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Thursday, June 14, 2012

Silly Me, I Had Actual Thoughts! :)

Silly me. I've agreed to write a few pieces for an RPG sourcebook. Always time this for when you are planning to kick off a second weekly night of running RPGs, because as we all know GMs have WAY too much prep time ;)

Amazingly enough, I thought up some decent stuff during the first ten minutes of my morning commute. Which left me thirty more minutes of driving before I could write anything down. Thirty dangerous potentially forgetful minutes...

I think I may drop one or two of today's thoughts into my ACKS campaign over the next session or two as sort of a playtest. If any folks can push and prod and find creative uses, it's my players.

Oh, and I got mentioned in The Grumpy Celt's latest video blog. I think it's time to wake up Feltothraxis from his long dragon-like hibernation...

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ravencrowkingJune 14, 2012 at 4:09 PM
I look forward to hearing more details.
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Koren nRhysJune 14, 2012 at 4:20 PM
Don't you HATE that? I seem to think of all sorts of good stuff when I'm in bed, or the shower, and it's gone by the time I have a chance to write anything down.
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Tim ShortsJune 14, 2012 at 6:59 PM
An actual thought! How dare you! And I think it's long, long over due to allow Feltothraxis out of his den.
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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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Silly Me, I Had Actual Thoughts! :)

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