Tenkar's Tavern: Awarding Some "Loot" From the Swords & Wizardry Appreciation Day

Sunday, April 21, 2013

Awarding Some "Loot" From the Swords & Wizardry Appreciation Day

If you commented on the S&W Appreciation Day "Loot" Post, you might be a winner ;)

(other awards are still be ing finalized - damn awesomely prolific bloggers :)

Without any further ado, here's the folks that got their hands on some random loot from the Loot Post:

Faoladh
Fabio Milito Pagilara

The above have found themselves in the possession of $5 credit to RPGNow ($10 if they are members of the 2,000 Coppers G+ Community - they'd have to tell me who they are over there)

Thanks to +Jon Marr , the following will be getting free PDF copies of an adventure from Purple Sorcerer:

The following will be receiving PDF copies of The Ooze Pits of Jonas Gralk:

Elfshadow
+James Smith
Aaron Nuttall
+Dyson Logos
Spikeyoulike

The following will be receiving PDF copies of Perils of the Sunken City

+Rob Barrett
Rob Griffin
Elrics
James Stanton
mbeacon

The above need to email me at tenkarsDOTtavernATgmailDOTcom with their email addy used at RPGNow and we'll get their prizes to them.

5 comments:

Timothy S. BrannanApril 21, 2013 at 9:07 PM
Awesome. Congrats to all the winners.

Special thanks to Erik for pulling this all together.
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Nathan IrvingApril 22, 2013 at 7:50 AM
Great job everyone! I'm still reading through the posts as well, and I love the diversity and imagination!
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Gothridge ManorApril 22, 2013 at 7:52 AM
Erik you are a glutton for punishment. No doubt about that.
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Fabio Milito PagliaraApril 25, 2013 at 12:42 PM
woah :)

loot for me, yeah!!! :)

I am Fabio Milito Pagliara also on g+ and at the 2'000 copper community :)
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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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