Tenkar's Tavern: Tavern Chat - Tonight - 9 PM Eastern - With Worse Moderation that a Presidential Debate ;)

Wednesday, September 28, 2016

Tavern Chat - Tonight - 9 PM Eastern - With Worse Moderation that a Presidential Debate ;)

Tavern Chat is a free for all and that's just how we like it.

Heck, tonight we may even have a live review / discussion of an OSR release.

I'm sure Ken Whitman will be part of tonight's discussion. ENworld. Kickstarter. Sweden. Oh yes, the potential topics are endless :)

Join us, tonight at 9 PM Eastern right here at The Tavern for the weekly Tavern Chat. There's no telling who may show up.

Full Disclosure: I have no idea who the fuck will show up. Space is not limited. BYOB. No operators are standing by. We do not offer trigger warnings nor refunds. The chat box is the chat box on the right side of this page. Sign in with the social media account of your choice. Cthulhu for President!

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Rob GustafsonSeptember 28, 2016 at 4:45 PM
Let's not discuss frickin' Ken Whitman. We're better people than that, and the piece of crud doesn't deserve to be more than a footnote in the "What Not To Do..." Book.
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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 (thank you Kickstarter) (edit) BOTH editions of LotFP's Weird Fantasy and will soon have some dead tree copies of the Greyhawk Grognards Adventures Dark & Deep ~~shipping shortly~~ in my grubby hands awaiting a review..

I am so deep in the OSR when I come up for breath it's for the OSR's cousin, Tunnels & Trolls (and still waiting on dT&T to ship).

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 48, simplicity and flexibility while remaining true to the feel of the original is an OSR hat trick for me ;)

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Wednesday, September 28, 2016

Tavern Chat - Tonight - 9 PM Eastern - With Worse Moderation that a Presidential Debate ;)

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