Tenkar's Tavern: RPGNow is Running a Cthulhu Mythos Sale - The Tavern Highlights Some OSR Picks

Sunday, August 21, 2016

RPGNow is Running a Cthulhu Mythos Sale - The Tavern Highlights Some OSR Picks

Yep, in celebration of H.P. Lovecraft's birthday (August 20th, 1890) RPGNow is running a Cthulhu Mythos Sale. Prices are 20% off of the regular price. I figured I'd share some picks that might appeal to The Tavern's readers.

Astonishing Swordsmen & Sorcerers of Hyperborea - +Jeff Talanian 's awesome OSR release. 488 pages of self contained gaming goodness drawing upon sources such as Conan, Mythos and other pulp favorites. But wait, there's more! Jeff has some adventures for sale too!

Forgotten Fane of the Coiled Goddess, Beneath the Comet, The Mystery at Port Greely, Ghost Ship of the Desert Dunes and Taken from Dunwich are adventures for AS&SH and all on sale.

Silent Legions - +Kevin Crawford 's OSR game of "modern-day Lovecraftian horror." If you know Kevin and the games he writes, then you know there is a lot of tools that you can easily convert to the OSR game of your choice.

Realms of Crawling Chaos - From Goblinoid Games, this Labyrinth Lord classic "is a Lovecraftian Dark Fantasy campaign supplement." New classes, new monsters, new spells, new races. It's a great tool to add a little darkness to your OSR campaign.

Prices are good through the end of August.

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RomAugust 22, 2016 at 10:53 AM
I also found Cthulhu Hack in the sale. It claims to support OSR so I though I would add it here. For $2, it is worth a look. http://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/182803/The-Cthulhu-Hack
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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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RPGNow is Running a Cthulhu Mythos Sale - The Tavern Highlights Some OSR Picks

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