Tenkar's Tavern: Hoping to Have a Swords & Wizardry Continual Light "Ashcan" Ready for GaryCon

Sunday, February 26, 2017

Hoping to Have a Swords & Wizardry Continual Light "Ashcan" Ready for GaryCon

Cover Art by Luigi Castelli

+James Spahn forwarded me and the rest of our playtest group the most recent version of the of the Swords & Wizardry Continual Light beta in PDF format Its 90% + where it needs to be, heck, probably 95% +. Certainly close enough for me to print out a copy in digest form later on this week and see what it looks like in hand. Sixteen pages plus the cover sheet. This is simply very exciting.

If all goes well I may have a dozen or so "ashcan" versions of SWCL to bring with me to GaryCon. I'll update as we get closer.

Of course the plan is for the final release to include seven adventures - one for each level and maybe a small sandbox setting. We're getting there ;)

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Kevin S.February 26, 2017 at 7:35 PM
I love the name "Continual Light."
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FritsKFebruary 27, 2017 at 4:25 AM
As english is not my native language I don't get the ashcan reference. You're planning to turn your players into piles of ash?
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RuprechtFebruary 27, 2017 at 2:56 PM
One of the nicest covers in RPG history.
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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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