Tenkar's Tavern: Sitting At the Local Doc in a Box

Sunday, January 8, 2012

Sitting At the Local Doc in a Box

What every mega dungeon needs is a Doc in a Box. Why leave the dungeon when you can reup on healing without leaving the adventure?

Wish me luck. It the same place I took my wife when she broke one foot and sprained the opposite ankle.

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Tim KnightJanuary 8, 2012 at 11:00 AM
Hope it's nothing serious. Take care.
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christianJanuary 8, 2012 at 12:01 PM
If this was Shadowrun, you could just press your life alert button (or whatever it is) and summon Doc Wagon to come pick you up.

I hope you feel better soon.

PS: Can you flash your badge to get to the front of the sick line? That would be awesome. :)
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Spawn of EndraJanuary 8, 2012 at 12:44 PM
I thought "Doc in a Box" was referring to the Holmes Basic Box Set. Apparently not. I hope you feel better.
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Erik TenkarJanuary 8, 2012 at 2:28 PM
I love my Doc in a Box. Back to work on wed. 7 days of sulfaethox. phew
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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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Sunday, January 8, 2012

Sitting At the Local Doc in a Box

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