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Sunday, September 22, 2024

Bundle of Holding - Baker Street RPG

Ever want to solve mysteries like Sherlock Holmes? Well, here's the opportunity for your gaming group to do exactly that.

Detective! We've resurrected our January 2022 Baker Street Bundle featuring the entire line of the Victorian investigative tabletop roleplaying game Baker Street: Roleplaying in the World of Sherlock Holmes from Fearlight Games. Sherlock Holmes is missing and presumed dead. In the Great Detective's absence, the stoic Dr. Watson asks you and your fellow intrepid investigators to solve the most baffling crimes in history. The wide-ranging investigations in these casebooks send you to rescue the Queen, face the Hound of the Baskervilles, solve the Jack the Ripper murders, and foil many other nefarious plans of crafty villains. Victorian streets, foggy nights, and crime most foul await.
For just US$19.95 you get all five titles in this revived offer's Detection Collection (retail value $80) as DRM-free ebooks, including the complete Baker Street: Roleplaying in the World of Sherlock Holmes core rulebook; Sherlock by Gaslight, a complete campaign about the Whitechapel murders; and three casebooks that together present 19 complete investigations: Baker Street Casebook #1, #2: Missions from Mycroft, and #3: Strange Cases & Distant Places.

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sevenbastardSeptember 23, 2024 at 8:45 AM
I was really hoping this was about the Gerry Rafferty classic, but Sherlock is cool too I guess
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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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