Tenkar's Tavern: We Hit the "Big Time"! - The Tavern Got a Mention on the Spellburn Podcast

Friday, November 22, 2013

We Hit the "Big Time"! - The Tavern Got a Mention on the Spellburn Podcast

Wait? You don't listen to the Spellburn Podcast? Why the hell not? It's one of the better RPG / OSR podcasts out there, and they get some pretty cool guests to make appearances on the show, such as:

+Daniel Bishop

+Harley Stroh

+Michael Curtis

Even if you don't play the DCC RPG, it's a great podcast to listen to. It's consistently one of my favorite podcasts on my iPhone.

Besides, they mentioned Tenkar's Tavern in episode 14, near the end. Woot!

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UnknownNovember 22, 2013 at 6:37 PM
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Smokestack JonesNovember 22, 2013 at 11:41 PM
If you played Basic or 2E we could also mention you on Save or Die or THAC0's Hammer.

Hell, we might just do it anyway for farts and giggles. :D

-SJ
aka DM Glen
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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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Friday, November 22, 2013

We Hit the "Big Time"! - The Tavern Got a Mention on the Spellburn Podcast

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