Tenkar's Tavern: Spartacus: Gods of the Arena (Not Quite What I Expected)

Sunday, February 6, 2011

Spartacus: Gods of the Arena (Not Quite What I Expected)

I thought, perchance, I would be watching something other then soft porn. It did have some nice fight scenes, sex, drugs, booze, full frontal nudity... sigh.

Kinda caught me off guard with my son in the next room.

Not what I expected. Not saying it was bad, just not sure what it was supposed to be.

Ah well, killed time before the Super Bowl ;)

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limpeyFebruary 7, 2011 at 10:49 PM
Hah! I feel your pain, brother! My Significant Other was watching one of her girly TV shows about relationships and betrayal("Big Love") so I retreated to the study to play on the computer. Saw your post and decided to check it out. 'Spartacus: Gods of the Arena' was on Netflix... so I kicked back to watch.
She later walked in to see me watching one gladiator giving another the Roman version of a 'sack tap' which seemed to involve a lot of grabbing and twisting of the contents of his loincloth.
The more I tried to explain the worse it got.
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TenkarFebruary 7, 2011 at 10:54 PM
It was like watching a train wreck... I had to see the episode to the end.

If I watch again, I'll be home alone, but I didn't find the story ( what there was) all that compelling.
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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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