Tenkar's Tavern: If I Decide to run "Other Dust", this Picture may be the Deciding Factor

Thursday, May 29, 2014

If I Decide to run "Other Dust", this Picture may be the Deciding Factor

This picture makes me want run Other Dust.

Why?

Because the scene fits my group to a "T"!

(besides, they'd really like the chick with the praying mantis appendage)

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Sine NomineMay 29, 2014 at 10:45 PM
Ear Geier does good work, particularly on all things creepy.
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Doctor FuturityMay 29, 2014 at 11:16 PM
Too much underboob in the middle of a fight breaks my sense of realism/verisimilitude....but hell, Under Dust is a great game so I guess underboob is one of her mutant powers or something.
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Vance AMay 30, 2014 at 12:31 AM
I dunno - Gamma World had some decently insane art too - and - Holy Buckets! - Erol Otis too! http://www.coldmonkeymountain.com/osrpg/gw_otus/otus5_opt.jpg
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John MiddletonMay 30, 2014 at 3:55 AM
Eric is focused on the mutant thing ass shots, not the underboob.
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Doctor FuturityMay 31, 2014 at 3:08 PM
For some really outrageous art look no further than Will Mcausland's Mutant Epoch whuch is the greatest non-clone retro post-apoc romp out there.
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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 29, 2014

If I Decide to run "Other Dust", this Picture may be the Deciding Factor

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