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Sunday, February 14, 2010

D&D Experience - Video Documentary

I wish I could find the blog that posted this link to the Dungeons & Dragons Experience. It's a decent documentary on D&D, its players and a bit of the history of the game. It includes interviews gamers, writers and with members of the gaming industry, including EGG.

There where more then a handful of cringe inducing moments, quite possibly because I could relate to them. The last part in the series has a nice EGG interview after the credits. Altogether the 7 parts add up to about 70 minutes of viewing.

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ChristianFebruary 14, 2010 at 11:56 PM
I clicked the link, saw a dingy basement, heard a goofy accent, saw candles and, well, why the hell does every gaming documentary have to start like that?!

I'll try again later. ;)
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TenkarFebruary 15, 2010 at 10:19 AM
the goofy english accent is annoying.... all the interviews are here in the states. The basement isnt THAT dingy... my basement was dingy with a cat that would constantly poop under the gaming table ;)

it wasnt a bad doc tho... just need to get thru the first part :)
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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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