Tenkar's Tavern: Publishers - Tomorrow is Your Last Chance to Sign up for Christmas in July Sales at OneBookShelf

Thursday, July 13, 2017

Publishers - Tomorrow is Your Last Chance to Sign up for Christmas in July Sales at OneBookShelf

I got this email last night and thought I should share it. I know I've been told in the past from other publishers that they've missed certain notifications from OBS and I'm trying to expand the bandwidth.

Dear publishers,

This is a final reminder that our annual "Chrismas in July" sale, the biggest sitewide promotion of the year, is fast approaching. During Christmas in July, we offer many thousands of titles all at 25% off, across DriveThruRPG/RPGnow, DriveThruCards, DriveThruComics, and DriveThruFiction.

If you would like to take part in this major promotion, please make sure to opt in using the "Opt in or out of site-wide sales" tool page

(https://www.drivethrurpg.com/pub/sales_permissions.php)

by 10 AM (EST) this Friday, July 14, at the latest.

Yours,
Scott Holden
Sales, Data, and Special Projects
OneBookShelf, Inc.
scott@onebookshelf.com

Which means for The Tavern's general readers - there's a big sale from OBS coming up soon :)

3 comments:

Venger SatanisJuly 13, 2017 at 12:55 PM
Sweet! I'll be participating as usual. Merry fucking Christmas!
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UnknownJuly 13, 2017 at 10:50 PM
Well heck, I should learn to visit the Tavern BEFORE I go shopping.
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Greyhawk GrognardJuly 14, 2017 at 12:53 PM
And BRW Games (Adventures Dark and Deep, Castle of the Mad Archmage, etc.) will be in on the sale as well!
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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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Thursday, July 13, 2017

Publishers - Tomorrow is Your Last Chance to Sign up for Christmas in July Sales at OneBookShelf

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