I'm looking to start a collection of those OD&D clones (aka simulacra) that are published as white box sets, as well as digest-sized supplements.

Do any of you know which rules sets are available in this format?
 
The most common OSR rules appear to be:
 
OSRIC
Basic Fantasy RPG
Swords & Wizardry
Spellcraft & Swordplay
Microlite 74 or 75
Labyrinth Lord
Dark Dungeons
 
I love box sets (OD&D, C&C, Traveller) and would be interested to hear thoughts from other collectors.

Keith

Keith the Thief wrote:I'm looking to start a collection of those OD&D clones (aka simulacra) that are published as white box sets, as well as digest-sized supplements.

Good luck.  Only Swords & Wizardry and Spellcraft & Swordplay came in box sets.  The S&W box set may be easy to get a hold of since there were quite a few printed and a few people have more than one copy.  The other one may be difficult at best since only 30 were made.

There are two box sets that are supposed to be coming out sometime this year from Brave Halfling Publishing.  Delving Deeper and X-Plorers.

http://bravehalfling.com/?page_id=812
http://bravehalfling.com/?page_id=827

Kingofpain89 wrote:
Good luck.  Only Swords & Wizardry and Spellcraft & Swordplay came in box sets.  The S&W box set may be easy to get a hold of since there were quite a few printed and a few people have more than one copy.  The other one may be difficult at best since only 30 were made.

There are two box sets that are supposed to be coming out sometime this year from Brave Halfling Publishing.  Delving Deeper and X-Plorers.

http://bravehalfling.com/?page_id=812
http://bravehalfling.com/?page_id=827

And there were different variants on the S&W boxed sets. One that I can remember was a special "referee bundle" that came with extras copies of the Character and Spells booklets. I doubt if there were differences in the books or box, but it was sold as a separate set.

There was also a boxed set from Carcosa (spelling?), but it was extremely limited like the Spellcraft & Swordplay set.

Kingofpain89 wrote:
Good luck.  Only Swords & Wizardry and Spellcraft & Swordplay came in box sets.  The S&W box set may be easy to get a hold of since there were quite a few printed and a few people have more than one copy.  The other one may be difficult at best since only 30 were made.

Yeah, it's a challenge to say the least.
This is one of those "just for fun" endeavors.

I *would* love to find an S&S set, but that's probably a pipe dream.

Keith

Kingofpain89 wrote:As for the Carcosa boxed set, only 10 of them were made.  And again I assumed they were made specifically for friends of the author.  And I dont really consider it to be a retro-clone or simulacrum.  More of an expansion to the original rules.  I'd be curious to find out what differs rulewise between the box set and the regular release.

I'd like to see the regular release, too.  This is an OD&D rules set in an alternate Lovecraft universe?   That'd be cool.

Kingofpain89 wrote:
http://lotfp.blogspot.com/2010/10/lotfp ... 99b8be9348

You'll be able to get Carcosa again pretty soon.  James Raggi is releasing a new version of it later this year.

And thus it should be pointed out that there are two versions of Lamentations Of The Flame Princess box sets (white no, OSR yes).

Hmmm, I missed the news about a Carcosa boxed set:  thanks John, will have to look at that later.

GreyM wrote:The sad thing is we don't really have an idea of what its worth either. Just PM me if interested to keep this thread on topic.

Ebay it, several of us, including me, will be on it for sure

Keith the Thief wrote:
I'd like to see the regular release, too.  This is an OD&D rules set in an alternate Lovecraft universe?   That'd be cool.

I don't know about the expanded Carcosa boxed set.  I can tell you about the original Carcosa supplement....

It was not a rules booklet.  Rather, it was intended as an extension of the original Greyhawk, Blackmoor, Eldritch Wizardry, Gods-Demigods and Swords and Spells supplement line.  You can see it described on the boxed set cover as "Supplement V."

Carcosa was Lovecraftian in the sense that it is a wierd and hopeless place out of a Lovecraft Dreamworld setting.

A large portion of the book is used up on various spells a wizard can cast after performing lengthy rituals involving, rape, human sacrifice, torture and sexual abuse of children...usually all at the same time.

It was enough to bother me, and I wouldn't regard myself as politically correct or easily offended.

I don't think Geoffrey McKinney meant it all to be taken seriously, but it was not a nice publication.

The Carcosa boxed set was obviously done as a very limited run because of its clear use of TSR-owned artwork and probably other TSR intellectual properties.

Still, I wish I had one of the 10 limited edition boxed sets....