Tenkar's Tavern: An Early Spring, Complete With Hiccups

Sunday, March 11, 2012

An Early Spring, Complete With Hiccups

I'm not even sure if winter ever fully settled in this year. Very little snow, no ice - heck, I never even broke out my winter jacket. I survived with my fall fleece (although I doubled up on the fleece a handful of days).

Now it's March 11th and my front yard is in full bloom. This is NYC, mind you, so I'm just happy I have a front yard that can grow flowers ;)

Spring often brings new and / or fresh starts, which I might be looking for. Looks like the Saturday Night game is wrapping up, not due to any sort of player issues but more to the tune of "system issues". It's been a great group to play with and the party truly gelled but no one is all that satisfied with the system. We'll see what happens next.

Hey, I wanted to start up a campaign or two in any case. I may just have to accelerate the process ;)

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christianMarch 11, 2012 at 4:03 PM
Those daffodils look very happy. :)
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DranceMarch 11, 2012 at 5:44 PM
Lookin good in my yard too! F snow, I'll take this sort of winter every year.
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matt jacksonMarch 11, 2012 at 8:06 PM
Having spent last year in Iraq, I was really looking forward to seeing some snow or a blizzard or two, but got neither. It has really warmed up here as well and the grass is starting to grow. My yard, however, is completely dead, one more weekend filled with gymnastics and then I will get to work on it.
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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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An Early Spring, Complete With Hiccups

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