Tenkar's Tavern: Day Two of OSR Christmas

Thursday, December 6, 2018

Day Two of OSR Christmas - Awarding the Gifts

Here we go with awarding the gifts for Day Two of OSR Christmas. Let's see who gets what today:

1) 1 Print Copy of Dragon Heresy (Gaming Ballistic) - US Only -  IS AWARDED to Paulgo

2) 1 Print Bundle of Castle of the Mad Archmage and all the expansions (Level 3 East, Musicland, and Bitterbark's Circus) (BRW Games) US ONLY -  IS AWARDED to Denis McCarthy

3) 1 PDF Copy of The Midderlands from MonkeyBlood - IS AWARDED to Martin Leuschen

4) 1 Bundle of OSR Patches from Thad Moore -  IS AWARDED to Rgrimsley

5) 1 PDF Copy of Class Compendium (James Spahn / Barrel Rider Games) - IS AWARDED to Peter V. Dell'orto

6) 1 PDF Copy of the World War II: Operation WhiteBox adventure "The Argentine Connection" (Stouthearted Games) -  IS AWARDED to Bill Shearer

If your name is above, email me at tenkarsDOTtavern at that gmail thing. Put "OSR Christmas Gift" in the subject. If you are receiving a physical gift I'll need a physical shipping address I can forward on. If the gift is digital, I will need the email you use with DriveThruRPG. Day 3 of OSR Christmas should go up tomorrow :)

I haven't touched emails since the beginning of the week. Busy times in the Tenkar household. Tomorrow is a wreck of a day, but emails should be addressed tomorrow night.

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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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Day Two of OSR Christmas - Awarding the Gifts

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