Tenkar's Tavern: The Original 7 - Quick Peek at My OD&D Collection

Friday, March 2, 2012

The Original 7 - Quick Peek at My OD&D Collection

As I'll be reading the core three from the OD&D Boxed Set from cover to cover over the weekend, I figured I'd take a quick pic to show off my collection.

I still need to pick up Eldritch Wizardry, Gods Demi-Gods & Heroes and Swords & Spells to finish off the collection.

Oh, and I picked up the dragons at A.C. Moore last fall at dirt cheap prices. I figured that they deserved a shot at the limelight ;)

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5stonegamesMarch 2, 2012 at 8:47 PM
Cool. They are good shape too .

I sold my OD&D books some years back.

Given that I sold them to ENWorlds local OD&D guy who would use them all the time and cherish them I am pretty OK with that.
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Erik TenkarMarch 2, 2012 at 8:48 PM
yep, that is the way to let go if you are going to do so :)
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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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Friday, March 2, 2012

The Original 7 - Quick Peek at My OD&D Collection

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