Tenkar's Tavern: NTRPG Con - Basix Bells Shattered the Norns

Friday, June 2, 2017

NTRPG Con - Basix Bells Shattered the Norns

A few of today's con acquisitions:

I run my next game in 30 minutes. A second group shall soon explore Beneath the Battered Dwarf Tavern!

BTW, I'm doing something very Frog God-ish. I'm allowing my players to bring their characters to other cons that I run Swords & Wizardry Light at. Yes, survivors could potentially level up :)

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NarmerJune 2, 2017 at 4:46 PM
_Shattered Norns_ looks sweet! Almost makes me wish I played 5e.
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Wild Boar GamesJune 2, 2017 at 5:21 PM
...but tell us more about Back to BasiX... :D
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ForgottenDMJune 2, 2017 at 5:28 PM
Did you get a discount on those books someone wrote in. lol. Throw back joke from Gen Con XII.
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Tony T.June 3, 2017 at 8:24 AM
Where can one order a cop of the Back to Basix?
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GwythaintJune 3, 2017 at 9:07 AM
Back to BasiX looks like it has cover art by Matthew Ray
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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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Friday, June 2, 2017

NTRPG Con - Basix Bells Shattered the Norns

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