Tenkar's Tavern: Prepping My RPG Vacation Package

Friday, June 29, 2012

Prepping My RPG Vacation Package

I'm on vacation next week and I'm putting together my RPG Reading Package for the days I'll be in the Poconos. My expectation is to get a decent amount of reading (and writing) in, especially in the mornings and nights

So far, I'm bringing the Dungeon Crawl Classic RPG Rulebook and Free RPG Day Adventures, The One War and Cosmic Patrol Quick Starts and possibly my ACKS Rulebook.

I'll also be bringing my iPad and my Kindle Fire for reading the other DCC adventures I have in PDF (still waiting on DCCs 68 + 69 to arrive in dead tree).

Hopefully I'll remember to bring Feltothraxis along for the ride (I left he behind last time I went away - for shame).

Oh, and a set of funny dice, as I may try to put my wife through a "short funnel" of sorts with a sheet of newbs - this is a possibility only, it depends on how the week goes. Wait, there's that card based RPG I picked up a few months ago - that might entice her.

Shit, where am I going to put the clothes for the trip?

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The Happy WhiskJune 29, 2012 at 6:42 PM
You aren't going to have room for clothes or toothpaste, at this rate.

Happy Vacation & Boogie Boogie.
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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, June 29, 2012

Prepping My RPG Vacation Package

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