Tenkar's Tavern: The Muse Rises Again!

Sunday, April 8, 2018

The Muse Rises Again!

I have refound my muse. If you don't know, unless you are James Spahn, your internal muse can be a very fickle beast. Well, my muse has been extremely fickle the past few months if you haven't noticed. Maybe I have more than one muse, as blog posts have kept pace, but gaming content posts have been struggling.

Earlier today I posted the Pyro-Hydra. I've got many more monsters to stat out. Magic items to describe. Dungeons to stock.

It feels good to push past the muddied darkness to find my voice.

Did I mention that Torchlight, the S&W Zine is looking to release in time for GameHole? We got plans in the works ;)

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Brett SlocumApril 8, 2018 at 11:29 PM
Congratulations! I had a similar thing for most of the winter, but something, maybe the returning light, kicked my butt a couple weeks ago on some stalled projects. Now I have one small project nearly ready for layout, and one 3/4 done.
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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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The Muse Rises Again!

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