Tenkar's Tavern: The Tavern Chat Podcast - Episode 89 - Mrs. E. Gary Gygax or Gail Gygax

Monday, August 13, 2018

The Tavern Chat Podcast - Episode 89 - Mrs. E. Gary Gygax or Gail Gygax - Flip a Coin

Oh my. Gail seems to be on fire. Really. Like burning bridges and such. Wow.

Will the real Slim Shady please stand up! Wait! I mean the real Gail Gygax. Or Mrs E Gary Gygax. Last night (and overnight) Gail was taking the flames to Facebook. I guess this is what a $30 million lawsuit does to the person on the receiving end...

Link to Episode 89 - https://anchor.fm/tavernchat/episodes/Episode-89---Mrs--E--Gary-Gygax-or-Gail-Gygax---Flip-a-Coin-e20q8p

Link to Gail Gygax - Says DeSanto Suing for $30M, Says Home Was Trapped to Kill Her, Property Missing, Calling FBI

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Jon SAugust 13, 2018 at 11:28 AM
Erik, weird things are happening to The Tavern! The website doesn't adapt to mobile devices any more! Both my phones and my ipod show the Tavern as desktop only sized and it isn't scalable.
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IkarosAugust 13, 2018 at 1:46 PM
On Eworld, the article stated the following: "(...)This isn't the first time, there having been major family disputes between her and Gygax's children over recent years, but this is the first time by a Hollywood movie producer!"

Are they implying that Gygax's children sued her? For what I know (at least the Gygax Magazine affair) is the other way arround.
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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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Monday, August 13, 2018

The Tavern Chat Podcast - Episode 89 - Mrs. E. Gary Gygax or Gail Gygax - Flip a Coin

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