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Tuesday, March 5, 2013

I Stand Corrected - ENWorld is Super Fast Now

Apparently ENWorld's speed (or lack there of) will no longer be the butt of jokes - it is lightning fast now. I'm not just talking the main page but the forums too.

Colour me impressed (yep, used the Queen's English there)

I guess the ENWorld Kickstarter did do it's job.

Now my remaining complaint is the lack of "Old School" activity in their forums, but maybe that will come with the exposure Old School gaming is getting with the WotC reprints and PDF releases.

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Greyhawk GrognardMarch 5, 2013 at 1:42 PM
Every time anything remotely old school came up in the old ENWorld forums, it was roundly criticized, mocked, and beaten up. I have no reason to suspect that'll change, and thus no reason to visit ENWorld unless someone points me to some specific thread that contains something they think I'd be interested in. And even then, I'm hesitant.
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JeremyMarch 5, 2013 at 4:46 PM
I don't think so. At best old school stuff gets treated like a zoo animal or something people do for laughs, like those parties where people dress up as homeless people.. They might do it, but it's only to make fun of it there.
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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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Tuesday, March 5, 2013

I Stand Corrected - ENWorld is Super Fast Now

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