Tenkar's Tavern: Any Gen Con Plans for Those That Aren't Going?

Wednesday, August 14, 2013

Any Gen Con Plans for Those That Aren't Going?

Are you doing anything to celebrate NOT attending GEN Con 2013? ;)

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Stuart K.August 14, 2013 at 2:48 PM
Doing editing and layout on two DCC RPG modules and playtesting some variant rules for a game I wrote about rogue police officers trying to solve one last case.
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Stephen NewtonAugust 14, 2013 at 3:14 PM
I'm playing some game tonight ("Doom of the Savage Kings") and hope to get some quality work done on my next DCC RPG module. I'm also hoping that despite all the GenCon activity, Mr. Goodman will have a chance to approve Larvik so I can get that posted to rpgnow.com
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Tim SniderAugust 14, 2013 at 3:17 PM
Wrapping up the editing and layout of a new Mutant Future supplement I've been working on for a few years. Maybe run a game or two at the FLGS. Might give away some goodies over at my blog.
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Timothy S. BrannanAugust 14, 2013 at 3:23 PM
Supposed to play some AD&D 1 with a group of kids this weekend. That is if I ever get the characters made. This is my first year not going in s very long time.
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UnknownAugust 14, 2013 at 5:30 PM
I plan on crying myself to sleep tonight, but beyond that... :)
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Spes Magna MarkAugust 14, 2013 at 9:35 PM
I introduced my children to "The Kids in the Hall". Does that count?
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Digital OrcAugust 14, 2013 at 9:44 PM
Well... in 2012 I wasn't able to make it and my GM was, so I stopped by his condo, photoshopped a smashed window into his brand new jeep and shot him a text; "What HAPPENED?" I may have to do something similar this year. You can see the pic at: http://digitalorc.blogspot.com/2011/08/gencon-revenge.html
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Hex OxAugust 15, 2013 at 8:32 PM
Nothing special, just school, DCC, and Star Wars, like almost every week.
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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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Any Gen Con Plans for Those That Aren't Going?

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