Thu, 29 Sep 2011
My copy of Frog God Games The Tome of Horrors Complete, for Swords & Wizardry, arrived today. My, that's a massive tome: a hardback with 671 numbered pages followed by 14 pages of advertisements. (In a smaller book, I might have complained about that many pages of advertisements, but in a book this large it doesn't seem excessive.) From my earlier quick perusal of the PDF and a brief scan of the hardback today I'm very pleased with the content, and I'm looking forward to using this in my game. To the folks who worked on this: well done!
Thu, 16 Dec 2010
I bought a copy of the PDF and paperback [1] of Swords & Wizardry: Complete Rules [2] from Frog God Games this evening, and after a quick scan of the PDF my initial reaction is positive: it does look like what I'd hoped it would be: a much better organized restatement of the seven original D&D booklets, and I think it is likely to become one of my favorite versions of D&D. Matthew Finch of Mythemere Games and Frog God Games have done what looks like a fine job.
And the text is OGL Open Game Content; to quote from the OGL section at the back of the book:
This entire work is designated as Open Game Content under the OGL, with the exception of the trademarks “Swords & Wizardry,” “S&W,” “Mythmere Games,” “FGG,” “Frog God Games,” and with the exception of all artwork. These trademarks, artwork, and the Trade Dress of this work (font, layout, style of artwork, etc.) are reserved as Product Identity.
There is a mini-review at Tenkar's Tavern, and a thread at theRPGsite with some discussion about it, including a very interesting post about the ranger.
I'm going to have to site down and read this in detail very soon.
| [1] | I'd have liked to have gotten one of the hardback copies, but those sold out long before I'd realized they'd been published. |
| [2] | The cover says Swords & Wizardry Complete Rulebook, while the title page says Swords & Wizardry Core Rules. |
Sat, 10 Oct 2009
Spoilers!
We're playing Tomb of the Iron God, so if you haven't played that you might want to skip this entry.
We had a little bit of time to play, but not all our usual players were available, so we rolled up Swords & Wizardry characters, and started down into the Tomb of the Iron God.
Attending
- T.K.B., the Dungeon Master
- M.B., playing (with T.K.B.'s help) - Red Gorm, a human fighter
- M.A., playing - Bub, a male human cleric, soon surnamed the Naked for skinny dipping - Cedric, a male human fighter
- T.A., playing - Nameless, a male human magic-user - Wolfgar, a male human fighter
- E.A., playing - Errin' (as in erring), a female human fighter with a 3 INT - Bob-Jo, a female human magic user
Bathing and Blood
E.A. had fun playing an immensely strong character with no sense at all, clearing the steps down to the first level with ease, but taking no care to avoid her comrades when flinging the boulders up out of the stairs.
They were suitably creeped by out the goblin head in the entrance room, but eventually moved on through the door to the left, and entered the first room. There M.A. decided he was going to bathe in the fountain, and stripped down to nothing and splashed about. The splashing and the resultant argument attracted the attention of a couple of striges resting in a large crack up near the ceiling, and before it was over Bub was jumping around in combat naked and and Nameless was down to 1 hit point.
After that Bub got back into his clothes and armor.
And that was all we had time for that afternoon. Everybody seemed to have fun.