Tenkar's Tavern: The Tavern Chat Podcast - Episode 101 - R Good & Evil Simply a Matter of Perspective?

Saturday, August 25, 2018

The Tavern Chat Podcast - Episode 101 - R Good & Evil Simply a Matter of Perspective?

Back in my college days, I wanted to experiment with a campaign where the Church of Saint Cuthbert was in schism and effectively at war with itself. It made me think about good and evil as a perspective.

Are good and evil simply matters of perspective? Different sides of the same coin? Does evil see itself as "evil?" Can a church in schism view the breakway as evil? Gaming thoughts with your old school bartender.

Link to Episode 101 - https://anchor.fm/tavernchat/episodes/Episode-101---R-Good--Evil-Simply-a-Matter-of-Perspective-e23f6n

Link to the Lord of the Rings RPG Humble Bundle - tenkars-tavern.games/LotR-RPG-Bundle (affiliate link)

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Venger SatanisAugust 25, 2018 at 10:53 AM
Philosophical fun! Also, "god and evil," Freudian slip?
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ForgottenDMAugust 26, 2018 at 1:27 PM
kill them all St Cuthbert will sort them out. Detect Heretic spell finds person whose worship of a diety is differant then your own.
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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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Saturday, August 25, 2018

The Tavern Chat Podcast - Episode 101 - R Good & Evil Simply a Matter of Perspective?

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