Tenkar's Tavern: Minotaur Gladiator - Exchanging Gladiatorial Pits For the Tunnels of T&T

Thursday, January 17, 2013

Minotaur Gladiator - Exchanging Gladiatorial Pits For the Tunnels of T&T

Minotaur Gladiator

Monster Rating: 80

Combat Dice: *13D6 + 80 (see Special)

Special Damage - Minotaur Gladiators fight with a 4d6 Gladiator Sword which is included in it's Combat Dice

Har! A good fight is a great thing, but even a bad fight is a good thing. See these muscles? Years of training in the Gladiator Pits. See my scars? Years of Fighting in the Gladiator Games. See that puddle of piss? Your 's right before I remove your head from your shoulders...

(Thanks to Craig Brasco for giving me permission to use the above art)

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Timothy S. BrannanJanuary 18, 2013 at 8:19 AM
I have a soft spot in my heart for T&T. Thanks for keeping these posts going. Looking forward to the new version.
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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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Thursday, January 17, 2013

Minotaur Gladiator - Exchanging Gladiatorial Pits For the Tunnels of T&T

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