Tenkar's Tavern: I Like My Random Tables - Now if I Could Just Integrate them into The Tavern's Posts

Thursday, May 1, 2014

I Like My Random Tables - Now if I Could Just Integrate them into The Tavern's Posts

I really enjoy random tables for inspiration. They are often my "go to" resource when my players zig instead of zagging, or when I need something quickly that is going to fuel my imagination. Which is why I need to work on an inspirational table for some of my blog posts.

Hmm, could even carry it over to the podcast...

All I need to do is figure out format and die size ;)

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Scott AndersonMay 1, 2014 at 1:54 PM
d12s seem to be covered. Dyson and the Dungeon Dozen do great d12 tables. How about a d14?
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AnonymousMay 1, 2014 at 1:55 PM
Gnome Stew has a series titled The Random GM, maybe that will help or make things worse. http://www.koboldpress.com/k/front-page17283.php
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KonsumterraMay 1, 2014 at 6:19 PM
d30 too small a number (sorry guys)
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Keith DaviesMay 2, 2014 at 2:08 PM
d16 and d24 are both easier to find than d14, as far as I can tell. And easier to simulate with other dice, come to that.
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UnknownMay 4, 2014 at 11:38 PM
i'd say doing a d20 list for simplicity, d100 makes you think about filling all 100 with something different and d12 or lower just makes unintersting ones
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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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Thursday, May 1, 2014

I Like My Random Tables - Now if I Could Just Integrate them into The Tavern's Posts

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