Tenkar's Tavern: Pile That Plate High - A Look at the Projects And Other Time Sinks I Have In Place

Monday, March 23, 2015

Pile That Plate High - A Look at the Projects And Other Time Sinks I Have In Place

Last week, one of the players that played in my short run Sunday Morning Crypts & Things campaign two years ago wanted to get members of my old (high school, college and beyond) to commit to a Sunday morning ongoing campaign via Roll20. Needless to say, I'd be running it.

I felt a need to point out the following: I'm in a regular Saturday Night Roll20 group and run a more or less monthly Friday Night Roll20 group. I moderate a chat here at The Tavern on Wednesday Nights and record The Brainstorm Podcast on Tuesday Evenings. Every other Sunday afternoon, we record the Far & Away Podcast and I owe the fine patrons of The Tavern a monthly Hangout on G+. I owe two fine folks content for their Kickstarters, I owe my Patrons content on the blogside and I put multiple blog posts up on a daily basis. Not to mention a 43 hr work week when not working overtime as well as finding time with my family (uncle duty is most Wednesday Afternoons and Saturday - All Day - auntie is on duty too.)

Needless to say, I could only commit to every other Sunday Morning ;)

Actually, if I showed this breakdown to Rachel, she'd probably tell me I'm insane... heh

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J. SullivanMarch 23, 2015 at 7:17 PM
Well, your work is appreciated! This has become one of my go-to blogs.
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AnonymousMarch 23, 2015 at 8:52 PM
You ARE insane.. you still have slots open on Monday night, Thursday night, Saturday Morning and Sunday night! Seriously, though, I knew kids in college who would have played D&D 24/7 if school hadn't kept getting in the way. Heck, some of 'em did. And then next semester we'd have to find a new Cleric, or Fighter or something. But it was fun while it lasted. Graduating sucked.. LOL
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UnknownMarch 23, 2015 at 9:00 PM
Yeah, that's pretty insane. I have a bi-monthly tabletop HERO game on Friday nights, a bi-monthly D&D 5 Roll20 game on Sunday nights, a bi-monthly D&D 5 Roll20 game on opposite Saturday nights, a monthly table-top Savage Worlds game, I try to get on the Happy Jack's podcast as much as I can, and I have the best intentions of growing my blog via more frequent posts... that's usually what falls off the table, heh.
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Brett SlocumMarch 24, 2015 at 11:28 AM
I could do that if I didn't have this pesky job. I keep planning on buying lottery tickets, but then my math skills kick in.
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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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Monday, March 23, 2015

Pile That Plate High - A Look at the Projects And Other Time Sinks I Have In Place

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