Tenkar's Tavern: NTRPG Con Reminder - Game Registration is 1 AM April 15th Eastern Time (So Stay up Late Tomorrow)

Wednesday, April 13, 2016

NTRPG Con Reminder - Game Registration is 1 AM April 15th Eastern Time (So Stay up Late Tomorrow)

NTRPG Con Game Event Registration goes live 1AM Friday Morning (April 15th, 2016) - so stay up late tomorrow night ;) There are already 290 folks registered for the con with just 60 slots left open. If you plan on going, time is running short.

I (and probably a few others) will be running some games "off the grid" in The Tavern's OSR Community Room (Trinity I). My plan is to run at least one session of White Star / Star Slinger and possibly a session of +Pete Spahn 's WWII: Operation WhiteBox (I have a beta version of the rules, so even if it isn't released by then we can still get a session in).

Games at The Tavern's Table will be scheduled AFTER April 15th, as I see where I'm at in regards to games I'm registered for as well as some other Tavern readers. I'm planning on 1 game each on Thursday, Friday and Saturday from the official grid, which leaves plenty of time for off the grid gaming (including Wednesday Night and Sunday)

We will announce The Tavern's Table Games here on the blogside, as well as 2,000 Coppers on G+ and The Tavern's Facebook Community. The G+ and Facebook Communities are also the place to ask to reserve table time off the grid if you'd like to run something. I'll be blocking out time at the table for the use of various podcasts and podcasters, but there should be plenty of time for gaming.

Oh, and plenty of Drinking Quest in the evenings. +Tim Snider says so ;)

As a side note, there will be a bonus Tavern Chat kicking off around midnite tomorrow as I get ready to register myself and Rach for games.

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Mystic ScholarApril 13, 2016 at 8:01 PM
Can't make it this year, but one of these days . . .
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petespahnApril 13, 2016 at 8:31 PM
That's really great news! For those who haven't heard, WWII: Operation WhiteBox is a Swords & Wizardry hack that allows you to play WWII special forces operatives (SOE/OSS, SAS, LRDG, U.S. Airborne, etc.).

The game is currently in the layout stage. We've got a G+ community page here where we're posting updates as we go.

Check us out: https://plus.google.com/wm/1/communities/100846094177083736725
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BadmikeApril 15, 2016 at 12:35 PM
Went smooth, the new server helped. Can't wait to see everyone!
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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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Wednesday, April 13, 2016

NTRPG Con Reminder - Game Registration is 1 AM April 15th Eastern Time (So Stay up Late Tomorrow)

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