Tenkar's Tavern: RPG Breakfast Club - Discord

Saturday, October 20, 2018

RPG Breakfast Club - Discord - 9 AM Eastern

Tomorrow morning at 9 AM Eastern is the inaugural RPG Breakfast Club Chat on the Tenkar's Tavern Discord Server.

Looking for an invite? Look no further: https://discord.gg/tdVSQeG

Join your hosts Carl, Doug, Rob, Todd, and Golan as they talk all things OSR and RPG related. Bring your own coffee or tea ;)

I'm setting my alarm for 845 in the morning and my Keurig will be brewing me some tea. I'd love to share but I doubt any will be close enough to partake, so you'll need to brew your own.

Voice Chat will be in the RPG Breakfast Club. No need for a mic if you don't want to talk, but you'll probably want a headset to listen. You'll also want to log into the rpg-breakfast-club text chat channel for auxiliary conversation and any graphical uploads.

If this is well received we'll try to make it a regular feature, so please, drop in and say hello. Your hosts don't bite (but Doug does swing a mean Viking Axe)

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Laramie WallOctober 21, 2018 at 1:15 AM
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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, October 20, 2018

RPG Breakfast Club - Discord - 9 AM Eastern

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