Tenkar's Tavern: The Trollish Taproom

Saturday, April 2, 2011

The Trollish Taproom - Spillin' Some Beer

I've been working on two rooms at home, trying to turn them into a new master bedroom. One room has been used mostly for storage, and i placed a bottle of Levitation Ale on top of a box of my Tunnels & Trolls collection as I was removing wallpaper and scraping down the molding.

It was secure, at least until my cat Ashely poked her head out of the closet and knocked it over. Yep, my Trolls had some beer tonight.

Sigh. At least beer doesn't make pages sticky like soda, and they smell good now ;)

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ze buletteApril 2, 2011 at 11:15 PM
Ha! I christened my OSRIC hardcover the other night with some ale myself. It's ok. Protection against evil and all that.
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TenkarApril 2, 2011 at 11:52 PM
Her expression was priceless: Looked at me, back at the pooling beer, back at me... "Meerrrow?"

I couldn't get mad
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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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Saturday, April 2, 2011

The Trollish Taproom - Spillin' Some Beer

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