Tenkar's Tavern: North Texas RPG Con 2015 Early Registration Ends Tomorrow

Wednesday, July 30, 2014

North Texas RPG Con 2015 Early Registration Ends Tomorrow - July 31st

Early registration for NTRPG Con 2015 ends tomorrow, so your chance to save 10 bucks on the four days of the convention is running out after tomorrow. For me it's a savings of 20 bucks, as it's me and my wife.

I'm going to be there next June and so should you.

I will be organizing a Tenkar's Tavern / Tavern Radio gathering at the hotel bar at the next NTRPG Con, probably on Thursday Night. I'll buy the first round for up to 2 dozen blog readers / podcast listeners. It's the least I can do - and I'll make sure and shave this time too ;)

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BadmikeJuly 30, 2014 at 10:04 AM
You're buying booze for this crowd? Damn man....

This year we have the ENTIRE hotel, including the atrium, so no loads of corporate types milling around and singing drunken karaoke on Wed night for those who get there early for the "Pre-Con Get It On". And as always we'll have commandered the best spots in the bar during all open hours...
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R.J. ThompsonJuly 30, 2014 at 10:17 AM
You should be at U-Con in November for the OSR track as well.
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Doug KovacsJuly 30, 2014 at 10:31 AM
Thanks for reminding me I need to sign up for a table again.
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AnonymousJuly 30, 2014 at 11:35 AM
I demand you not listen to your inner civilized self and sport the facial hair. Makes you look more authentic :) I will, of course, be there...which should save you a couple bucks as I do not drink :)
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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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North Texas RPG Con 2015 Early Registration Ends Tomorrow - July 31st

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