Tenkar's Tavern: Recipients of the 2nd Day and 3rd Day Flash OSR Christmas Giveaways Are...

Sunday, December 15, 2013

Recipients of the 2nd Day and 3rd Day Flash OSR Christmas Giveaways Are...

Time to give away some gifts :)

The 2nd Day of OSR Christmas gift recipient (a bundle of Small Niche Games products in PDF) is:

BlUsKrEEm

The 3rd Day of OSR Christmas - Flash Bonus - gift recipients of That's a Goblin!? in PDF are:

Frothsof

Steve Moss

Mike Gibb

JDJarvis

Steve Balog

The Day 1 recipient was:

DungeonMastahWieg

The lucky folks need to reach out to me so we can get them their goodies - email tenkarsDOTtavernATgmailDOTcom so we can put things in motion for ya ;)

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Tony T.December 15, 2013 at 9:20 AM
congrats to winners!
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BlUsKrEEmDecember 15, 2013 at 1:19 PM
Whoo! Thank you!
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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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