Tenkar's Tavern: Stock Art Madness Has Revived My Muse - Last Few Hours to Get Purple Duck Stock Art at 50% Off

Wednesday, July 1, 2015

Stock Art Madness Has Revived My Muse - Last Few Hours to Get Purple Duck Stock Art at 50% Off

It occurred to me that today might be Canada Day (it is) and that meant that the Purple Duck Everything is 50% off Sale would be ending tonightish and I need stock art.

So, I bought a ton of stock art from +Purple Duck Games and then poked around a few other companies.

Some samples (BTW, as I use stock art on here at The Tavern, I'll link to where you can find it at RPGNow - today it's just a sampling of what is awakening my muse.)

Gary Dupuis from Purple Duck Games

Maciej Zagorski from Forge Studios

I've got plans for these and more. Let's see what I can get to after dinner and before Tavern Chat later tonight.

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AnthonyJuly 2, 2015 at 10:40 AM
Thanks for this post. I was not aware of the sale. I went and picked up a handful of Purple Duck art. I already have some forge studios stuff, and will buy more, I really like it and really need to remember to use it in my stuff :D
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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, July 1, 2015

Stock Art Madness Has Revived My Muse - Last Few Hours to Get Purple Duck Stock Art at 50% Off

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