Tenkar's Tavern: Petty Gods: Revised and Expanded is Here

Monday, May 18, 2015

Petty Gods: Revised and Expanded is Here - Free in PDF and at Cost in Print

I have seen Petty Gods, and it is good. Really. I got my advance copy of the PDF last night and holy shit it rocks.

396 pages cover to cover. I want this in hard cover for my bookshelf ;)

It's available in three ways:

First - Free Petty Gods PDF. As in "air" and "freedom" and all that jazz. Ignore what RPGNow says about there being a watermark - there ain't none. Believe me, I checked.

Second - At Cost Petty Gods in Premium Soft Cover - $13.22 - Did I mention the PDF has 396 pages cover to cover? Huge book.

Third - At Cost Petty Gods in Casewrap Hardback - $22.47 - no idea what the heck "casewrap" means, but it must be good.

While your at Lulu, you may as well add the Old School Adventures™ Accessory CC1: Creature Compendium for $7.99. An excellent value and it's keeper than paying for shipping twice ;)

Or find some more goodies at Lulu. Buy 4 and get the one of lowest cost for free. Code: TRGE15

10 comments:

Wayne R.May 18, 2015 at 8:35 AM
There are two ways to do a hardcover book: casewrap and cloth. In a cloth book, the boards are covered with cloth (duh) and typically the book has a dust jacket. In a casewrap book, the boards are covered with printed paper. So all the AD&D hardcovers were casewrap, while the first editions of many novels are cloth. Lulu's casewraps tend to use a higher gloss paper that is popular nowadays.
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David BaymillerMay 18, 2015 at 9:51 AM
I'm excited to see this.
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Johnn FourMay 18, 2015 at 10:22 AM
Just headed to Lulu right now!
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Johnn FourMay 18, 2015 at 10:25 AM
Ok, added those two. What else should I get? I'm up to NOD 21. I'll add a couple of those. What else?
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Venger SatanisMay 18, 2015 at 1:41 PM
Wow, an awesome achievement. Kudos to the creators!
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DMWiegMay 18, 2015 at 1:57 PM
This PDF is freaking sweet. Considering the sheer amount of material you get, the idea that it's free is ludicrous...but I'm grateful nonetheless.
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Smokestack JonesMay 18, 2015 at 10:41 PM
More of my art seeing the light of day! YES!
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routyMay 20, 2015 at 12:17 AM
i hear nice things about creature compendium.
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UnknownMay 20, 2015 at 1:42 AM
Wow, I had forgotten about this. It's great to see my entry in there, and they did a great job of polishing it up too. And to the artist, Eugene Jaworski if he sees this, the picture for Malnor is fantastic! Really grabs that "Get back in ranks before I beat you for insubordination!" feel.
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HodgsonJune 9, 2015 at 7:14 PM
Be sure to get the hardcover, it's a thing of beauty. Amazing job by Richard LeBlanc.
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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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