Tenkar's Tavern: NTRPG Con 2017 - I Will be Running Two Sessions of "Beneath the Battered Dwarf Tavern" for Swords & Wizardry Light

Friday, April 14, 2017

NTRPG Con 2017 - I Will be Running Two Sessions of "Beneath the Battered Dwarf Tavern" for Swords & Wizardry Light

I'm running two sessions of Beneath the Battered Dwarf Tavern at NTRPG Con 2017 using the Swords & Wizardry Light rules. The sessions will be from 3 PM to 6 PM Thursday and Friday although they may run a little shorter. The scenario isn't a long one but it should be fun :)

Copies of the Swords & Wizardry Light rules will be provided to participants as well as those sweet SWL Class cards. Heck, I just got confirmation from Bad Mike that everyone that attends will get a Swords & Wizardry Legion folder. Woot!

Characters will be rolled at the table. No experience with the Swords & Wizardry rules is necessary (that's the whole point of the "Light rules", right? )

Registration for games opens tonight at 1 AM Eastern Time. There should be seven slots per session, although Rach may jump into one. Wow, I'll get to injure my wife...er, wife's character...and it will all be legal ;P

Although I've been running games over Roll20 for the last five years or so, this will be my first time running face to face games in over 20 years. Have mercy on this old man...

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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, April 14, 2017

NTRPG Con 2017 - I Will be Running Two Sessions of "Beneath the Battered Dwarf Tavern" for Swords & Wizardry Light

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