Tenkar's Tavern: #ConManKen - Too Good For Me NOT to Share!

Sunday, September 3, 2017

#ConManKen - Too Good For Me NOT to Share!

This was sent to me by a friend. Simply too damn good not to share.

Kenny! Where's my Pencil Dice!?!

I want this on a shirt!

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Dr. ObscureSeptember 3, 2017 at 9:21 PM
Aw, don't drag Scrooge MacDuck into K's mess. Unlike Kenny, he made his money "square."
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freebfrostSeptember 3, 2017 at 9:34 PM
I agree, Scrooge is the real deal.

Now, a Flintheart Glomgold shirt...
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jollyblackburnSeptember 3, 2017 at 9:52 PM
bwahaaa
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Smokestack JonesSeptember 3, 2017 at 9:55 PM
To quote the new Ducktales:

GLOMGOLD: Take an idea. Put your name on it...
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Uncle SamSeptember 3, 2017 at 10:19 PM
OK you all are killing me. I just had to wikipedia Glomgold. Because I didn't remember that character at all. (Shakes fist at interwebs) :-)
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JeffSeptember 3, 2017 at 11:04 PM
Reading that upside down, I didn't take the middle word as "dice", at first glance. And, you may take that as you will.
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UnknownSeptember 4, 2017 at 7:14 AM
Jeff, appropriate misread by you should have added "golf" before pencil. :-)
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DraconianSeptember 7, 2017 at 3:56 PM
Are there any dollar-coins in the United States??
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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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Sunday, September 3, 2017

#ConManKen - Too Good For Me NOT to Share!

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