Tenkar's Tavern: Tenkar's Tavern is Strangely Popular in Germany These Days

Tuesday, July 2, 2013

Tenkar's Tavern is Strangely Popular in Germany These Days

No idea why. It's been like that the last few days.

Was it something I said? Damn shame my German isn't better ;)

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AnonymousJuly 2, 2013 at 5:20 PM
No, that's not all me... even though I spend too much time in front of the computer... ;)
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PadreJuly 2, 2013 at 8:50 PM
It's the NSA operative checking your blog from there. Right now they are working to decode OSR for its real meaning. ;-)
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New Big DragonJuly 2, 2013 at 9:16 PM
I had the same thing happen to me, but it was pretty easy to determine mine was due to referrer spam.
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AnonymousJuly 2, 2013 at 11:13 PM
It's because you are a Nihlist
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Nicolas "Ungoliant" SenacJuly 3, 2013 at 8:43 AM
Well, only 28 pages for France? I must be the only French who read this blog !
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PiperJuly 4, 2013 at 12:55 AM
Das stimmt!
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UnknownJuly 4, 2013 at 4:40 AM
I made some posts for the first time here in those both days – but nor 4000 views ;)
Which articles were watched?
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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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Tuesday, July 2, 2013

Tenkar's Tavern is Strangely Popular in Germany These Days

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