New Swords & Wizardry Boxed Set Kickstarter

[Varsuuk]

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/froggodgames/swords-and-wizardry-limited-and-collectors-edition-box-sets

Check it out, the artwork is great and it’s a nice compCt modular format option.

[Mortar]

Its broken through 6 stretch goals...

[JohnD]

Shipping will double my costs.

[NotRussellCrowe]

Shipping will double my costs.

Yes, I asked in their Discord and was told it was very expensive to Canada. I'll just have to make due with my current PDF as it is.

[hawkwind]

will they add a FG ruleset as a stretch goal

[damned]

will they add a FG ruleset as a stretch goal

you might ask the OP that question...

[Varsuuk]

As much as I’d like to answer to the positive, I am doing this as a labor of (daunting) love. I could not promise them I would succeed much less give them assurance of meeting an Oct date (not that I was asked to.)

I’d love to be able to do so and it is certainly a push, but it’s a mainly commute time and when I should be sleeping thing I do in my laptop. I’m back on it because finally bought light enough laptop to carry along with my work supplies MacBook. My old fat MacBook Pro is now to be permanently a desktop (via cables) alt Mac.

I want to be hopeful but this sort of thing is far out of my comfort zone but I am trying and the community has been extremely helpful. Who knows.

That said, anyone thinking of volunteering should not be thinking that hmmm not worth doing this one, someone is on it. If you can dedicate time to it, by all means! I’d love to be buying tons of S&W FGG modules. They are a great company and have been a long time supplier of FG stuff for 5e already.

[Varsuuk]

PS they hit about 52K with over 700 pledgers already just a couple hours past 24.

[Myrdin Potter]

Oh, stop complaining and finish the rule set already, Dan.

;-)

[Varsuuk]

Bah!

I’m break in’ mah back here carrying TWO laptops each day a 15 AND 16” to be able to work on it and he now breaks mah ...

31386

At least now I get at min 60-70 mins a day plus what can squeak out in evenings.

[Varsuuk]

Update, up to 830+ pledges and several digital stretch goals (cos they deliver on time with good quality materials and don’t overpromise then be late, make it cheap or lose money undermining future products)

They just put up a sale (I believe it is not yet complete, it will be nearly all items, excluding only recent products like Tegel’s Manor and Sea King’s Magic) - they have Swords & Wizardry, 5E and PF1 items on sale.

https://froggodgames.com/product-category/on-sale/

[Varsuuk]

Cool news, something that seems obvious there would be a niche for this that just never occurred to me: vision impaired RPGers (especially since nearly the first year I played in ‘79 it was all theater of the mind)

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/froggodgames/swords-and-wizardry-limited-and-collectors-edition-box-sets

Oops, meant to link to the KS update - will try link from the Tweet:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/froggodgames/swords-and-wizardry-limited-and-collectors-edition-box-sets/posts/2759843

Original tweet:

Frog God Games has partnered with the non-profit organization DOTS RPG Project @dotsrpg to make accessible, screen-reader friendly PDFs for the Swords & Wizardry Kickstarter.
Read the full article here: kickstarter.com/projects/frogg…
#AccessibilityInGaming #dnd #rpg #ttrpg #gaming

[Varsuuk]

Near the end, if can get that ending BUMP, be nice to hit the newly added Stretch Goals they did as they passed 70K:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/froggodgames/swords-and-wizardry-limited-and-collectors-edition-box-sets/description

Spread the word - unfortunately, I am only ever on this forum and even that is limited due to my lack of time-management ability ;)

[Varsuuk]

Last 12 hours :)

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/froggodgames/swords-and-wizardry-limited-and-collectors-edition-box-sets

[kevdog45]

Is this just a fancy version of 1st edition?

[Varsuuk]

Is this just a fancy version of 1st edition?

Actually, it is more like a version of the Dungeons & Dragons Original Rules (commonly referred to as 0E)

Except it isn’t vanilla 0E or even the version that includes just all 4?5? Supplements. It is a snapshot of D&D from 1978 just before the release of 1E (it includes the supplements (missing gods and illusionist) & materials from Dragon articles and the like as well.) it has some small changes and optional house rules but pretty much it is a reorg of those original rules in a much easier/cleaner consistent format.