Tenkar's Tavern: The Tavern Returns to Normal Business

Friday, April 19, 2013

The Tavern Returns to Normal Business - Stuff That's on Tap

It's been an amazing week with Swords & Wizardry's Appreciation Day blowing past any expectations I may have dreamt up. Although there is still some finalization of gifts / prizes and actual reading of the posts, the Tavern needs to return to normal business.

The following is on tap and will be eventually gotten to, hopefully over the weekend:

- I need to return to the review of Arrows in Indra

- I need to review AL-4 - The Way Station for the DCC RPG by David Przybyla - the fact that David is in my weekly Saturday Night AD&D / OSRIC game will have no effect on my review ;)

- Some assorted Kickstarter crap

- A return to the Tenkar's Landing Swords & Sorcery Campaign setting I'm working on

- maybe I'll actually get to the post that I was hoping to post for the S&W Appreciation Day ;)

- assorted shit in general :)

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Tim KnightApril 20, 2013 at 4:58 AM
I've been eagerly awaiting the continuation of your Arrows Of Indra review as that's an intriguing game that's been on my radar for t awhile that I'd like to know more about before the print edition becomes available.
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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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