Tenkar's Tavern: The Tavern Chat Podcast - Episode 90 - Kickstarter Roundup for August 14, 2018

Tuesday, August 14, 2018

The Tavern Chat Podcast - Episode 90 - Kickstarter Roundup for August 14, 2018

Tuesdays are Kickstarter Day here at the Tavern Chat Podcast. Oh, and we even have a small Gail Gygax update which amounts to this - the 30-year company Gail refers to in her Facebook rant is TriGee (Cyborg Commando anyone?). TriGee was incorporated in Gail's name when it was formed, this it is "her company." See, knowing is half the battle.

Now, what has TriGee published in the last 25 years?

Yep, it's a Tuesday, so that means Crowdfunding projects get a peek. But first, an update on Gail Gygax and her "30-year company". Here's are the projects I look at in today's episode: The City that Dripped Blood: A Fantasy Adventure, The Year of Cthulhu - A 2019 Calendar, Dungeon Delve #2: Dungeons of the Dread Wyrm, Brindlemarsh, a 1E & 5E adventure of Dragons and Dungeons, Dungeons of Doom V: Law Vs Chaos + Star Hat Miniatures, and Birthday Gemstone Dice.

Link to Episode 90 - https://anchor.fm/tavernchat/episodes/Episode-90---Kickstarter-Roundup-for-August-14--2018-e210bl

Project Links:

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/the-city-that-dripped-blood-a-fantasy-adventure-horror/x/512954#/

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/newcometgames/the-year-of-cthulhu-a-2019-calendar?ref=discovery&term=comet

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/182043854/dungeon-delve-2-dungeons-of-the-dread-wyrm

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/lmetcalf/brindlemarsh-a-1e-and-5e-adventure-of-dragons-and

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/darcyperry/dungeons-of-doom-v-law-vs-chaos-star-hat-miniature

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/380587749/birthday-gemstone-dice?ref=discovery&ref=discovery&term=rpg

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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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