Tenkar's Tavern: Is There a Current List of all the OSR Zines?

Tuesday, June 11, 2013

Is There a Current List of all the OSR Zines?

I ask, because I'd like to list them and their associated websites when I get Unofficial OSR out at the end of the summer.

Our corner of the hobby is small but tight, and additional exposure does the OSR as a whole a good thing.

I may also include a listing of all of the OSR games, but I think I'm more likely to finish that list on my own than the zine list. Zines are more like to fall through the cracks and can be harder to track down.

Print, PDF or both. I know of a bunch that are defunct these days, but I'd like to support the ones I haven't found yet ;)

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UnknownJune 11, 2013 at 10:07 PM
These you are already probably aware of but just in case.....

AFS Zine #3 almost out. #1 and #2 were killer
http://hallsoftizunthane.blogspot.com

Wizards Mutants Laser Pistols
http://wizardsmutantslaserpistols.blogspot.com/

The Dungeon Crawl
http://initiativeone.blogspot.com/p/dungeon-crawl-zine.html

Delve!Zine
http://xyanthon.blogspot.com/

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Jason ZavodaJune 11, 2013 at 10:25 PM
The Manor
http://gothridgemanor.blogspot.com/
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John YJune 11, 2013 at 10:59 PM
Rended Press maintains a list of OSR zines: http://rendedpress.blogspot.com/p/old-school-zines.html
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Reverend DakJune 12, 2013 at 5:08 PM
Yep, this: http://rendedpress.blogspot.com/p/old-school-zines.html
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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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Is There a Current List of all the OSR Zines?

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