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I assumed we were just talking about after we were all done cheating. :) My characters in 5th grade *somehow* managed to elude death a billion times. By 6th grade ... not so much.

One of the things drawing people to various retro-clones is that there are new and fresh product lines that can be used with the old games or directly with the clone rules, either way. BFRPG has a good line of modules, and they're free in pdf form. OSRIC is supported by Expeditious Retreat...

What, you mean just because there's a private graveyard out back of the farmhouse? I don't think we're up to more than about six graves, are we?

Swords & Wizardry fits into the category if you've played D&D before, but otherwise it's more complex than, say, Microlite.

Knockspell is very likely to go to a print distribution next issue instead of using lulu. They managed to tick me off yet again today...

Swords & Wizardry.

Actually, I suppose that if I'm going to shill Knockspell Magazine with links to reviews, I might as well go whole hog and link to the product page. This is the link to the whole storefront, since the magazine's available in perfect-bound, saddle-stitch, and pdf: Swords and Wizardry's...

Knockspell's a bit younger, and not as widely known - it's only at issue #2. Reviews of Knockspell #2: At Grognardia: GROGNARDIA: REVIEW: Knockspell #2 At Trollsmyth: Trollsmyth: Knockspell First Impressions My favorite quote is "Holy-freakin'-wowser!" :)

Pete Mullen is the artist for the Swords & Wizardry game covers, and his work definitely rocks. He also did the Swords & Wizardry WhiteBox cover, the cover for the 0e/S&W Monster Book, and the cover for The Spire of Iron and Crystal (a module). His work is also featured on Guy Fullerton's 1e...

Swords & Wizardry (0e): I clicked on "Old D&D Variant," although OD&D would have been another possibility.

The removal of the pdfs created a bump, but not as big as the bump when 4e came out. Most of the retro clone material in print is sold through lulu.com. For example, the Swords & Wizardry storefront is at Swords and Wizardry's Storefront - Lulu.com. In fact, at the moment, Swords & Wizardry...

Thanks! Also, there's now a discount from Lulu: If you type in MAYCONTEST10 in the coupon code on a print product, and you're in one of the right countries, you get 10% off the listed prices.

I'm probably stating the obvious when I say that there's no one "profile" of a retro-clone gamer, or of players who play the underlying original games. For some people it's about what the rules cover (there's a changing emphasis on this across the editions), for some people it's about how...

The Swords & Wizardry Storefront: Swords and Wizardry's Storefront - Lulu.com Knockspell Magazine Issue #2 is now on sale at the Swords & Wizardry storefront, Swords and Wizardry's Storefront - Lulu.com. This issue contains dungeon design advice from both Allan Grohe and Philotomy Jurament, an...

We're getting very close - the layout artist tells me he'll have proofs by tomorrow. From that point, it could literally be as short as a day or as long as a couple of weeks depending on the various little factors involved. One of these is rather critical - the formation of the nonprofit...

In addition to the ones in the Free Downloads area on the Swords & Wizardry site, Skathros's site is probably the largest collection The S&W Companion: Welcome to The Swords & Wizardry Companion and then there are others at: “The Outlook is Grim” The Outlook is Grim “Ubiquitous Orcs” Ubiquitous...

I'm really looking forward to when this stage of projects begins to get completed and starts to show up. When the really new stuff, as opposed to the springboard-material I've mostly been working on, starts to appear then the project will really be underway. That's the true starting point of...

I'm on a somewhat drunken ramble across the internet right now, in a rage about WotC pulling the pdfs of OD&D. But I love you guys.

It's a cr***py day, that's for sure. As to the retroclones, I'd always hoped that was just what we lawyers call a "belt AND suspenders" strategy. It looks like (in terms of bringing in new players), they are a bit more important now, which (as an author of a couple) sucks. For OD&D, quite a...

Howandwhy nailed the question pretty well, I think. Couldn't have said it better myself.