Tenkar's Tavern: The Most Complete RPG / OSR Blog List I Have Ever Encountered

Thursday, December 5, 2013

The Most Complete RPG / OSR Blog List I Have Ever Encountered

+Charles Akins has just completed the most comprehensive list / review of RPG / OSR related blogs that I have ever seen. I will spend the upcoming weekend reading each and every link he has posted on his blog to see what I may have missed previously.

Charles put a lot of work into it, and it shows. Do yourself a favor, your hobby a favor, and go to Charles's blog Dyvers and check the list out.

Do it now.

Really.

I mean it.

Go!

8 comments:

Timothy S. BrannanDecember 5, 2013 at 8:06 PM
That is an impressive list.
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TadDecember 5, 2013 at 9:41 PM
Great find! Thanks for posting.
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paulgDecember 5, 2013 at 9:45 PM
I feel left out. :(
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Peter DDecember 5, 2013 at 10:26 PM
I am glad someone - by which I mean, not me - did this. It's really handy.
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DyversDecember 6, 2013 at 12:11 AM
Thanks for sharing this with everybody! I'm getting more great blogs to add to it every time I turn around. :)
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Andy BartlettDecember 6, 2013 at 6:21 AM
'Intelligently written'? Made my Friday, that did!
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John BDecember 6, 2013 at 6:14 PM
Missed me. ;)
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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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The Most Complete RPG / OSR Blog List I Have Ever Encountered

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