Tenkar's Tavern: OSR Christmas Starts in a Week

Thursday, December 7, 2017

OSR Christmas Starts in a Week - Mark your Calendars ;)

Next Thursday we kick off OSR Christmas. I'll work on the actual gift giving breakdown for the 12 days this weekend, but in the mix thus far are:

Frog God Games: (1) Copy of The Bight - for Swords & Wizardry - Hardcover / Print
(2) $20 Gift Certificates to the Frog God Store
(4) $10 Gift Certificates to the Frog God Store

Silver Bulette (2) Copies Orb of Undying Discord (PDF)
(2) Copies of their next release (PDF)

Gaming Ballistic (2) Copies Dungeon Grappling in Print - (6) Copies of DG in PDF
(2) Copies Lost Hall of Tyr in Print - (6) Copies of LHoT in PDF

Precis Intermedia(1) Choice of one issue of RPG Pundit Presents in PDF
(Brett Bernstein) (1) Supergame: Super-Powered RPG (Classic Reprint) in PDF

Crossplanes (6) Copies Wizardry Unearthed in PDF

The Tavern (6) Copies Swords & Wizardry Continual Light in Print

The Tavern
Monkeyblood Design (1) Copy Midderlands in Print

More to come...

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Daniel D. FoxDecember 8, 2017 at 1:31 AM
Need something else to add into the mix? I'm game. Hit me up at daniel@grimandperilous.com
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Chance PhillipsDecember 8, 2017 at 7:48 AM
I could offer a couple PDFs of my upcoming setting: On the Shoulders of Giants, but I'm still waiting on art and it won't be done until after the 12 Days.
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Reid San FilippoDecember 8, 2017 at 9:26 AM
Erik, throw 2 copies of the Umerican Survival Guide PDF into the mix!
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Douglas ColeDecember 8, 2017 at 2:10 PM
I will be giving away a PDF of either Dungeon Grappling or Lost Hall of Tyr each day. Every third day, I'll contribute a print copy of either one (so four books). Has to be in the USA for the print books, though, due to the nightmare cost of shipping.
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James M. SpahnDecember 13, 2017 at 5:12 PM
You've already got my addition.
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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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