Tenkar's Tavern: Death Notice - Lucas Puryear / Sketchbook LP in the Tenkar's Tavern Discord, Has Passed.

Saturday, October 19, 2019

Death Notice - Lucas Puryear / Sketchbook LP in the Tenkar's Tavern Discord, Has Passed.

Lucas Puryear / Sketchbook LP has passed. Lucas was an active member of the Tenkar's Tavern Discord Server and will be missed.

Lucas's family is attempting to raise some funds via GoFundMe to help with funeral and related expenses.

I'd like to express our sympathies to Lucas's family and friends on behalf of the Tenkar's Tavern Community. We will all be lessened by his absence.

Memorial details are below:

Please join us in remembering Lucas Puryear.

We will be having a short memorial at 2, followed by eating. There will be pizza there, but feel free to bring anything else.

We welcome anyone who would like to share memories.

Please dress casually. Clothes relating to comic books, animals, or dinosaurs are highly encouraged.

Please come celebrate Lucas' life.

If you plan to send flowers, please send them to Becky Puryear at 2706 61st street Lubbock, Tx 79413

Wish I could be there - Tenkar

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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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Saturday, October 19, 2019

Death Notice - Lucas Puryear / Sketchbook LP in the Tenkar's Tavern Discord, Has Passed.

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