Tenkar's Tavern: Reminder - Uncle Matt's D&D Studio - 2018: Year of the OSR Livestream

Friday, December 29, 2017

Reminder - Uncle Matt's D&D Studio - 2018: Year of the OSR Livestream - 4PM Eastern

See? I told you I'd find the link ;)

This afternoon at 4PM Eastern, +Matt Finch and +Zach Glazar will be streaming live at 4 PM Eastern. The topic will be 2018: Year of the OSR.

Use the link above and abuse them... er... chat with them as they livestream.

I'll be there. Heck, I just finished recording an episode of Old School Gamer Radio with Matt minutes ago (should be up on Monday)

Its noon. Time for lunch...

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Venger SatanisDecember 29, 2017 at 1:04 PM
Be sure to post highlights for those of us swamped until kids go back to school.
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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, December 29, 2017

Reminder - Uncle Matt's D&D Studio - 2018: Year of the OSR Livestream - 4PM Eastern

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