Tenkar's Tavern: The Tavern makes it's ENnies Picks

Wednesday, July 16, 2014

The Tavern makes it's ENnies Picks - Part the First

It's that time. Time for me to use my undue influence for EVIL! Or, failing that, at least point out the OSR picks and such for the ENnies.

So, where do we start?

- Best Adventure - Razor Coast: Heart of the Razor - Frog God Games - S&W and Pathfinder, ya gotta support the Frawgs

- Best Aid/Accessory - Odyssey: The Complete Game Master's Guide to Campaign Management - Engine Publishing - it's a useful resource. Can you ask for much more? Sure, it's also well written.

- Best Art, Interior - Shadows of Esteren Book 2 - Travels - Agate Editions - all of the Shadows of Esteren releases are visually amazing

- Best Art, Cover - Razor Coast - Frog God Games - Achtung! Cthulhu - Keeper's Guide to the Secret War - Modiphius works well too

- Best Blog - Gnome Stew (The Other Side isn't a bad choice either) - no, The Tavern isn't on the list. Must be blacklisted because of all of the Lemmings

- Best Cartography - Razor Coast - Frog God Games - Map of the Flanaess - Anna B Meyer Fantasy Maps is a decent choice too

- Best Electronic Book - FT 0 - Faerie Tales from Unlit Shores: Prince Charming, Reanimator - Purple Duck Games - a DCC RPG adventure by +Daniel Bishop - do you really need to know more - just vote

Thus ends part 1 of the the 2014 Lemming List ;)

14 comments:

(M)EFGJuly 16, 2014 at 8:01 AM
Now where can, sorry MUST, I jump off a cliff? I do not think for themself, so I need your input here.
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ravencrowkingJuly 16, 2014 at 8:10 AM
Thank you for your support, Erik.

Go, Lemmings, Go!
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Timothy S. BrannanJuly 16, 2014 at 8:19 AM
"Isn't a bad choice either". Ha! I'll take it! ;)

But seriously, Gnome Stew has won Best Blog since 2010 time for some new faces. Ok my face isn't exactly new...but you get my idea.

Thanks for the plug. I have to admit I am a bit surprised the Tavern didn't get a best blog nom.
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Peter DJuly 16, 2014 at 10:40 AM
Oh great, the lemmings thing is sticking. Now every dungeon will have a horde of lemmings in it, guarding 2000 cp.
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Michael SandarJuly 16, 2014 at 11:30 AM
Us lemmings agree. Wholeheartedly.

...like we had a choice.

:-p
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Steven DJuly 16, 2014 at 11:58 AM
Because it may be useful in the future:

Dire Lemming
HD: 2 AC: 5 Atk: 2 claws 1d6 SV: 15 Move: 12 Alignment: Neutral

Special: A Dire Lemming will "follow the crowd". For example, if a Dire Lemming is charmed into jumping off a nearby cliff, all Dire Lemmings in the vicinity will follow suit.
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Venger SatanisJuly 16, 2014 at 3:27 PM
Do you have any experience with the nominated entries?
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Scott AndersonJuly 16, 2014 at 4:35 PM
Mega dittoes
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Doctor FuturityJuly 16, 2014 at 5:16 PM
Almost nothing I have bought in the last year is even on this list. I have some Numenera and Pathfinder stuff....and I'll unequivocally vote for The Other Side blog since I stop by all the time --I came for Zatannurday but stayed for the witchiness of it all =)
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John MiddletonJuly 17, 2014 at 7:18 PM
I wouldn't support an entry just because it is OSR. There is plenty of stuff nominated that is excellent in it's own right.

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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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The Tavern makes it's ENnies Picks - Part the First

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