Tenkar's Tavern: Looking For Some Reader Input

Tuesday, April 12, 2011

Looking For Some Reader Input

For the soon to start series of posts about Dragon Magazine (and The Strategic Review) I'm trying to decide on a post title. So far I'm considering:

The Dragon Flagon

Delving With the Dragon

Picking Apart The Dragon's Carcass

If anyone would like to add their own ideas to the mix, or would like to cast their vote for one of the above, drop a note in the comments below.

Thanks

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mikemonacoApril 12, 2011 at 8:46 AM
The Dragon's Lair (or Layer or Layers)

The Dragon's Treasures

Dragon Eggs

Dragon Out the Posts

Dragon My Readers Through the Dragon Archive

:)
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TenkarApril 12, 2011 at 8:48 AM
Dragon Out the Posts got a nice chuckle outa me ;)
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Bigby's Left HandApril 12, 2011 at 8:58 AM
I'd recommend "Flogging the Dragon" except it would cause "double entendre" meters to redline. Maybe if you reserved that particular title for any "worst of" posts you do.
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Carter SolesApril 12, 2011 at 10:09 AM
I'd pick "Dragon Out the Posts" or "Delving With the Dragon" -- or I suppose "The Dragon Flagon" works well with the overall theme of the blog too.
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Greg ChristopherApril 12, 2011 at 4:26 PM
I would just call it "diggin' up bones"

And then have a pic of a dracolich or something.
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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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