Tenkar's Tavern: New Year - Same Flu (But Moving in the Right Direction)

Thursday, January 1, 2026

New Year - Same Flu (But Moving in the Right Direction)

If anyone saw part of either livestream I did on New Year's Eve, you likely saw I was far from 100%. I actually napped for 90 minutes between the two streams, and it wasn't JUST because I'm getting old.

In any case, the brain fog/cloud that has accompanied this challenge is still lingering but improving. I'm hoping to resume OSR Christmas - with gift giving and a new set of gifts to ask OSR Santa for tomorrow, Friday, Jan 2. It MAY slip to Jan 3 if my dopiness hasn't improved.

I missed a few days of video at the height of this infection, and the few I've done this week have relied on Adobe Podcast to clean up my audio to something presentable. Well worth the 60 bucks or so I pay yearly for the feature. Simple observation, no affiliate anything ;)

Alright - no livestream tonight, no Discord hangout tonight, just rest, liquid, and sleep...

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inhalvastJanuary 1, 2026 at 10:05 PM
Here's hoping you're all mended by the weekend!
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Tim BakerJanuary 1, 2026 at 10:13 PM
I hope you feel better soon!
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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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Thursday, January 1, 2026

New Year - Same Flu (But Moving in the Right Direction)

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