Tenkar's Tavern: Reminder - Tavern Chat Tonight - 9 PM Eastern

Wednesday, December 27, 2017

Reminder - Tavern Chat Tonight - 9 PM Eastern - No Rest for the Wicked

It's been a busy month at The Tenkar Household and needless to say the holidays haven't slowed anything down. Accomplished absolutely nothing with my niece spending the night and day and night... at least she's having a blast :)

Anyhow, tonight is Tavern Chat! Huzzah!

What is Tavern Chat? I've been told it is quite like an unscripted gaming podcast recorded live - except that we don't record and if you miss it you have literally missed it. We don't have scheduled guests but we do have some regulars (and irregulars) that take part in the chat.

All you need are headphones (or speakers) to log in and listen. I mic helps if you want to join the voice chat.

We also use a text chat channel for additional conversations, links, pics, videos and the like.

Here's the link to The Tenkar's Tavern Live Discord Server:

https://discord.gg/fReGmuD

"Open Bar" is where the voice happens:

tavern-chat-wed-9pm is where the text takes place for the night:

The common-room is where the daily text chat takes place.

Tavern Chat is Tonight from 9PM Eastern until "whenever".

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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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Wednesday, December 27, 2017

Reminder - Tavern Chat Tonight - 9 PM Eastern - No Rest for the Wicked

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