Tenkar's Tavern: A Shelf, Soon to Hold Minis & Terrain (and attempting to hold off China, Vases and more)

Thursday, March 27, 2014

A Shelf, Soon to Hold Minis & Terrain (and attempting to hold off China, Vases and more)

We're having contractor work going on over here at the Tenkar Abode. This shelving unit also closed off a doorway between the living room and my son's room.

The second shelf from the bottom has been bestowed upon me for use in displaying my Reaper's Bones and Dwarven Forge Game Tiles. Thankfully, the Dwarven Forge tiles are painted - I guess I'll need to paint the Bones too.

I suspect the rest of the shelves will hold teapots, vases, porcelain dolls, china and the like. Ah well, I should consider myself blessed I have a foothold outside the "man cave corner" ;)

and now for something completely different:

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Nathan IrvingMarch 27, 2014 at 11:31 PM
nice looking shelves. I'd like to do something similar, but I'm having to add doorways in my house, not subtract them. :(
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AnonymousMarch 28, 2014 at 9:22 PM
>"This shelving unit also closed off a doorway between the living room and my son's room"

I hope that wasn't the *only* doorway... LOL

Nice music, too, thanks.
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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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Thursday, March 27, 2014

A Shelf, Soon to Hold Minis & Terrain (and attempting to hold off China, Vases and more)

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