Tenkar's Tavern: Update - James Shields' Choose Your Own: Sci-Fi Stock Art Kickstarter

Tuesday, May 29, 2018

Update - James Shields' Choose Your Own: Sci-Fi Stock Art Kickstarter - Now with Even More Free Sh!t

My goodness. James Shields' Choose Your Own: Sci-Fi Stock Art Kickstarter is an advertisement of how amazing the OSR creative community is. When other publishers and creators are volunteering to offer up their own work for free to support James' Kickstarter, it doesn't just tell you about James but about those offering their own works to support James.

Huzzah!

And there may be more added tomorrow ;)

Note - the free PDFs are cumulative:

Back at $15 - $16 value in PDFs.

Back at $25 - $35.50 value in PDFs.

Back at $50 - $61.50 value in PDFs.

Free PDFs at $15 backer level ($10 value)

Free PDFs at $15 backer level ($6+ value)

Free PDFs at $25 backer level ($14 value)

Free PDFs at $25 backer level ($11.50 value)

Free PDF at the $50 backer level ($9.99 value)

Free PDF at $50 backer level ($9.99 value)

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Jacob RossMay 29, 2018 at 9:40 PM
I told James to put it at whatever tier that he wants. So I think that when you add it all together (Jame said that even more people have offered), you basically get your money back in PDFs and the pics only cost 50 cent each.
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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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Tuesday, May 29, 2018

Update - James Shields' Choose Your Own: Sci-Fi Stock Art Kickstarter - Now with Even More Free Sh!t

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