Tenkar's Tavern: 83 Blogs From Across the World Have Signed up for the S&W Appreciation Day Blogathon

Wednesday, April 3, 2013

83 Blogs From Across the World Have Signed up for the S&W Appreciation Day Blogathon - Can We Hit 100?

We currently have 83 84 blogs signed up for the Swords & Wizardry Appreciation Day Blogathon, which is to take place on April 17th. Which means I have 83 blogs listed and hyperlinked, and finally descriptions for many of them.

The list is growing. I'd love to see it hit 100. Not sure what I can add to the pot of goodies, but I'm sure we'll find something.

Add yourself as a comment to this posting if you aren't on the list and would like to be. If you are on the list and still need to "describe your blog in 5 words or less" add it here too. I still need to catch up on the G+ side of things, but I'm getting there ;)

Tenkar's Tavern is going with: "OSR To the Core!"

List of Participating Blogs:

1 - Chronicles of Ganth! - Homebrewed heartbreaker

2 - Secrets of the Shadowend

3 - They Might Be Gazebos

4 - Mad-Kyndalanth - 'to share good stories afterwards'

5 - Dizzy Dungeon

6 - Gothridge Manor - OMG, its full of Sleestaks

7 - Lapsus Calumni

8 - 19th Level

9 - Sycarion Diversions - "One day, Spelljammer will return!"

10 - Dorkland!

11 - Worlds Galore

12 - Dreams of My Mystic Fantasy

13 - Daily OSR fix - Random tables makes me smile

14 - BrewLab Gaming Concepts

15 - Realms of Chirak - "Eclectic Gaming Madness from Camazotz"

16 - Quickly, Quietly, Carefully - OD&D exegis, retro stupid fun

17 - Dreams in the Lich House

18 - Hereticwerks

19 - RPG Delisi

20 - The Retired Adventurer

21 - Semper Initiativus Unum

22 - Red Box Denver

23 - Bat in the Attic

24 - Reverend Dak dot Blogspot

25 - The Ongoing Campaign - Obscure Games and Famous Ones

26 - The Other Side

27 - d20 Dialectic

28 - Once More Unto the Breach - Rediscovering the joy of roleplaying!

29 - Venger's old school gaming blog

30 - Fear No Darkness - reasons...not rules

31 - Mythmere's Blog (Mr S&W Himself ;)

32 - Gamers & Grodnards

33 - Dispatches From Kickassistan

34 - Six Sarcophagi

35 - Edgar's Game Blog

36 - Spes Magna Games

37 - The Space Cockroach's Hideout - Space, Modern and fantastic Adventures

38 - inthecitiesdotcom

39 - Sorcerer Under Mountain

40 - Tenkar's Tavern - "OSR To the Core!"

41 - No School Like the Old School

42 - Blessings of the Dice Gods

43 - Porky's Expanse - a nebulous region of hobby space

44 - The Clash of Spear on Sword

45 - Roll to Carouse!

46 - Ilea jacta Est - A 20-Sided Look at Life

47 - Blood & Battle - Swords & Wizardry resources, reviews, recaps

48 - Starting Over With the OSR

49 - Sandbox of Doom

50 - Lord Archaon's Grimoire

51 - Battle Axes and Beasties - Sporadic Babbling about Various Stuff

52 - Apathy Blogs

53 - Applied Phantasticality

54 - Strange Stones - Strange Stones: Demons, Rogues, and Lemurian Barbarians

55 - Mystic Bull Games

56 - Le Verre Violet - Hexcrawls, Blackmoor, Carcosa and OD&Dities

57 - The Sorcerer Speaks! - Purple Sorcerer News, and stuff

58 - The Crazy GM

59 - O Druida Hierofante (The Hierophant Druid)

60 - The Rusty Battle Axe

61 - Keith Davies -- In My Campaign - Too heavy for Tenkar's reading ;)

62 - Necropraxis - OD&D, rules hacking, necromantic musings

63 - Rended Press - Free typos deal double damage!

64 - Hunter's Quarry

65 - hDan's YAGB - Traveller, D&D and related interests

66 - Like Being Read to From Dictionaries - It's Like Reading A Dictionary

67 - Vargold - The Wolf-Time

68 - The Wizard's Chest

69 - Wampus Country

70 - Troll & Flame

71 - Epic RPG Blog - San Diego's RPG Scene

72 - Kingdoms in Trevail - Infrequent & random old-school gaming thoughts :)

73 - Jeffro's Space Gaming Blog - Microgames, Monster Games, and RPG's

74 - Swords & Dorkery - the name is the description

75 - Dice of Doom - Old School Cool

76 - Infinite Dragons - Adventure Unlimited

77 - Dyson's Dodecahedron - Award Winning Dungeon Design

78 - The Ultimate Josha - RPG reviews, stories, and thoughts

79 - Places to Go, People to Be - RPGs are easily accessible self-expression

80 - Tales From the Tower - Recaps, Campaign Info, Game Art

81 - Tenfootpole - Hypocrite reviews OSR adventures

82 - Ynas Midgard's OSR Blog - irregular musings and content for D&D

83 - Castelli & Chimere (Castles & Chimeras) - My musings on D&D (OSR)

84 - What Do I Know? - One Gamer Yapping; Many RPGs

85 - Dungeon of Signs - Drunken OSR glossolalia

86 - The Frothy Friar - Advancing back to basics
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87 - Edgar's Game Blog - Recaps, Philosophy, & Games Within Games
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88 - The Adventures of the Clock Caravel - Eclectic Crowdsourced Virtual Steampunk Roleplaying

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9 comments:

Keith DaviesApril 3, 2013 at 9:06 PM
heh, you did use that one, rather than "Keith's thoughts on roleplaying games".

Cool. It's funny watching you react when I ask if you've read something I wrote.
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The Frothy FriarApril 3, 2013 at 9:20 PM
You can add my site to the list if you like http://frothyfriar.blogspot.com/

"Advancing back to basics"
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AnonymousApril 3, 2013 at 9:49 PM
Well now I gotta add mine: http://jclemon.net

"Requiem for a Muse"
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ScottApril 3, 2013 at 9:56 PM
Scottenkainenland (http://scottenkainenland.blogspot.com/), because I sometimes cover Hideouts & Hoodlums on my blog and H&H is the superhero game built on S&W!
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Nathan IrvingApril 3, 2013 at 10:48 PM
#2 - Secrets of the Shadowend - Killing things; taking stuff.
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mbeacomApril 4, 2013 at 12:32 AM
64 - Hunter's Quarry: C&C, ACKS, 4E & OSR, FIGHT!
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imredaveApril 4, 2013 at 12:46 AM
I always love a full bandwagon. Please add "Forgotten Runes" at http://forgottenrunes.blogspot.com
If nothing else I can finish that review of S&W I've been meaning to crank out.
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SteinkelApril 4, 2013 at 6:34 AM
You can add our site: www.lamarcadeleste.com
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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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Wednesday, April 3, 2013

83 Blogs From Across the World Have Signed up for the S&W Appreciation Day Blogathon - Can We Hit 100?

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