I’m somewhat embarrassed that, in my recent post about the current Zothique kickstarter, that I failed to mention the excellent “Old School” swords-and-sorcery roleplaying game, Crypts and Things. Not only is C&T a great game, but it’s also one to which I contributed (albeit indirectly), as the author, Newt Newport, drew upon a number of my swords-and-sorcery house rules for Swords and Wizardry.
[The Sorcerer from the C&T book]
Crypts and Things aims to emulate the works of authors like Clark Ashton Smith – as well as, of course, Robert E. Howard, H. P. Lovecraft, Fritz Leiber, and the like. Indeed, CAS’s stories were a significant inspiration for my original house rules. So, it should be easy to run adventures set in Zothique using C&T.
(I have to confess that I remain a little vexed that Newt misspelt my nom de plume “Araskia” in the revised version of C&T ... but I’m trying my best not to be too petty these days.)
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