Tenkar's Tavern: The Tavern Chat Podcast - Episode 67 - There's a Succubus Holding a Monster Manual!

Sunday, July 22, 2018

The Tavern Chat Podcast - Episode 67 - There's a Succubus Holding a Monster Manual!

Ah, the beauty of late 70's / early 80's advertising. She could have been on a Ratt album cover back in the day ;)

You fiend! Yep, that IS a Succubus holding a Monster Manual. Who would have thought? With this episode, I look at demons & devils in the AD&D 1e Monster Manual and my personal experience with the Satanic Panic from back in the day ;)

Link to Episode 67 - https://anchor.fm/tavernchat/episodes/Episode-67---Theres-a-Succubus-Holding-a-Monster-Manual-e1rfv3

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Keith DaviesJuly 22, 2018 at 12:14 PM
"Funny Fact: Almost any first-edition Monster Manual, dropped spine-first on a bed, will fall open to page 17." -- Doc Cross
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TheShadowKnowsJuly 22, 2018 at 1:26 PM
Is that Elise Gygax? I know she appeared in some of the other TSR ads of the period, and was smoking hot in all of them.
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SpudeusJuly 23, 2018 at 11:40 AM
Looked at through today's full-frontal-filter, hard to believe that illustration ever caused controversy. They went out of their way to conceal/cover everything!
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T.G. MooreJuly 23, 2018 at 7:46 PM
Calculating for inflation $10 in 1977 would be $41.58 in 2018.
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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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Sunday, July 22, 2018

The Tavern Chat Podcast - Episode 67 - There's a Succubus Holding a Monster Manual!

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