So, out of all that, why Swords & Wizardry ? Why, when I have been running a AD&D 1e / OSRIC campaign in Rappan Athuk am I using Swords & Wizardry and it's variant, Crypts & Things, for the second campaign? (Actually, now running a S&W Complete campaign, soon to be with multiple groups) I am so deep in the OSR when I come up for breath it's for the OSR's cousin, Tunnels & Trolls BOTH editions of LotFP's Weird Fantasy and some dead tree copies of the Greyhawk Grognards Adventures Dark & Deep I even have Dark Dungeons in print, the Delving Deeper boxed set, Astonishing Swordsmen & Sorcerers of Hyperborea. Actually, I have the whole available line in print. I have LL and the AEC (and somewhere OEC, but I can't find it at the moment). I have OSRIC in full size, trade paperback and the Player's Guide. Reply Deleteīelieve me when I say I have them all in dead tree format. Of course, for people who don't want to do that the FG devs continue to hint that they have been in talks with WoTC and are confident they'll be able to offer these things with an official license in the future. But, once it's all in it really is very slick and easy to use. I can then drag and drop monsters from the monster manual module straight into the combat tracker, have it roll random hit points and their initiative for me, and then drag those onto a map with the included token.Ĭreating your own modules with the parser does take some time and has a bit of a learning curve. right onto the character sheet and have it create the abilities for them. When my players and I use Fantasy Grounds they are able to drag and drop their class, spells, items, backgrounds, ect.

So, I have both the entire PHB and the Monster Manual parsed because I have OCR'd PDFs made from my books. So, they provide a parsing program that allows you to create the modules yourself, which is perfectly legal, and the rules framework then knows how to interpret that information. They can't do that, legally speaking, because of the copyright on the Basic Rules PDF. What it doesn't do is provide you with the Basic Rules or the PHB/Monster Manual. It understands how to interpret 5e information and provides some basic functionality (e.g.

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