Tenkar's Tavern: Bundle of Holding - Dungeon Crawl Classics 3.5 Era Adventures

Tuesday, April 12, 2016

Bundle of Holding - Dungeon Crawl Classics 3.5 Era Adventures

Currently on Bundle of Holding...

Goodman Games has an assortment of it's 3.5 Era Dungeon Crawl Classics adventures on sale at Bundle of Holding.

Let me flat out say that the $9.99 basic buy in level is an awesome deal.

This is what you get for $9.99:

- DCC #2: The Lost Vault of Tsathazar Rho (level 1) (retail price $7): An introductory scenario by D&D5 lead designer Mike Mearls set in a temple infested with Lovecraftian creatures.

- DCC #29: The Adventure Begins (levels 1-2) (retail $20): A huge 268-page anthology of novice-
level adventures. Each can kick off a whole campaign.

- DCC #36: Talons of the Horned King (levels 3-5) (retail $9): Fantasy meets future tech in a wrecked spaceship filled with cyborg monsters.

- DCC #7: The Secret of Smuggler's Cove (levels 5-7) (retail $7.50): One of the most admired DCC modules, a rescue mission into a haunted lighthouse that pays homage to the classic Saltmarsh series of AD&D adventures.

I'm less enamored by the High-Level Crawls currently at an additional 7 bucks ($16.99)

4 comments:

Alex KaraczunApril 12, 2016 at 9:41 AM
Now if they were print titles I'd jump on it!
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AnonymousApril 12, 2016 at 10:06 AM
Worth every damn penny
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AnonymousApril 12, 2016 at 12:24 PM
This is some good stuff... got a big bundle for $20.
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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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Tuesday, April 12, 2016

Bundle of Holding - Dungeon Crawl Classics 3.5 Era Adventures

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