Tenkar's Tavern: Brewing Apprentice 101

Tuesday, January 12, 2010

Brewing Apprentice 101

So, over the weekend I bottled my beer. The Red Ale will need to be filtered as it appears some hops and dead yeast made it to the bottles. No biggie, its all good ;) The Oktoberfest looks nice and clear. Both seem to be carbing well, as the plastic bottles are firming up nicely. It will all be ready in plenty of time for the Super Bowl... heh

A side note to yesterday's review. The PDF is not very Kindle DX friendly. The DX seems to have issues with PDFs that have multiple layers on the page... it tries to view each layer as a separate page. I could go into the PDF with some editing software and take out the offending layers, but it looks damn fine using Adobe Reader. Sumatra has some minor issues, but I've been finding the Sumatra has issues with just about all but the most basically laid out PDFs. Minor quibble, and it probably only effects me :)

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ChristianJanuary 12, 2010 at 9:32 PM
Finally. The old comments form on your previous layout was busted and I could never comment. Love the blog!
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TenkarJanuary 12, 2010 at 9:34 PM
Go figure... heh

If I hadn't inadvertently lost the previous template, this never would have happened ;)

All things considered, I do prefer this to the old. Working comments form is a major plus tho'
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White HairedJanuary 12, 2010 at 10:54 PM
Hey there Erik I love the new layout. It is interesting that you are seeing the layout in layers. One of my steps is to flatten the pdf, thus stripping out the layers. Could you give me an idea of how many layers you are seeing and what you see on them when you get a chance?
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The Rusty Battle AxeJanuary 13, 2010 at 1:37 PM
Yes, nice blog layout.

Any chance of a chilled pipeline to Central PA for your Red Ale? Yum.
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TenkarJanuary 13, 2010 at 5:23 PM
Rusty: I get to N/E PA on a regular basis (Lake Wallenpaupak Area). I go about as far west as Scranton. So you have a trip ahead of you if you want some of the Red stuff ;)

White Haired: After dinner I'll break out the DX and give a better explanation of it. As I said, it's perfect in Adobe... everything else is just gravy
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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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