Tenkar's Tavern: Deal of the Day - Axebane's Deck of Many Dungeons

Tuesday, August 23, 2022

Deal of the Day - Axebane's Deck of Many Dungeons

I'm a huge fan of GM aids, especially those that allow a GM to improvise a game session pretty much on the fly.

Axebane's Deck of Many Dungeons is just such a tool, and at 1.50 in PDF until tomorrow at 11 AM Eastern, it is a steal!

PDF version (Color & Black and White) available now. Printed card version coming soon!
A special deck of full-color playing cards for GameMasters.
Packed with random tables and illustrated in full-color, this deck of 54 cards can generate over 1 MILLION different dungeons!
Designed to be the ultimate "Pocket GameMaster's Tool", these cards can help you make the most of your prep time. You can also use them on-the-fly during your next RPG session when your players decide to go in a completely different direction than you anticipated!
For use with most fantasy RPGs, and especially well suited to the 5th edition of the most popular role-playing game.
PLEASE NOTE: This deck of cards is not a stand-alone game. It is a tool for GameMasters to use with tabletop fantasy role-playing games!

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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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Deal of the Day - Axebane's Deck of Many Dungeons

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