Tenkar's Tavern: Home From Gary Con - Mostly Without Issues

Monday, March 12, 2018

Home From Gary Con - Mostly Without Issues

Rach and I Ubered from Gary Con to Milwaukee for our flight home. Uber was a few bucks more than the car service we had called, but the car service cancelled 10 minutes after we made our reservation. Ah well.

There was no line at the TSA checkpoint at the airport. All was well until Rach's bag got pulled for inspection, followed by mine.

Rach's bag got pulled for trying to pass 8 ozs of hair conditioner through the carry on checkpoint. She knew better but bought it at the Grand Geneva Spa. Oh well.

My luggage got pulled for dice. More specifically, my dice bag with my original set of dice from 1979. When the TSA agent located the culprits she smiled. I'm guessing gamers were an issue over the last 36 hours or so.

Okay, enough for tonight. I'm beat to shit. I do have more con related stuff to share. Want to get 20% off at the Frog God Website? I've got the skinny...

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Laramie WallMarch 13, 2018 at 1:38 AM
Discount you say....???
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Matt FinchMarch 13, 2018 at 6:19 PM
My bag got searched for the dice bag, too.
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UnknownMarch 13, 2018 at 6:55 PM
My dice bag got fondled by security as well
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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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Monday, March 12, 2018

Home From Gary Con - Mostly Without Issues

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