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Swords and Wizardry Complete Rulebook (PDF only) |
Vendor: Frog God Games |
Swords and Wizardry Complete Rulebook (PDF only)This book expands the Swords and Wizardry Core Rules (http://www.swordsandwizardry.com/) to cover all of the early phase supplements from the 1970's. It creates a 1-volume resource allowing the players and game masters alike to create and run adventures and campaigns that will last for an entire lifetime. The game is supported by a vast array of adventures, and other resources that are produced by Frog God Games. This is the game you played 20 years ago. It's true to the original style and philosophy that made the game great. No "Spot Checks" here. Simple, flexible rules that allow players and game masters alike to roll play and roleplay. This stand-alone tome provides all the rules you need to play the game. Its easily transferable as a rules set for other retro-clone games as well as those old dusty modules you still have in the attic. In 1974, Gary Gygax (1938-2008) and Dave Arneson (1947-2009) wrote the world's first fantasy role-playing game, a simple and very flexible set of rules that launched an entirely new genre of gaming. In the year 2000, Wizards of the Coast, Inc. (holder of the "Dungeons & Dragons" trademark) released the "Open Game License," which allows third parties, like us, to use various intellectual properties historically associated with the Dungeons & Dragons game - although not the actual trademarked name itself, and with specific terms and restrictions. This book is an unofficial, "re-stated" version of the original Gygax & Arneson rules (0e), created using the Open Game License. This original game consisted of a boxed set of three booklets: Men & Magic, Monsters & Treasure, and The Underworld & Wilderness Adventures. Four supplements were also written by Gary Gygax, Rob Kuntz and others between 1975 and 1977, containing options for expanding the game with new rules. Collectively, all those booklets are often referred to as "0e," standing for "zero edition," and we mention the "Original Game" from time to time in this book, as a reference point. Swords & Wizardry re-describes selected rules from all seven of the Original Game booklets, taking some and leaving some. In general, Swords & Wizardry adopts class, monster, and spell rules from all the supplements, but sticks to the simpler combat mechanics from the boxed set and the first supplement only. Tim Kask, the first editor of the Dragon Magazine(TM), the first employee of TSR, Inc., and the editor of Supplements 2-4 for Original Dungeons & Dragons (TM), has more to say about that in the Foreword. The Swords & Wizardry rules are extremely short, compared to the multi-paged rule-libraries required to play most modern role-playing games. Yet this game contains within itself all the seeds and soul of mythic fantasy, the building blocks of vast complexity, the kindling of wonder. "Edition Zero" is so powerful because it's encapsulated in a small formula, like a genie kept imprisoned in the small compass of an unremarkable lamp. Take this framework, and then imagine the hell out of it! |
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Vendor: Frog God Games |
The Blight is a dark place. Children disappear all the time, especially those of the poor, The Harvester of Cribs, one of the city's strange local gods, is blamed for many of these disappearances. Typically, these disappearances are random, isolated instances, and in many cases, the Harvester has nothing to do with it all, merely being a convenient explanation or alibi for some other nefarious activity. This time, however, 36 children have disappeared from their homes—all in a single night—and many of them were not from the houses of the poor. Not even the jaded folk of the City-State of Castorhage will stand for this (especially not a prominent Justice and a guild leader who have each lost a child in this rash of disappearance). Now is the time for a call to action. Now is the time for heroes. The Children of the Harvest is a stand-alone adventure set in The Blight for 4—6 characters of 7th to 8th level. |
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Vendor: Frog God Games |
The Blight is a dark place. Children disappear all the time, especially those of the poor, The Harvester of Cribs, one of the city's strange local gods, is blamed for many of these disappearances. Typically, these disappearances are random, isolated instances, and in many cases, the Harvester has nothing to do with it all, merely being a convenient explanation or alibi for some other nefarious activity. This time, however, 36 children have disappeared from their homes—all in a single night—and many of them were not from the houses of the poor. Not even the jaded folk of the City-State of Castorhage will stand for this (especially not a prominent Justice and a guild leader who have each lost a child in this rash of disappearance). Now is the time for a call to action. Now is the time for heroes. The Children of the Harvest is a stand-alone adventure set in The Blight for 4—6 characters of 7th to 8th level. |
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Vendor: Frog God Games |
The Blight is a dark place. Children disappear all the time, especially those of the poor, The Harvester of Cribs, one of the city's strange local gods, is blamed for many of these disappearances. Typically, these disappearances are random, isolated instances, and in many cases, the Harvester has nothing to do with it all, merely being a convenient explanation or alibi for some other nefarious activity. This time, however, 36 children have disappeared from their homes—all in a single night—and many of them were not from the houses of the poor. Not even the jaded folk of the City-State of Castorhage will stand for this (especially not a prominent Justice and a guild leader who have each lost a child in this rash of disappearance). Now is the time for a call to action. Now is the time for heroes. The Children of the Harvest is a stand-alone adventure set in The Blight for 4—6 characters of 7th to 8th level. |
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Vendor: Frog God Games |
Some say dreams of fire People in the Blight begin to awaken at night burning with an all-too-real fire. Most of them die horribly, spouses or lovers staring in shocked horror at their sudden death throes in the grip of consuming flames. A few of the truly unlucky actually manage to survive — if living in such a state can be called survival. There seems to be no rhyme or reason in the victims of these incinerating dreams, as those among the high and low fall victim to its touch, and the locals each pray that he or she will not be next. Now no one dares to sleep. The Crucible is a stand-alone adventure set in The Blight for 4–6 7th-level characters. |
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