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Posted By : Thermight - 7/19/2007 4:25 PM
A very higly (the most) regarded S&S game is Sorcerer & Sword (a supplement to Sorcerer) by Ron Edwards:
http://www.sorcerer-rpg.com/product.php/sword.html

Also check out Blood & Steel mini supplement for OctaNe:
http://www.memento-mori.com/octane/

Posted By : nightlamp - 8/15/2007 2:54 PM
Ron Edwards' book is fantastic. I'm not a huge fan of the Sorcerer system, but S&S is a great resource for any fantasy GM.

I would heartily recommend the Wilderlands of High Fantasy box set published by Necromancer Games and Judges Guild. It's listed as a D20 game, but 99% of the content is system-neutral. 18 hex maps and two books of encounters that can easily be ported to the system of your choice. The setting has a distinct S&S feel, with lots of crumbling ruins, decadent city-states, weird cults, strange monsters, etc.; kind of a Conan-meets-Sinbad with scattered SF elements. WoHF also has the distinction of being the first published campaign setting for D&D, dating back to 1976.
 
 
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Posted By : jonesha - 8/15/2007 11:59 PM
Hey guys,

SwordandSorcery.org is pretty much on hiatus -- I haven't had time to update it since I started work for Black Gate.

I'm always up for reviews for Black Gate, however, and if you guys are interested in reviewing these products, I might be interested in pubbing them in BG.

Let me know.

best,
Howard


Editor-in-Chief<br>www.swordandsorcery.org


Posted By : H.P. Lovesauce - 8/16/2007 9:30 AM
Might be an idea. Mongoose has produced a Conan D20 game, and now is making Eternal Champion games for their version of RuneQuest.

Plus if Nightlamp is a Forgie, he'll know about Burning Wheel and The Riddle of Steel.

Posted By : nightlamp - 8/16/2007 1:43 PM
H.P. Lovesauce said...
Plus if Nightlamp is a Forgie, he'll know about Burning Wheel and The Riddle of Steel.
I know about those games (and have heard lots of good things), but I've never played either of them.  Another newcomer to consider is Pinnacle's Solomon Kane license for their very pulpy Savage Worlds game, appropriately titled "The Savage World of Solomon Kane"; the game will be unveiled this weekend at GenCon Indy...  The new RQ games look pretty cool, but are a bit too costly for my taste-- I still have a bunch of old RQ2 and Stormbringer stuff so I'm probably not going to buy in. 
 
I would probably be up for writing some game reviews; it depends on how busy I am with school and work though.  We'll see what happens...

Posted By : Kane - 3/3/2008 3:40 PM
Another game that I would recommend to anyone interested in a sword and sorcery game is Pinnacle's [url=http://www.peginc.com/Games/SavageWorlds/Kane/Main.htm]Savage World of Solomon Kane[/url].
As the title indicates, it is a game designed to allow the players to explore the world of Howard's Solomon Kane.
While most would not think of the setting as a S&S setting, don't be fooled. This is still a world with dark magics, ancient ruins, un-natural creatures, and evil individuals who make pacts with dark forces.
 
Although using the Savage Worlds rule system, this is a complete book. All the rules and alterations to the base SW system are here. Including a revised magic system that captures the feel of dark brooding power from beyond the Outer Dark.
 
  


You say God's spark has kindled my eye,
As the sun-rise reddens the east;
Into your beards I roar the lie-
'Tis the gleam of the stalking beast.
Robert E. Howard


Posted By : H.P. Lovesauce - 3/18/2008 11:56 AM
I have a hinky feeling about PEG and Savage Worlds, much though I love Solomon Kane.

My bet for S&S gaming is based on the game Sorcerer; I'd get the Sorcerer & Sword supplement and its killer app, the Dictionary of Mu campaign setting.

Posted By : nightlamp - 6/2/2008 4:08 PM
Hey guys, it's been a while since I've checked in here... I recently stumbled across ZeFRS, derived from Zeb Cook's Conan RPG published by TSR in the 1980s. All references to Conan and Hyboria have been removed, but that doesn't reduce its S&S appeal. I haven't played it yet but it seems fairly rules-light, with some novel (for its time) approaches to character creation and magic. I'm really amped to give this game a shot.

Posted By : H.P. Lovesauce - 6/17/2008 10:44 AM
Thanks for that, nightlamp. My jaw dropped when I saw he'd basically created "mook rules". I wonder how this would work with the Dictionary of Mu.

Posted By : Hearthweru - 10/9/2008 8:41 AM
H.P. Lovesauce said...
I have a hinky feeling about PEG and Savage Worlds, much though I love Solomon Kane.

My bet for S&S gaming is based on the game Sorcerer; I'd get the Sorcerer & Sword supplement and its killer app, the Dictionary of Mu campaign setting.

PEG is a quality set up. Customer support is excellent and they're a really friendly and accessible bunch of guys. Savage Worlds is a very good system for cinematic games (it can do gritty but not as well as other systems). It 'reads' bland but it 'plays' really well, and The Solomon Kane book is a thing of beauty. Having said that, you can't go wrong with Sorcerer & Sword and Dictionary of Mu. Chaosium's Basic RolePlaying or Mongoose's Runequest (both are pretty much the same system) are a great match for S&S roleplaying too.


 
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