I know there are a couple of people who are assembling collections of the Swords & Wizardry product line. Just to alert you from the collector standpoint, when Frog God Games starts selling the existing modules (Ice Tower of the Salka, Spire of Iron and Crystal), those will be distinct new editions with new cartography and artwork. Also, Tomb of the Iron God, if it doesn't get discontinued, will also have new art and maps.

I think copies of the original printings of those three modules are still available at Black Blade and Noble Knight (not sure about T&T, but I think T&T bought some, too). If you are putting together a full collection, those three modules in their original form will be out of print and replaced with a different "edition."

If there is any leftover stock from Black Blade at the time of the Frog God releases, it will eventually go to Frog God and be put up for sale, but I don't know if there will be any.

This is probably only of interest to the few collectors who are doing Swords & Wizardry collections or following the Necromancer product lines (in which case the S&W stuff is a "predecessor" type of thingy), but since this fact isn't out there in the public eye, I thought I would mention it since it's relevant to a collection.

Also, I forgot - if Frog God publishes the Core Rules, although they will be identical as to rules, the Frog God edition will have the Black Blade company-information filed off the cover (different ISBN, no BBP logo). That also might be relevant. And I really want to correct the typo where wild boars are listed as "wild boards."

Mythmere1 wrote:I really want to correct the typo where wild boars are listed as "wild boards."

I thought they were supposed to be "wild broads."

sauromatian wrote:
I thought they were supposed to be "wild broads."

I'd buy that version.

Mythmere1 wrote:Apparently, when the typo-gods rolled the dice, the 50% chance decreed that there would be lots of free-range lumber instead of loose ladies.

So it really is "wild boars"? Oh my. I've been running them in my campaign as "wild broads." Wait until I tell my players that the creatures they thought were nymphs are actually pigs ..male pigs. This could lead to an uncomfortable identity crisis. If it should require years of therapy to clear up, which publisher is liable for the damages?

Mythmere1 wrote:I know there are a couple of people who are assembling collections of the Swords & Wizardry product line. Just to alert you from the collector standpoint, when Frog God Games starts selling the existing modules (Ice Tower of the Salka, Spire of Iron and Crystal), those will be distinct new editions with new cartography and artwork. Also, Tomb of the Iron God, if it doesn't get discontinued, will also have new art and maps.

I think copies of the original printings of those three modules are still available at Black Blade and Noble Knight (not sure about T&T, but I think T&T bought some, too). If you are putting together a full collection, those three modules in their original form will be out of print and replaced with a different "edition."

If there is any leftover stock from Black Blade at the time of the Frog God releases, it will eventually go to Frog God and be put up for sale, but I don't know if there will be any.

This is probably only of interest to the few collectors who are doing Swords & Wizardry collections or following the Necromancer product lines (in which case the S&W stuff is a "predecessor" type of thingy), but since this fact isn't out there in the public eye, I thought I would mention it since it's relevant to a collection.

Also, I forgot - if Frog God publishes the Core Rules, although they will be identical as to rules, the Frog God edition will have the Black Blade company-information filed off the cover (different ISBN, no BBP logo). That also might be relevant. And I really want to correct the typo where wild boars are listed as "wild boards."

This is something of an update and a 'last call' of sorts.

Black Blade Publishing still has copies of the various Swords & Wizardry products Matt released through Black Blade, including the modules, the Core Rules, all issues of Knockspell, and the DM resources Eldritch Weirdness 3-1 compilation and Mythmere's Adventure Design Deskbooks Volume 1 and Volume 2.  

These should be available through our online store for about another week, through December 31.  But after December 31, the remaining stock will be sent to Matt and/or Bill to sell through Frog God Games.

Thanks to all of you here at the Acaeum that have supported Swords & Wizardry and Black Blade Publishing over the past year and a half.

-- Jon