Tenkar's Tavern: Reminder - Tavern Chat Tonight - 9 PM Eastern - Ah, Dear Kenny

Wednesday, April 11, 2018

Reminder - Tavern Chat Tonight - 9 PM Eastern - Ah, Dear Kenny - How Sweet That You've Been Served

Today is a Wednesday. Tonight is a Wednesday Night. Today is the day @ConManKen was served. Ah, what a night it will be ;)

Seriously, Wednesday Nights at 9 PM Eastern is when The Tavern's Community gathers in The Tavern's Discord Server and talks gaming - news, thoughts, rules, geek stuff - whatever comes to mind. Somehow, I expect @ConManKen will be a strong topic tonight.

Tavern Chat is mostly a voice chat hangout. You can hangout out in the Open Bar Voice Channel and lurk if you don't feel like talking. The additional chat takes place in the Tavern Chat Text Channel, but most of the activity is certainly on the vice side.

Voice chat is set for "push to talk" with very few exceptions.

Join us. You literally never know who will be popping in.

Invite below:

https://discord.gg/fReGmuD

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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, April 11, 2018

Reminder - Tavern Chat Tonight - 9 PM Eastern - Ah, Dear Kenny - How Sweet That You've Been Served

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