Tenkar's Tavern: Raging Swan Christmas MegaBundle

Friday, December 2, 2016

Raging Swan Christmas MegaBundle - $650 plus for less than $30

First things first - this is a Pathfinder bundle.

Secondly, the various "Dressing" releases - Wilderness, Dungeon, Urban, as well as the Village Backdrop series are pretty much system neutral and worth the price of admission on their own.

Third. Raging Swan produces good stuff.

Impossible to list everything in this Raging Swan Christmas MegaBundle, so not gonna try. Follow the link to see the listing.

a small selection of what is included

Remember, all purchases using The Tavern's OBS affiliate links puts 5% of your purchase price into The Tavern's coffers. Don't leave that money on the table for the greedy corps! Tip your barman! ;)

6 comments:

DougDecember 2, 2016 at 8:33 PM
Yeah, this is just about the best deal for game stuff I've ever seen. The Pathfinder stats are really secondary for most of this. The "Dressing" products alone for this price would be great.
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PatrickDecember 2, 2016 at 10:40 PM
Raging Swan puts out fantastic stuff. As was mentioned, the Pathfinder stats can really be ignored. The random tables alone in these are worth tons.
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sevenbastardDecember 3, 2016 at 1:33 PM
Purchased it,now i need to figure out how to combine it all into one giant book and print it out.
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DougDecember 3, 2016 at 2:57 PM
Make sure you don't print out the front and back title pages. All that black is gonna kill your ink!
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Gothridge ManorDecember 3, 2016 at 10:00 PM
Headed over to snag this using your handy dandy affiliate link.
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BuzzclawDecember 6, 2016 at 3:23 PM
I loath Pathfinder but Raging Swan products have such wonderful atmosphere and flavor.
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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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Friday, December 2, 2016

Raging Swan Christmas MegaBundle - $650 plus for less than $30

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