Tenkar's Tavern: Another WTF Kickstarter - The Lifestyle Design Journal: Living Well, Its An Art.

Saturday, April 23, 2016

Another WTF Kickstarter - The Lifestyle Design Journal: Living Well, Its An Art.

A Kickstarter that needs seizure warnings

"You're" and "your" shouldn't be an issue for someone making a product that is meant to be used for the written word.

Missing spaces, wrong use of "you're", random capitalization, missing words and simply makes little sense. Just think, this was sent to me as a spam message on Facebook to highlight. So, I'm highlighting the problems of The Lifestyle Design Journal. Maybe they should start by redesigning the Kickstarter page.

Of course, how can one make it better? Leave in the default Latin gibberish. This is a first for me. It makes it extra special.

I full full faith that American Product Development to "get the job done like no other". I'm glad they love their backers. It makes be feel special. Wait, I'm not now, nor will I ever be, a backer.

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James C.April 25, 2016 at 7:18 AM
The Latin gibberish is called Lorem Ipsum, it is place holder text when doing mock or layout. It is also frowned upon to leave it in the finished product. I love these Kickstarter posts.
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MCPlanckApril 27, 2016 at 1:02 AM
OMG. He's invented chapter headings. The world will never be the same.

For $50 I get 2 journals? In case I need to design 2 lives?
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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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Saturday, April 23, 2016

Another WTF Kickstarter - The Lifestyle Design Journal: Living Well, Its An Art.

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