Tenkar's Tavern: We Raised $142 a Month of Funding for the Tavern in 12 Hrs

Wednesday, February 18, 2015

We Raised $142 a Month of Funding for the Tavern in 12 Hrs - Thank You!

I've always said that the community here at The Tavern is amazing and generous, but you all have blown me away today. I am humbled and forever grateful.

We currently have $142 in monthly pledges for The Tavern and have hit the first 2 of The Tavern's Patreon Milestones.

5% of the pledge monies received will be Kicked Forward to other RPG related Patreon projects. Additionally, we'll be having some new creatures for use with Swords & Wizardry, Tunnels & Trolls and Far Away Land. Yep, each creature will be triple stated.

Heck, we are nearly to the halfway point of getting me to organize an Informal Online Old School Gaming Con.

In the next day or so I'll be giving a proper shout out to all of the Patreon backers.

Again, thank you. If ever I felt like a humble servant, it is now ;)

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Erik TalvolaFebruary 19, 2015 at 12:16 AM
Just signed up for you and WGP. Least I can do after reading and listening to you for the last year...
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HuckSawyerFebruary 19, 2015 at 12:35 PM
This might push Tenkar's Landing a bit more into the spotlight . . . old bones and new evil and all that . . .
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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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Wednesday, February 18, 2015

We Raised $142 a Month of Funding for the Tavern in 12 Hrs - Thank You!

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