Tenkar's Tavern: It Looks Like the Monthly Tunnels & Trolls Hangout is a GO!

Saturday, January 5, 2013

It Looks Like the Monthly Tunnels & Trolls Hangout is a GO!

Looks like there is plenty of interest in a monthly T&T game run via G+ Hangouts. I'm very happy ;)

I'll be putting the house rules doc together (it's mostly a T&T 5.5 with some elements of 7.5) and posting it here when it's done. Do worries if you have one set of rules or the other - it all works out in the end ;)

I'll try and set a time / day before midweek coming up. I'll see if I can sneak a Friday Night in - no guarantees.

I'd like to get character generation done ahead of time, so after the roster is set I may do some mid week 30 minute hangouts to get that sorted out, along with any questions.

I'm not gathering names for the game just yet - I have 2 reserved slots, 4 open and maybe we'll go with one back-up slot. Give me a few days to work out the logistics.

The plan is to run The Dungeon of the Rat by Mike Hill. Hey, you knew it would have to be something to do with rats ;)

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andreeonApril 19, 2018 at 2:21 PM
great! Keep me posted I found out about tunnels & trolls about a week ago I'm looking up everything and I have nobody to play with so I'll be doing a lot of soloing.
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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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Saturday, January 5, 2013

It Looks Like the Monthly Tunnels & Trolls Hangout is a GO!

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