Tenkar's Tavern: If This Brings Back Uncomfortable Memories, You Might be an Old School Gamer

Friday, January 9, 2015

If This Brings Back Uncomfortable Memories, You Might be an Old School Gamer

This cartoon was found by one of my players in the monthly "B" team after exploring some more of the Castle of the Mad Archmage earlier tonight.

Hello nurse!

My name is Erik Tenkar, and I'm an Old School Gamer...

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Raging OwlbearJanuary 10, 2015 at 1:47 AM
I'm 45 and still in love with the succubus. ;)
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Doc SavageJanuary 10, 2015 at 10:18 AM
I hope no one actually beats off to mediocre drawings of fantasy creatures.
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Timothy S. BrannanJanuary 10, 2015 at 4:46 PM
I never really wanted a tattoo, but if I were to get one it would have been that little succubus from the MM.
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John LJanuary 10, 2015 at 6:19 PM
I never found them erotic, but I did find some of them embarrassing to show to other family members who might have been interested in what my D&D hobby was like. Yes, the Succubus is the one that mostly springs to mind, but there is also the Erinyes,while the Marilith, Harpy and the Lamia were all too monstrous to be sexy but still had big bare breasts. And for extra weirdness, do you remember the female weretiger?
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BadmikeJanuary 10, 2015 at 6:28 PM
Sheesh, even in the late 70s porn was easier to get than a sunburn. Those old MM nudies were LAME.
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The Game MasterJanuary 10, 2015 at 7:19 PM
The pic was hot, but it wasn't enough to make me want to crank one out.
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Si WJanuary 10, 2015 at 8:35 PM
I liked Isis in the D&DG. Just sayin'.
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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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If This Brings Back Uncomfortable Memories, You Might be an Old School Gamer

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