Tenkar's Tavern: Renovations in Progress

Tuesday, August 14, 2012

Renovations in Progress

Thanks to Scott Ackerman, The Tavern has a new header. Really, really awesome work.

It does remind me though that The Tavern is overdue for a cleaning. Now that it has a new sign, I need to work on other stuff - cleaning out the blogroll of dead or orphaned blogs, check the links to the left to make sure they are still accurate, trim out some of the dead weight, maybe change the layout... lots of stuff to look at.

Don't tell anyone, but I find myself constantly opening up my blog's page just to look at the new header art. Can't wait to see it on the 27" screen, not the 7" tablet. ;)

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New Big DragonAugust 14, 2012 at 6:48 PM
Dig the new header!

Also, I sent you an email the other day regarding a new link to my RPG "The System" in the sidebar. Let me know if you got it. I'd like to leave the MediaFire link that's there, but I'm resolving an unfounded "bot" claim that probably won't be resolved with MediaFire until next week.
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Black VulmeaAugust 14, 2012 at 11:11 PM
Looks slick, Erik. Compliments to Scott.
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Erik TenkarAugust 15, 2012 at 6:47 PM
@New Big Dragon - let me update that :)
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New Big DragonAugust 20, 2012 at 11:20 AM
You're going to hate me. But I got my MediaFile file status restored on The System (unfounded claim), and prefer the MediaFire location (to the replacement one from the 14th). My account at MF allows me to track downloads (including how many have come from your site.) I'm sending an email with the old link (in case you've deleted it.) Sorry for any inconvenience.
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New Big DragonAugust 20, 2012 at 11:32 AM
Okay. Now I feel like an idiot. I can't find your address so here's the link: http://www.mediafire.com/?p3v3chxum1es2jt
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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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Renovations in Progress

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