Tenkar's Tavern: Wrapping Up the First Half of My Vacation

Tuesday, July 3, 2012

Wrapping Up the First Half of My Vacation - The Productive Half is Coming Up

My wife has to go back to work on Thursday, so we are heading back to the city tomorrow. The time in the country has been great for brainstorming, not so hot for actually putting pen to paper (or fingers to keyboard).

Tomorrow night, all day thursday and friday day time I'll (hopefully) be getting some productive writing time in. I have lots of ideas bouncing around my head, and little time to put them down. Thankfully they seem to be lodge in pretty good, and the scribbled notes should serve to jar them loose when necessary.
No DCC Ducks, at least not yet. Soon though.

No one says you have to play with ducks ;)

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ScrivenerBJuly 3, 2012 at 9:28 PM
Ducks...oh lord. I suggest you use Daffy rather than Donald as inspiration. If you're going for something so full-blast silly you might as well pull out all the stops!
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Erik TenkarJuly 3, 2012 at 10:23 PM
maybe based on Howard the Duck ;)

actually, will be based on the old RuneQuest Duck race
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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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Wrapping Up the First Half of My Vacation - The Productive Half is Coming Up

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