Tenkar's Tavern: My Chainmail Dicebag - From the Tavern Cards Kickstarter

Saturday, December 7, 2013

My Chainmail Dicebag - From the Tavern Cards Kickstarter

While I'm still waiting on my Tavern Cards, I received my add on chainmail dice bag today. At the moment it is holding 2 sets of the S&W dice from the S&W Complete Kickstarter, some dice with Orcus instead of the ones and a set of red dice from the LorFP Referee book Indiegogo - or some other LotFP project.

It needs more dice and could easily hold twice the amount of not more.

I love it. My wife loves it too and she's not even a gamer. She wants one with a heavier draw string so she could use it as a small purse. I'll need to keep this away from her.

Now to wait for the cards...

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StuRatDecember 7, 2013 at 4:17 PM
She could use hers as a weapon when out and about.
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AndrewDecember 7, 2013 at 4:28 PM
Looks like it doubles as an object for self-defense.
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Gothridge ManorDecember 7, 2013 at 4:45 PM
Yeah, no need to arm her. I'm sure anything you say may and will be used against you.
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The DaveDecember 7, 2013 at 6:08 PM
You know when you roll up to the table with that bad boy.. you mean business..
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AnonymousDecember 9, 2013 at 3:33 PM
That's not a dice bag dude. It's vintage used testicle armor.
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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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My Chainmail Dicebag - From the Tavern Cards Kickstarter

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