Tenkar's Tavern: Damn You Vince! Looks Like I'll be Going to MEPACon in November

Friday, August 15, 2014

Damn You Vince! Looks Like I'll be Going to MEPACon in November

I'd like to give a big FU to +Vincent Florio . He mentioned MEPA to me, and I mentioned it to my wife, and it looks like we are going in November.

MEPACon is the Mid Eastern Pennsylvania Con, held in the Scranton area. Apparently the hotel has a pool AND is pet friendly. Sigh. I never had a chance.

Any of my blog readers plan on attending? Maybe we can do a Tavern Gathering :)

Mark November 14-16 on your calendar. I may need to run something.

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HiggipediaAugust 15, 2014 at 9:52 PM
Oddly enough, I've never been. I'll likely be getting close to crunch time at school then, so I don't think I can commit.
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DesaAugust 15, 2014 at 9:52 PM
Hey! I invited you last year, man! Can't wait to see you there, maybe we'll end up in a game together.
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Steven DAugust 15, 2014 at 9:59 PM
Shame I don't live in PA any more. :(
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Brett SlocumAugust 15, 2014 at 10:08 PM
Unfortunately, I'll be at U-Con in Ypsilanti Michigan that weekend running Tekumel with my new OSR rules.
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The Game MasterAugust 15, 2014 at 11:16 PM
HAHA! I knew you would go :)
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The DaveAugust 16, 2014 at 3:39 PM
That's a very specific Con :)
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Smokestack JonesAugust 17, 2014 at 11:28 PM
He has that effect on people.

Fortunately, I ain't people, which is why I never go.

-SJ
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Reese LaundryAugust 18, 2014 at 2:31 PM
How about a definite "maybe"? My daughter is a varsity HS swimmer and the sectional championships are almost always the same weekend as MEPACon. If nothing else, I might run down for Sunday only, so be sure to wear your Tenkar and the Badger T-Shirt so I can find you if I do.
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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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Damn You Vince! Looks Like I'll be Going to MEPACon in November

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