{"id":156,"date":"2015-11-19T12:44:55","date_gmt":"2015-11-19T12:44:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.immersiveink.com\/?p=156"},"modified":"2015-11-22T00:57:54","modified_gmt":"2015-11-22T00:57:54","slug":"photo-by-ways-oftheearth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immersiveink.com\/?p=156","title":{"rendered":"Here’s a Thing"},"content":{"rendered":"

(That’s never likely to be seen beyond this post).<\/p>\n

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Two Copies of Eyre Tor<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

 <\/p>\n

So what the frig is Eyre Tor??\u00a0Or more appropriately, what was<\/i> it?<\/p>\n

Way back–before I’d ever heard of the #DelvingDeeper<\/a> project–I apparently had a bit of time on my hands. Around 2007-2008, I was running a D&D campaign that included face-to-face play with a couple of disconnected groups, as well as some play-by-email. Fair to say, I think, this campaign was part of my early “retro” gaming scene experience. I was already prone to assembling detailed rules booklets for passingly interested players, but here was a new opportunity to indulge two of passions at once: a retro-rules booklet? I was hopelessly into it.<\/p>\n

Between 2007 and 2010 there must have been six incrementally more complete drafts of Eyre Tor, culminating in a version 6.1 (depicted above) with its glorious cover and interior art by Tim Ide. But now I have just the two hard copies.<\/p>\n

It’s kinda fun to browse thru it, looking back at how I must have been thinking about OD&D and house rules back then. Check out the audacious caption younger-me put on the inside cover of the final draft (2010):<\/p>\n

\"Eyre
Eyre Tor Inside Cover<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Campaign Setting & Supplementary Rules Options\r\n for use with\r\n The Original 1974 Fantasy Role Playing Game\r\n and its Modern Simulacra<\/pre>\n<\/blockquote>\n
I’ll have to remember that \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n
Inside there are some rules I question now, but there are also some that I’m still using today.\u00a0The 10 second flyby of my then-house-rules:<\/p>\n
* Three alignments (good, selfish, evil),
\n* Fauns as a player race,
\n* Rangers, Barbarians, Templars, Men of Faith\/Sisters of Mercy as player classes, including new level titles for all player types,
\n* Silver standard, 1gp = 6sp = 36cp,
\n* Expanded equipment lists, poor\/good\/exceptional quality gear,
\n* Imperial loads\/coarse-grained encumbrance,
\n* A bunch of complicated (and unnecessary?) combat rules,
\n* Whole new lists for spell levels 1-4 with spells such as The Irreproachable Susurrus<\/i> , \u00a0The Fiat Libation<\/em>, The Inconceivable Perspicacity<\/i> and The Confabulation of Lucid Colloquy<\/i> to name but of few from a list of 70-ish mysteriously named incantations.<\/p>\n
So still some potentially interesting stuff in there.<\/p>\n
Perhaps ironically, I did approach both Matt Finch and John Adams with the prospect of pushing Eyre Tor as a S&W or White Box supplement, but neither had capacity to take it on back in 2009-2010. In retrospect, that may have been quite fortunate–ultimately, it meant that I had capacity to help on #DelvingDeeper<\/a> V1 in 2012.<\/p>\n
Enjoy!<\/p>\n
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(That’s never likely to be seen beyond this post).   So what the frig is Eyre Tor??\u00a0Or more appropriately, what was it? Way back–before I’d ever heard of the #DelvingDeeper project–I apparently had a bit of time on my hands. 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