Tenkar's Tavern: Update! Everyone That Entered The August DCC Corruption Contest is a Winner! (With Thanks to Mike at Occult Moon)

Sunday, September 2, 2012

Update! Everyone That Entered The August DCC Corruption Contest is a Winner! (With Thanks to Mike at Occult Moon)

I meant it when I said I wish I could give a prize to everyone that entered the August DCC RPG Corruption Contest - the entries were just that good.

Mike Garcia from Occult Moon agrees with me - so I need the following to reach out to Mike at thecrazygmATgmailDOTcom with the email they use at RPGNow, because Mike is going to hook you up with one of the first 16 releases in the Toys for the Sandbox Series.

Yep - everyone wins and I couldn't be happier.

Holy shit but I'm part of an awesome community of roleplayers and publishers and artists and let me just shut up...

ScrivenerB

Epic Prime

Tamas Illes

Duncan

Joshua Ward

Lord Mhor

Alan

McWieg

SAROE

KristianH

Sean Smith

(if I missed you, let me know)

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SAROESeptember 2, 2012 at 10:27 PM
Aha! Finally being a whiny, petulant brat pays off.

My childhood is redeemed.
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Erik TenkarSeptember 2, 2012 at 10:28 PM
make sure you email mike you slacker! ;)
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SAROESeptember 2, 2012 at 11:17 PM
I did. He sent the code immediately- so I got it & picked up another 4 while I was at it. So win win I hope.
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Michael GarciaSeptember 2, 2012 at 11:19 PM
Thanks @SAROE, I try to be awesome in the customer service area.
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The Spooky WhiskSeptember 3, 2012 at 12:38 AM
That is very cool.

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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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Sunday, September 2, 2012

Update! Everyone That Entered The August DCC Corruption Contest is a Winner! (With Thanks to Mike at Occult Moon)

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