Tenkar's Tavern: Let it Snow, Let it Snow, Let it...no?

Friday, January 7, 2011

Let it Snow, Let it Snow, Let it...no?

The Christmas weekend snow storm was a prime example of city government dropping the ball. Today's little dusting is a prime example of doing too much now to cover you past mistakes - i think a salter went by my window at work at least 3 times so far.

My staff is going a little snow crazy tho - nonstop laughing, god bless them.

Time to stream a movie or two tonight - which means hitting the list you fine folks created ;)

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HiggipediaJanuary 7, 2011 at 2:55 PM
Mrs. Higgipedia and I have been slogging through Doctor Who and Torchwood lately. Oddly enough, out here in the Poconos, they seemed to have dropped the ball with plowing. No idea about the salting, though. The Mrs. told me she fishtailed twice on her way to work, so I'm not leaving unless I have to. I'm confident in my abilities, as well as those of my truck, but the rest of the idiots on the road... yeah...
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The Happy WhiskJanuary 7, 2011 at 3:36 PM
Hope you have a nice weekend, filled with great movies and fun.
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HaraldJanuary 7, 2011 at 3:53 PM
Over at this side of the pond, salt is rapidly becoming the hottest commodity - we're (and by we, I mean Europe) is running out of the stuff. Today they were talking about abandoning the bare-roads strategy, and adopting the good old winter-road strategy instead. Woe onto us, as I fear Norwegians have forgotten how to drive on snow.

Oh, well, I live in the city centre, so I walk everywhere, and I have good shoes.

Enjoy your movies.
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The Happy WhiskJanuary 7, 2011 at 7:58 PM
Good shoes. Very important. Hi Harald.
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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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