Tenkar's Tavern: Amazing Mapping by Simon Forster!

Saturday, May 10, 2014

Amazing Mapping by Simon Forster!

Pure mapping awesome by +Simon Forster !

Really, someone needs to use his stuff in some published works.

Just goes to show there are always new ways to do the tried and true.

I need to do some more mapping myself, although mine is more "Amateur Hour at The Tavern" ;)

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UnknownMay 10, 2014 at 12:15 PM
NIce detail - My knowledge is limited so I don't fully know what is new about it but that's not the map's fault - it has a really nice look, too.
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John MiddletonMay 10, 2014 at 12:32 PM
Wow, that is cool!

It almost looks like some sort of dungeon or underground labyrinth.

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AnonymousMay 10, 2014 at 2:26 PM
Love it but im not sure anout the walls, kind of busy.
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LegionMay 10, 2014 at 3:49 PM
Osquip Tunnels! Yeah!
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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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Saturday, May 10, 2014

Amazing Mapping by Simon Forster!

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