Tenkar's Tavern: The Tavern Chat Podcast - Episode 102 - Can Eldritch Tales Bring Insanity to All?

Sunday, August 26, 2018

The Tavern Chat Podcast - Episode 102 - Can Eldritch Tales Bring Insanity to All?

Joe Salvador really put together an amazing ruleset for Mythos Roleplaying building off of Swords & Wizardry White Box. Now I may just need to reverse engineer it to steal ideas for a more (or less) traditional fantasy campaign ;)

I've really been enjoying the time I've spent so far reading Joe Salvador's Eldritch Tales: Lovecraftian White Box Role-Playing. It's inspired me to think of ways to bring the game's insanity rules and class skills to both fantasy and sci-fi themed OSR rules. I may be insane myself? ;)

Link to Episode 102 - https://anchor.fm/tavernchat/episodes/Episode-102---Can-Eldritch-Tales-Bring-Insanity-to-All-e23jqu

Link to Eldritch Tales - https://www.rpgnow.com/product/250356/Eldritch-Tales-Lovecraftian-White-Box-RolePlaying&affiliate_id=1446 (affiliate link)

Link to the Tenkar's Tavern Patreon - tenkars-tavern.games/patreon

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Farsight BloggerSeptember 4, 2018 at 9:32 AM
The insanity rules would be great in White Star for that Alien-inspired game of interstellar horror!
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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, August 26, 2018

The Tavern Chat Podcast - Episode 102 - Can Eldritch Tales Bring Insanity to All?

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