Tenkar's Tavern: The "B-Team" is About to Explore the Castle of the Mad Archmage

Thursday, March 27, 2014

The "B-Team" is About to Explore the Castle of the Mad Archmage

Look what the mail man left me yesterday (among other things which I may post about later).

Tomorrow night the B-Team will delve into the Castle of the Mad Archmage. Session reports and review will be forthcoming.

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Gothridge ManorMarch 27, 2014 at 7:44 AM
Looking forward to it.
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Douglas ColeMarch 27, 2014 at 12:43 PM
Overlord's GOING DOWN. My first (second?) level fighter will waste him.
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Anders KirsteinMarch 27, 2014 at 3:53 PM
Looking MUCH forward to it, also a review please :D
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TreeboreMarch 27, 2014 at 4:13 PM
So Black Blade never got this done?
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BillyMarch 28, 2014 at 2:38 AM
Back in college when I lived in the co-op, the "B-Team" was the nickname applied to the two unfortunate guys who had bathroom cleaning duty that fateful week when a big turd was found right in the middle of the floor. After many accusations, recriminations, and a good deal of bitching, the "B-Team" relentlessly went into action and cleaned that shit up.

We never did find out who it was that missed the toilet that day with such dire results. But, much like the Phoenix, from that conflagration a legend was born!
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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 "B-Team" is About to Explore the Castle of the Mad Archmage

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