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Friday, January 29, 2016

OSR Gaming Forums Go Down - Upon Return, Database is Lost, All Posts Are gone

What can I say?

Not looking so good at the moment.

If you want to restart some threads, here's the website: OSRGaming Forums

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UnknownJanuary 29, 2016 at 8:04 PM
Oh man, that sucks! Didn't someone just pay to acquire the boards?
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Doctor FuturityJanuary 29, 2016 at 9:51 PM
I'd never heard of these boards....wonder if that's where all the drama you mention (but I can never find) happens.
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Zudrak (Michael G.)January 29, 2016 at 10:43 PM
I am sorry to say that I never knew such a site existed (this is quite the rock I live under). I hope they can restore the site soon. The screen shot tells me it's a place I'd enjoy talking games.
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StevenJanuary 29, 2016 at 11:01 PM
Well that sucks. I guess it's good I stopped looking at them and Dragonsfoot a few months ago. But hey, maybe a tabula rasa is a good thing.
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Zudrak (Michael G.)January 30, 2016 at 1:14 AM
I am sorry to say that I never knew such a site existed (this is quite the rock I live under). I hope they can restore the site soon. The screen shot tells me it's a place I'd enjoy talking games.
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Stephen NewtonJanuary 30, 2016 at 3:09 AM
Oh, that sucks. Poor guys.
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Mathew CubgroveJanuary 30, 2016 at 3:23 AM
Have you tried clicking the links?
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Keith H.January 30, 2016 at 9:02 AM
Yikes. I was able to get in after the posts were lost, but today it's telling me my account doesn't exist. I hope Andy can get things squared away soon.
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Raging OwlbearFebruary 2, 2016 at 1:38 PM
Backups, backups, backups...
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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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Friday, January 29, 2016

OSR Gaming Forums Go Down - Upon Return, Database is Lost, All Posts Are gone

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