Tenkar's Tavern: Random Monday Madness

Monday, March 22, 2010

Random Monday Madness

Sigh.

Spent the weekend going thru bouts of food poisoning. Not fun.

Still, I'm home and I'm finally able to appreciate Fight On! #8. Is it just me or is the artwork getting better and better? 7 bucks for the PDF is a steal for the amount of material that is packed into this issue. I do have one little quibble... hyperlinks... why are there no hyperlinks in the PDF? Yeah, I can copy and paste the link, but a hyperlink makes it effortless. No biggie. More curious then anything.

Nice. Thunder and Lightning here in NYC at the moment.

Just got the complete Little Rascals DVD collection delivered earlier today. Hmmm, that could make for the setting of a simple and silly RPG at some point. Backburnering that ;)

Trying to track down my sources of free and cheap old school RPG material. Might take a wee bit.

See, I told you it was going to be random.

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ChristianMarch 22, 2010 at 10:11 PM
Hope you feel better, man.
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TenkarMarch 22, 2010 at 10:24 PM
I went thru all 3 stages:

Denial

Acceptance

Pissing from my Ass ;)
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Why "Swords & Wizardry?"

Believe me when I say I have them all in dead tree format. I have OSRIC in full size, trade paperback and the Player's Guide. I have LL and the AEC (and somewhere OEC, but I can't find it at the moment). Obviously I have Basic Fantasy RPG. Actually, I have the whole available line in print. Way too much Castles & Crusades. We all know my love for the DCC RPG. I even have Dark Dungeons in print, the Delving Deeper boxed set, Astonishing Swordsmen & Sorcerers of Hyperborea. BOTH editions of LotFP's Weird Fantasy and some dead tree copies of the Greyhawk Grognards Adventures Dark & Deep

I am so deep in the OSR when I come up for breath it's for the OSR's cousin, Tunnels & Trolls

So, out of all that, why Swords & Wizardry? Why, when I have been running a AD&D 1e / OSRIC campaign in Rappan Athuk am I using Swords & Wizardry and it's variant, Crypts & Things, for the second campaign? (Actually, now running a S&W Complete campaign, soon to be with multiple groups)

Because the shit works.

It's easy for lapsed gamers to pick up and feel like they haven't lost a step. I can house rule it and it doesn't break. It plays so close to the AD&D of my youth and college years (S&W Complete especially) that it continually surprises me. Just much less rules hopping than I remember. (my God but I can run it nearly without the book)

I grab and pick and steal from just about all OSR and Original resources. They seem to fit into S&W with little fuss. It may be the same with LL and the rest, but for me the ease of use fit's my expectations with S&W.

Even the single saving throw. That took me longer to adjust to, but even that seems like a natural to me now. Don't ask me why, it just does. Maybe it's the simplicity of it. At 45 52, simplicity and flexibility while remaining true to the feel of the original is an OSR hat trick for me ;)

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