Tenkar's Tavern: OSRGAMING.ORG Domain Actively Being Shopped

Saturday, August 23, 2014

OSRGAMING.ORG Domain Actively Being Shopped

+Vincent Florio has told me that OSRGAMING.ORG, a domain that he holds and which hosts the forums of many RPG podcasts, is actively taking offers. Vince refused to state why the domain is being shopped, but he did say he had received at least one credible offer thus far.

Not a bad domain to own if you desired to be a hub in the community.

Shit - maybe we could crowdsource the funds to make a viable offer.

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John MiddletonAugust 23, 2014 at 3:28 PM
Or your could just start osrgaming.something else
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Sean McSomethingAugust 23, 2014 at 5:16 PM
What's interesting isn't so much that he's considering selling but that somebody's interested in buying. Will it be related content or a completely new meaning of "OSR"?
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John MiddletonAugust 23, 2014 at 8:15 PM
osrgaming.com is registered but no content

may just be trying to make some cash with domain names

I think it is a dull name for a website
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ClawCarverAugust 24, 2014 at 5:20 PM
Interesting anagram.
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Call me BearAugust 26, 2014 at 6:00 PM
I'd buy it just to keep to forums there going, if nothing else. I'd be afraid of the new owner taking everything down and starting a bid to be the new voice of the OSR.
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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, August 23, 2014

OSRGAMING.ORG Domain Actively Being Shopped

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