Tenkar's Tavern: You! Shook Me All Night Long!

Tuesday, August 23, 2011

You! Shook Me All Night Long!

I hope everyone is okay on the rest of the East Coast. I felt the quake up here in NYC. Pretty weird feeling.

I'm sure Christian is an old hat at this ;)

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christianAugust 23, 2011 at 3:42 PM
That's so funny that you say that. When I heard the news I thought, "5.9? Man, I'm just roll over and go back to bed when there's a 5.9."

All joking aside, I was glad to hear that all is well on the east coast.
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JohnAugust 23, 2011 at 3:51 PM
No real damage here in DC, until you try to get home. Gridlock out the yazoo! After waiting for 40 minutes for my commuter bus, I decided to head back to the office and wait out the traffic.
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Jamie AlbrechtAugust 23, 2011 at 3:52 PM
Yeah, I really couldn't fathom what was going on. My mind went to about three other possibilities before the idea of 'earthquake' came up.
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DRANCEAugust 23, 2011 at 4:03 PM
I've lived here in South Jersey all my life, and this has never happened here before, and I never thought it would happen. I've always heard of earthquakes on the news and thought "Well, don't have to worry about that here, at least." Oh well, I've been very wrong before about many other things.

BTW: when the thing hit, I was in the local Barnes and Noble flipping through a new collection of Lovecraft's stories. I swear to God!
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TenkarAugust 23, 2011 at 6:38 PM
I first thought "oh my God, I have the shakes!", the I thought "where the huge ass truck driving by my office" followed by "it can't be the subway, we're too far" and then "I don't hear an explosion" and finally "Holy Shit! It's an earthquake!" ;)
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2eDMAugust 23, 2011 at 8:21 PM
I'm in Virginia, and only about 40 miles away from Mineral. We've been getting aftershocks every couple of hours now. Thankfully, there's been no real damage. Kinda glad I had all my fragile stuff packed up though.
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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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You! Shook Me All Night Long!

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