Tenkar's Tavern: Wayward Kickstarters - Myth & Magic Player's Guide - Available on Lulu

Wednesday, November 5, 2014

Wayward Kickstarters - Myth & Magic Player's Guide - Available on Lulu - $9.99

Truth to tell, the whole Myth & Magic Player's Guide Kickstarter experience has soured me on what is otherwise a damn good presentation of 2e. I really expected anthrax or urine to accompany my copy of the Player's Guide, and I know I only got my copy because Tom hoped it would shut me up.

I'll admit I stopped reading the comments at the Kickstarter page with any regularity after July or so, as it was obvious that Tom had withdrawn himself to avoid dealing with his irate supporters.

One of those supporters went so far as to upload the Myth & Magic Player's Guide to Lulu. The Paperback version is going for $9.95 and not a cent is going to Tom as far as I can tell. Which is music to my ears. I wouldn't piss on him if his apartment full of Myth & Magic Player's Guides spontaneously combusted.

As for the legality of the availability on Lulu, I have no opinion. I do happen to enjoy the finger being waved in Tom's direction 'tho...

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Andre Michael PietroschekNovember 5, 2014 at 9:19 PM
I hoped that less proverbial "one-hit-wonders" would be kickstarted. Better one which stays, adds PC games and Movies before gracefully stepping down again. Now I feel too old and too poor. :-( God hated my roleplaying joy from the start!
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Christian KolbeNovember 6, 2014 at 12:02 AM
I actually got in on this one, and like you have gotten tired of the whole mess.

I sent him a message a few months ago telling him not to bother sending me anything.

I'd rather just be left alone.
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Chris GonnermanNovember 6, 2014 at 12:33 AM
Kickstarter is a bust, IMO. I bootstrapped, and I would never do anything else.
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HenryNovember 6, 2014 at 12:39 AM
Not even worth a print copy at this point. Second edition deserves better representation. This is not that game.
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BrandonshireNovember 6, 2014 at 9:50 AM
I'm so glad that I backed this at a PDF only tier.
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AnonymousNovember 8, 2014 at 10:41 AM
Ahhh Tom Ryan, my favorite shyster lawyer! I'm glad that this is available in such a way that he won't profit from it.
If only his GMG would ever get posted in such a way...
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UnknownDecember 17, 2014 at 2:00 PM
This is a good game that needs to be available to us. Any idea how to get a pdf GMG?
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UnknownDecember 17, 2014 at 2:01 PM
This is a good game that needs to be available to us. I have the PHB pdf, any idea how I get the GMG?
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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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Wednesday, November 5, 2014

Wayward Kickstarters - Myth & Magic Player's Guide - Available on Lulu - $9.99

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