Tenkar's Tavern: Damn but it's Cold This Morning

Thursday, January 8, 2015

Damn but it's Cold This Morning - Gaming Thoughts Have Fled

It was 9 degrees when I started up my car this morning. It was mid 60s this past Sunday.

I had some gaming thoughts bouncing around my head as I showered, but the moment the cold hit me they failed their morale roll and fled.

Hell, my fingers are STILL cold.

Last night's chat session went really well and will only get better as we work on a regular day and time for this. I say WE, as +Vincent Florio is going to co-host this with me. We are leaning towards Wednesday nights, 830 - 1000 PM Eastern. Great time to brainstorm some topics for the Brainstorm Podcast (hint hint ;)

Damn, I think I need some tea to shed this chill.

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MarkJanuary 8, 2015 at 6:40 AM
yeah the cold here in NY is also Legit.
stay warm ..
I must have missed a post is that a G+ chat?
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Rod ThompsonJanuary 8, 2015 at 6:45 AM
Yesterday we had a high of -4 in the Twin Cities with windchill the low was -35. What was your problem?
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The Evil Dungeon MasterJanuary 8, 2015 at 7:16 AM
Cool, 20 Degrees here in Texas!
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Scott AndersonJanuary 8, 2015 at 7:30 AM
1 degree F here in picturesque Bristol County, MA!
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TheShadowKnowsJanuary 8, 2015 at 9:21 AM
Same here (Charleston WV). It was in the upper 50's last weekend and today it's 4 degrees. Just in case any foreigners or Yankees thought the South was always warm.
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The Happy WhiskJanuary 8, 2015 at 10:13 AM
I like the frozen boogers.
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Douglas ColeJanuary 8, 2015 at 12:26 PM
Yeah, we were annoyed in Minneapolis yesterday because the temp was -8F and they closed school. I mean, seriously: don't talk to me unless it's -11F or lower AND the wind chill is -40 or lower, or it's -20 or lower in any condition.

Hell, when I was at Northwestern, I walked to class from off-campus when it was -28F and -70F with wind chill.

Whippersnappers.
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Doc SavageJanuary 8, 2015 at 1:43 PM
Yeah, I think it got down to the mid-70s the other day. And at night I think the low was in the 60s.
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JDsivrajJanuary 8, 2015 at 1:44 PM
its gone up 20 degress here in southern nh since dawn, its a balmy 8 degrees F and the feral cat that lives under my barn is warming itself in the sun.
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Mike MonacoJanuary 8, 2015 at 2:23 PM
Wind chill factors well below zero here, and the drafty building I work in has me considering Taun-Tauning a colleague, so I feel your pain.
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shanepatrickwardJanuary 9, 2015 at 5:46 PM
Come on down to Manitoba. its currently -17 F. the other day it was -38. Why do I live where the air hurts my face.
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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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