Tenkar's Tavern: Announcement - Star Sword Magazine Issue #1 is Live (White Star RPG)

Sunday, May 28, 2017

Announcement - Star Sword Magazine Issue #1 is Live (White Star RPG)

+James Spahn had mentioned he was working on a magazine for White Star but I never dreamed it was this far along. Yep, Star Sword Magazine Issue #1 is here (PDF for now, POD will be coming soon) - 3.99 in Galactic Credits - failing that, USC should suffice ;)

Welcome to the exciting first issue of Star Sword: The Official White Star Magazine! Each quarter you'll get the original content from across the galaxy! Each issue will feature new fiction, new classes, new equipment, adventure seeds and plot hooks, and thrilling sci-fi heroics as infinite as the stars themselves!

Thrill to the Tales of the Cosmic Kestrel!
Discover the heroic powers of Prime Humans!
Arm yourself with Gunslinger Gear!
Be drawn between Star and Void as you use your Knight's Gambit deck to discover The Blade's Way!
And much more!

Star Sword: The Official White Star Magazine is designed for use with White Star: White Box Science Fiction Roleplaying and White Star: Galaxy Edition, but all the material can easily be adapted to any classic OSR-style roleplaying game.

What's that? You don't own White Star? You do realize that White Star is currently PWYW, both in PDF and Print (minimum cost for print to cover, well, the printing) - Go grab your copy, then come back and grab your Star Sword!

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2 comments:

Venger SatanisMay 28, 2017 at 4:06 PM
Cool cover! I assume that most of the content will be usable with a variety of systems.
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Doctor FuturityMay 30, 2017 at 6:05 PM
Glad to see this out! I've been running Traveller lately, but want to get back to White Star. I keep running Traveller like this: "Once again you get through customs and bribe the correct officials to look the other way so you can carry a personal side arm through checking. You then head to your broker to load up on trade goods. Meanwhile, across the street you watch as a team of White Star adventurers explode a hotel and blast in to space where they are about to take on the might of the Quinlon empire in order to keep your Traveller PCs safe and secure in their little business."

....Yeah, we gotta get back to White Star soon.
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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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Announcement - Star Sword Magazine Issue #1 is Live (White Star RPG)

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