Book) to be Converted to S&W and Pathfinder

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