Tenkar's Tavern: Looking for a List of OSR Discord Servers

Thursday, December 28, 2017

Looking for a List of OSR Discord Servers

The RPG Pundit asked over at The Tenkar's Tavern Discord Server if one could search for servers by type or topic on Discord and I haven't found an effective way to do so.

Aside from the Tenkar's Tavern Discord Server and the Frog God Discord Server, I don't really know of any other Discord Servers for old school gaming or even tabletop RPGs in general.

If you know of any, please add them to the comments below. If you have an invite link to the server / servers in question, please include them too.

I'll make sure the collected info is forwarded to Old School Gaming Radio.

Invite link to the Tenkar's Tavern Discord Server:

https://discord.gg/fReGmuD

Invite link to the Frog God Games Discord Server:

https://discord.gg/ecjnPaH

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CarlDecember 28, 2017 at 10:57 PM
The Wild Game Productions discord is

https://discord.gg/63JKBA
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Tim BakerDecember 29, 2017 at 10:48 AM
There's an active #osr channel on the "RPG Talk" Discord server.

https://discord.gg/BPmJSRe
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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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Thursday, December 28, 2017

Looking for a List of OSR Discord Servers

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