Tenkar's Tavern: Kickstarter - Adventurers! Revised Print Edition

Wednesday, October 12, 2016

Kickstarter - Adventurers! Revised Print Edition

If there is one game that will give Swords & Wizardry Light a run for its money, it's Adventurers! Where S&W Light will come it at 4 pages, Adventurers! also does it with 4 pages. Sure, settings and other add ons add to the page count, but a viable 4 page rule system? I love it. It is my inspiration.

Don't believe me? Grab the Adventurers! 4 pages of rules for free here. A very solid 4 1/2 stars rating after 35 reviews. I should be so lucky.

So, what does the Adventurers! Revised Print Edition offer that the free Core Edition of Adventurers! doesn't?

Settings.

Settings and settings and settings.

The setting is often the secret.

I really dig this rule system. Hopefully in the next week or so I'll get to give a review (time will be tight for the next week or so, so give me some leeway :)

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CurratumOctober 13, 2016 at 8:46 AM
Glad they put up the revised core rules up for free. I had previously looked at the system but the layout and fonts were an eyesore and I never really finished even the handful of pages.

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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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Kickstarter - Adventurers! Revised Print Edition

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