Tenkar's Tavern: There Are Not Enough Days in the Week

Monday, June 11, 2012

There Are Not Enough Days in the Week

It looks like the DCC RPG Arc is being well received. So well, in fact, that unless a second GM suddenly appears (hint hint) I'll be running a second DCC RPG Arc in July. It's physically impossible for me to run the second group concurrent with the first.

I'll do a quick poll of the first 6 that responded over at UA-LC.com and see if any want to defer until July, but somehow I doubt it. Good news is that there are still slots for the 2nd DCC RPG Arc.

The guys from my old face to face group (and later a slightly expanded MMORPG group) have viewed Saturday's video of my ACKS campaign via Google+ Hangout and Tabletop Forge and it looks like that group might be resurrecting after a 15 year intermission.

I need a longer week ;)

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WelleranJune 11, 2012 at 4:31 PM
I'd like to stick with June...July might be problematic!
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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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There Are Not Enough Days in the Week

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