Swords & Wizardry Creative Guild In 2006, Greywulf was a user of Oddmuse, a piece of software I was maintaining. It’s still used to run this blog/wiki. Greywulf kept talking about D&D and eventually I started reading EN World. There, I discovered Greywulf had a huge thread going. He proposed a minimal variant to D&D 3.5 and called it M20 (original files). I loved it and ended up starting a campaign using it. (It later converted to D&D 3.5.)
Swords & Wizardry Creative Guild
Swords & Wizardry Creative Guild
In 2008, I came across M74 and discovered the “old school renaissance”. I learned about OD&D and its use of a d6 for hit-dice and weapon damage. I was intrigued and wrote M20 Hard Core.
Some blog posts from back then:
2008-04-20 Palace of the Silver Princess
2008-10-14 Cannot Please Them All
0e Swords & Wizardry Monster Book
(You can get the source files from the Swords & Wizardry download page.)
Swords & Wizardry download page
I was *very impressed* by **Ruins & Ronin**. If you check out the Sword+1 blog, you’ll find lots of R&R character classes for download in the sidebar. It really was an eye opener for me. Anything can be turned into a class! This is *Do It Yourself D&D!*
These days, I still play Labyrinth Lord. It was my first retro-clone. It didn’t have weird elves. I ended up liking race-as-class. As you can see from the list above, however, OD&D and Swords & Wizardry have been an important part of the journey. And I absolutely *loved* the Peter Mullen covers!
Today is Swords & Wizardry Appreciation Day Blogfest! Follow the link and find a list of more than 100 other blogs writing about S&W.
Swords & Wizardry Appreciation Day Blogfest
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