Tenkar's Tavern: After The Storm

Monday, December 27, 2010

After The Storm

Anyone have an Ice to Water spell handy?

I had to walk thru this crap. No attempts were made to plow.

I know I'm not the one shoveling this car out!

- Posted from my iPhone

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ChristianDecember 27, 2010 at 1:39 PM
It's 80 degrees in Hawaii this week. I think you should move there and fight crime.

A not so helpful hint from destination unknown!
;)
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Greg ChristopherDecember 27, 2010 at 2:35 PM
They don't call it Hotlanta for nothing. We got a dusting.
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JDJarvisDecember 27, 2010 at 4:58 PM
between 2 inches and 2 and a half feet on my property because of all the wind.

@christian, my brother lives in Hawaii, he loves it accept for the hills, quakes, tsunamis, lava and his least favorite the vog.
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ChristianDecember 27, 2010 at 5:38 PM
Yes, but the surf. Dear God the surf. I suffer through the miserable bullshit waves here in L.A. and dream of the aquatic bounty of the islands every day. :)
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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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After The Storm

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