We have begun a new project with the goal of promoting the playing of Swords & Wizardry. Michael Badolato has volunteered to manage it while I am the Frog God Partner who facilitates that.
What exactly is the Legion? Well, it's an attempt to create an appreciation society for Swords & Wizardry with a focus on the Light variant, a stripped-down-to-the-basics version of Matt Finch's retroclone, Swords & Wizardry. The system is only four pages long, uses only two dice (d6 and d20), and is the perfect blueprint for convention games, introducing newbies to RPGS in general or Swords & Wizardry in particular, or as a gateway to kids wanting a beginning RPG they can jump into without having to learn a lot of rules.
That's not to say that veteran gamers won't get a lot of fun out of Swords & Wizardry Light...they will, especially those used to old school systems where it's about the game itself and not the rules. By stripping S&W down to the basics, the rules fade into the background and the actual game play....solving puzzles, investigating ruins and dungeons, battling monsters, inter-party squabbling.....becomes the important thing.
To find out more you can contact Mike by going to the Legion's Facebook Group ( Facebook Legion Group). If Facebook is not your thing than he can be contacted via his email address- mikebadolato@ntrpgcon.com.
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I got mine when I got home last night. All three maps and Lost city of Barakus for about $35 after shipping. Couldn't resist
ReplyDeleteI picked up the Lost Lands hardcovers. I might picked up the 3rd printing of the S&W rules just to have another physical copy at the table. It's just hard for me to get over that cover when the 2E was so good, imho.
ReplyDeleteWho knew Skeeter could dress up so well?
ReplyDeleteI got the new Bards Gate PDF for $30.
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