Updating the Swords & Wizardry Quick Start module
It's been reported on Facebook and in Tenkar's blog that Swords & Wizardry is receiving a bit of facelift/reboot. There will be a facelift to the book itself, a box set is planned and releasing the book as a digest set (to mimic the original three "little brown books")
The news that caught my attention is Frog God Games, the publisher of S&W, is consolidating into just one "Swords & Wizardry" book to rule them all, no longer will there be a "Core" and "Complete" and "White Box".
That last bit leaves me very sad. White Box Swords & Wizardry came out about the same time I (re)discovered 1970s D&D and it has appealed to me for one very simple reason - it's a wonderful way to play the game as it was played in 1974, and it serves as an amazing toolkit to construct my own game much as MAR Barker built Empire of Petal Throne, how Gygax built Greyhawk and Arneson built Blackmoor, where the setting and rules were…
The news that caught my attention is Frog God Games, the publisher of S&W, is consolidating into just one "Swords & Wizardry" book to rule them all, no longer will there be a "Core" and "Complete" and "White Box".
That last bit leaves me very sad. White Box Swords & Wizardry came out about the same time I (re)discovered 1970s D&D and it has appealed to me for one very simple reason - it's a wonderful way to play the game as it was played in 1974, and it serves as an amazing toolkit to construct my own game much as MAR Barker built Empire of Petal Throne, how Gygax built Greyhawk and Arneson built Blackmoor, where the setting and rules were…
