Tenkar's Tavern: Weekends No Longer are for Free Time

Sunday, September 9, 2018

Weekends No Longer are for Free Time

Before I retired, I could find time to post a half dozen times or more on the weekends.

Now that I am retired, I'm lucky to do half that. Time, it seems, has other ideas than I do. Weekends were the time to relax. Now, it seems its when "I'm working". Cleaning, shopping, family time and more. Weekdays are my downtime now.

Not complaining though. Just observing.

Will play catch up tomorrow. In the meantime, I'm enjoying Jack Ryan on Amazon. But not on weekends...

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Venger SatanisSeptember 9, 2018 at 10:38 PM
I'm in the same boat. My weekends are non-stop work. During the week, it's nice and relaxed... and I can do the real work of RPG creativity.
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Laramie WallSeptember 10, 2018 at 3:27 AM
My work varies week to week.
Currently 6th of 7 straight 12 hour days.

Is what it is. Game on.
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herucaSeptember 10, 2018 at 6:37 AM
Same for me. I actually welcome Monday mornings, now.
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Matt NSeptember 10, 2018 at 7:48 AM
Not retired yet but I remember when I first got married having to ask my wife to please NOT plan two big all day "fun things" for every damn weekend because it meant that I literally had zero free time to actually do things I wanted to do or, even better, NOT do things.
Similar vein, for a few years I had a 12 hour shift fri-sunday job. It's not as nice as you might think because the REST of the world is only free to do things while you're working.
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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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