Tenkar's Tavern: In Four More Posts The Tavern Hit's It's 3,000 Post

Monday, April 29, 2013

In Four More Posts The Tavern Hit's It's 3,000 Post - How Shall We Celebrate?

We are sneaking up on the Big 3k Post. It's a bit sooner than I expected, but I'm not complaining ;)

What shall we do to celebrate?

I literally have no ideas. I should, but I don't. It's a cool mark to hit, but I'm actually more excited to be hitting the 4 year mark of blogging on May 31st (ignore the lone post from 2008).

Maybe I should make May a special month...

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Gothridge ManorApril 29, 2013 at 8:33 PM
I hit my 4th year this month and forgot all about it. What to do for 3000...no clue.
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UnknownApril 29, 2013 at 9:34 PM
Post a picture of 100 Spartans? ;0)
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Blakdout36April 29, 2013 at 9:36 PM
All wines half-price and free ale until the witching hour. Drinking contest starts then. All contestants must ante up 2 gp. Winner gets three fourths the pot and has a song written about him or her by Tenkar's resident Bard!
:)
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Darcy PerryApril 30, 2013 at 6:01 AM
May is "New Zealand Music Month". I'm a bard...
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AndrewApril 30, 2013 at 9:32 AM
Maybe you've upgraded to 3,000 coppers. =)
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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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Monday, April 29, 2013

In Four More Posts The Tavern Hit's It's 3,000 Post - How Shall We Celebrate?

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