This question comes often so I decided to do a little video explaining things. I admit I love the versions of Swords & Wizardry. So check out the video. Share it if you here that question, “What’s the difference between White Box, Core, and Complete?”
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It’s been a good and busy month. I posted a lot more videos than I had planned for a normal month and there’s a few games that I wanted to rant about that just didn’t quite make it. Don’t worry. Those will be coming soon.
I didn’t spam every group online with each video. That was all part of my cunning plan. But here’s a wrap of all the videos that I did for Independent RPG month. Enjoy.
Here’s the big one. Support not only publishers but bloggers, vloggers, and other indie content creators. Do little searching and see what else they have out there.
I could do Indepenent RPG month without a shout to the mind behind it all. Good old Professor Dungeon Master over at Dungeoncraft.
Oh, Lamentations of the Flame Princess. I kind of ignored this game for a while but I was slowly drawn back in. Got some ideas for it bouncing around my head.
Swords & Wizardry is my favorite retroclone for a standard D&D style game. I was lucky and was one of folks that got their reward from the recent Kickstarter as part of a shipping test. So here’s an unboxing.
I do like non-D&D inspired games too. Barbaric and Cepheus Quantum are both pretty good games. Heck, I even wrote a little supplement for 1st Edition Barbaric. But a Second Edition is coming up and can’t wait to get my fingers on that.
And finally. Good old Warlock and Warpstar. Sure they use a d20 but still very much their own system and a pretty cool one at that.
And with that, I return you to your regularly scheduled rants.
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Spreading the word on a great game and a little hype for own channel. Swords & Wizardry is my personal favorite and the new printing is great addition to the library. And I guess I was one of the lucky one’s to be part of the shipping test run.
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How the hell did I not rant about this before? I thought I had but I hadn’t. Sure I have mentioned it before as a good edition to your White Box Library but I haven’t said much on it’s own merits. So here you go.
Continual Light takes the already easy mechanics of Swords & Wizardry White Box/Whit Box FMAG and distills them even more. Yes, It’s even simpler. It doesn’t go quite to the level of what I would call a rules light game. And while distilled down, is still compatible with any existing adventure.
I think some of the best parts is that instead of the just one Skill for the Thief, there’s four (Hear Noises, Climb, Unfamiliar Languages, and Traps/Locks/Stealth). The other really good part is the “other’ classes. You know the one’s; everything beyond the basic four. Instead of a building a whole new class for extra page count. It’s boiled down to a couple of sentences and swaps out one class ability for a “new” one or gain a whole new ability. Of course, these classes take longer level up but it’s a quick and easy way to do things.
Dare I also say that this makes a darn good starter game. And rumor is that a second edition is coming out. Well, last I heard. Not so much a revision of the rules but some clean up, new art, and edits.
It’s worth checking out on DrivethruRPG.
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Ahh, yes. I’m shilling another Kickstarter. This is a good one because Swords & Wizardry has fallen off the radar and it’s my favorite of the retroclones.
Here’s Swords & Wizardry Complete in a nutshell. It’s based off the three little brown books of original D&D plus the supplements. Basically, all the stuff that lead up to the design of later earlier editions. Plus it does throw one extra tweak in there. A single Saving Throw. It’s easy to play and run. It’s easily house rules and hackable.
But isn’t Swords & Wizardry already out? Well, sort of. There’s a couple of things that happened that led to this. First, the rules have reverted back to Matt Finch of Mythmere Games. (BTW, Matt is an awesome guy. Back it for that reason.) Second, there have been some revisions from previous printings. And third, there was that whole OGL mess and drama. So new license time.
I do already have the third printing and the boxed set (which didn’t turn out that well). But I’m still in for this one. It’s a good set of rules that can easily mixed in with other old-school games. So I’m there. It’s a great one to back.
So go check this one out over at the Kickstarter.
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