Tenkar's Tavern: Stepping Into the New Year

Saturday, January 1, 2011

Stepping Into the New Year - Right Into the Poop

First things first... today is the last day to enter the contest you see on the top of this page. I think I'm adding a few more copies of Bean! the RPG to the pot, so more winners, and of course, all who post to the comment thread with a pick or two get added to the big prize of over $125 in RPG PDFs courtesy of RPGNow.

Here's the poop. I ordered stuff frfom Outlaw Press and received the package yesterday. The latest Hobbit Hole mag, the last 2 Dungeonier mags, T&T 6th Edition and another piece or two I cant recall. Why am I stepping into the minefield of poop surrounding Outlaw Press? Because a good 75% of the stuff being released for T&T recently is from their hands. I need to see for myself.

So far, from what I've seen, it pretty decent quality stuff. I need to dig deeper, but i'm impressed so far. More once I've read thru it a bit. Cleaning my shoes now.

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trothJanuary 2, 2011 at 12:15 AM
My first T&T product was around this time last year. Someone gave me a Barnes & Noble giftcard, and the only version of Tunnels & Trolls they had was M6E. I got it, we started playing, and we loved it! Then I started reading posts over at Trollbridge and realized that I had stepped in something too.

Oh well, It hooked me, and I got my v7.5 box about a month later.

I don't think Skolari Vaults is published anywhere other than the T&T Campaign book by Outlaw, but I could be wrong.
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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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Stepping Into the New Year - Right Into the Poop

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