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Wednesday, December 30, 2015

What Does One Do When They Can Not Game? They...

buy more games ;)

That's what I've been doing recently. I've been stalking eBay for the old collectibles. Snagging an OCE White Box for $75 has just whetted the appetite ;)

My Tunnels & Trolls collection doesn't have too many holes. T&T 1e is impossible to find (so I'll settle for the reprint). I have Ken St. Andre's personal copy of 2e. I'm still looking for a 3e copy and from 4e on I have multiples and various variants.

So I think Judge's Guild will be my next target :)

Actually, I could target early RuneQuest releases, but I expect the time to do so is when the 2e reprints start hitting the market with the recently successful RQ2 Kickstarter.

I guess I could actually read the stuff I already own, but if I had the time for that I'd be gaming ;)

So, what do you do when you can't game for an extended period of time?

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AnonymousDecember 31, 2015 at 2:12 AM
So, what do you do when you can't game for an extended period of time?

Start a blog of my own that didn't explicitly start OSR, but is getting weirder by the day. Now if I could just hit the damn "post" button more and spend less time tuning and rewriting and redrawing upcoming posts....

Also, shaking my fist at the cold. My new favorite hobby.
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SizzaxeDecember 31, 2015 at 2:38 AM
Write (largely for my own interests), create dungeons, read (mostly fantasy and horror), talk with distant friends about gaming, work on my perpetually unfinished mega-game, binge on old sci-fi series, re-read my old KODT comics to name a few things ;-)
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goeticgeekDecember 31, 2015 at 5:04 AM
I also buy more games. When I was young, I had no money but lots of time so I had a small selection of RPGs and played them all the time. Now I am old, I have lots of money but no time so I'm constantly getting new stuff but never play any of it. Maybe when I'm really old, I'll have both time and money to buy and play but I fear, by then, no one will be playing these games anymore.
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foreshameDecember 31, 2015 at 9:53 AM
Colour-in unpainted miniatures from a collection going back 32 years.

I've only recently started into this and the novelty hasn't worn off yet.
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Phillip RileyJanuary 30, 2016 at 7:03 AM
I wanted to start gaming again, but my old group had all moved on. So I started playing Ingress, a location based phone app. I've met lots of cool people and found a regular gaming group! Now I game every Sunday.
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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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