Tenkar's Tavern: First Tavern Chat Livestream - Tomorrow

Thursday, December 29, 2016

First Tavern Chat Livestream - Tomorrow - 730 PM Eastern

Tomorrow night at 730 PM Eastern, give or take, +Zach Glazar and I will be kicking of the first of the semi regular Tavern Chat Livestream sessions. Oh yes, live interaction. You can ask questions. We may even supply answers. Possibly even puppets.

Now, being it will be the first, I'm sure there will be many firsts, as in screw ups. Please, be patient with us.

It will be available via a Youtube Hangout link. I'll post it tomorrow when we have the link. If you miss the live chat, you'll be able to catch it at a later time.

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Gothridge ManorDecember 29, 2016 at 11:46 PM
Cool, best of luck.
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BadmikeDecember 30, 2016 at 12:38 AM
Heckling to commence in 3...2...1...
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Zudrak (Michael G.)December 30, 2016 at 1:41 AM
All the best to your new venture, Erik, Zach, & company! I hope to join in but I'll be at my family's Pollyanna Party tomorrow evening, so I'll most likely have to catch the rerun.
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rredmondDecember 30, 2016 at 6:14 PM
So is this a "Live" thing on Facebook? If I can catch it live to Kender taunt... er, I mean cheer on, then I wanted to figure out how to do that. :)
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rredmondDecember 30, 2016 at 6:16 PM
Oooooooh, YouTube Hangout. I'm thinking that's a thing. Ok, I got time to figure that out to support a fellow New Yorker (though I haven't lived in NY for over a decade ;)
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TenkarDecember 30, 2016 at 6:17 PM
yeah, youtube initially - will probably move to FB once FB allows multiple hosts
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rredmondDecember 30, 2016 at 6:28 PM
Didn't know YouTube did the Hangout thing. This social worker learns something new every day!
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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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First Tavern Chat Livestream - Tomorrow - 730 PM Eastern

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