Tenkar's Tavern: Holiday Weekend Wrap Up - Or - Why I had a Great Weekend and Accomplished Crap

Monday, May 30, 2011

Holiday Weekend Wrap Up - Or - Why I had a Great Weekend and Accomplished Crap

I had an excellent four day weekend.

On Friday I shopped and prepped for my son's birthday party.

Saturday was the day of the party. Went better then I could have ever hoped. My fiancee's family and my family met for the first time. No hiccups ;) The kid racked up the gifts and I met some of his friends. They seem level headed and cool. One even asked me how my son ever found himself such an amazing family (this is as I was driving them all home). Left me speechless ;)

Sunday was "bum around the yard and enjoy the sun" day. Which I did very well with, as my left shoulder (and it's newly resident sunburn) will attest to.

Today was my son's actual birthday. Took him shopping (and driving - the lad loves to drive). Small ice cream cake after dinner, so he got to celebrate twice.

Didn't do ANY wallpapering or painting. I really need to get cracking. It's getting hot these days too. Damn it!

I'll be reading more Raggi and Zak tonight (as I have been during my free time this weekend). Vornheim REALLY works much better in dead tree then it does in PDF. Some of those charts tho' are way too f'n small in font size! Grrrrrrrrr!

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christianMay 30, 2011 at 11:06 PM
It sounds like you had an awesome family weekend. I was watering the yard yesterday and I was thinking about you, your son and the amazing job you've done since his mom's passing. Way to go, brother.

Take care,
Christin
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TenkarMay 31, 2011 at 12:58 PM
Shit Chris - you're gonna make me all sappy and stuff ;)

I've been blessed.
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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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