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Sunday, April 22, 2012

Playing Catch Up With Game of Thrones on a Rainy Sunday

I caught the 1st two episodes of the series last year, but as I had to rely of the kindness of friends (no HBO - can't justify it) I never caught the rest. Until I realized Amazon had the 1st season for sale in DVD. Quickly snagged it.

Today is a nice rainy day here in NYC, so I figured I'd see if my wife was open to watching it. As she fell asleep during the Fellowship of the Ring just after the initial credits, I figure red this would turn into one of those "watch it while she's at yoga" type of shows.

Nope. Although she almost succumbed to Mr Sandman in the first 20 minutes, she suddenly got hooked. Hooked as in me telling her after we watched episode 6 "We have work in the morning and 4 more hours of viewing to finish the season. Let's call it for now."

She's hooked, I'm having a blast. It's going to be a long wait for season 2 when we wrap this up ;)

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JasonZavodaApril 22, 2012 at 10:23 PM
I put about 20 min into the first episode before turning it off. I didn't like the books but I was hoping that the tv show would be different and better. I will have to give it another try.
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Rob CrockerApril 23, 2012 at 4:47 AM
My wife and I love the series too. We are now in the long wait for season 2 since we don't have HBO either...

You guys should watch the Pillars of the Earth series, that was really good too! You wouldn't think a story about building a cathedral would be as entertaining.
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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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