Tenkar's Tavern: If You Had Stuck Around to the End of Last Night's Tavern Chat...

Friday, December 18, 2015

If You Had Stuck Around to the End of Last Night's Tavern Chat...

You might have caught the conversation talking about a possible podcast in last night's Tavern Chat. It was out there for all to see.

+Michael Badolato (Bad Mike)

+Zach Glazar (the Lesser Gnome)

+Erik Tenkar (myself)

Off the cuff, no scripts, no mailbags, immature (adult language) and sure to offend most people. Old school gaming as raw as it can be.

Is it a done deal? Of course not. Are we excited? Hell yeah.

Enter to win a Death & Taxes Boxed Set and tell +Zach Glazar you want to hear him on a podcast. Cause you know you do :)

8 comments:

Andrew C. DurstonDecember 18, 2015 at 7:57 PM
Comments closed on the contest ... durn it. Was going to say something spiffy about getting papercuts from fingering all the boxed set goodness ...
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BadmikeDecember 18, 2015 at 7:57 PM
Full disclosure, I was drinking diet coke and whiskey all last night. You say I was on the chat?
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UnknownDecember 18, 2015 at 8:26 PM
This where we enter?
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UnknownDecember 18, 2015 at 8:26 PM
This where we enter?
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UnknownDecember 18, 2015 at 8:27 PM
This where we enter? Cause I like Zach podcast idea
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BadmikeDecember 18, 2015 at 8:31 PM
Why does Zach get credit for the idea? Just because he doesn't drink? Sure, put the sober guy in charge...
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UnknownDecember 19, 2015 at 12:00 PM
Wait. Que? Yall are doing a podcast?? Did I read that right?
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JoshDecember 19, 2015 at 9:12 PM
Yet another podcast?
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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 You Had Stuck Around to the End of Last Night's Tavern Chat...

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