Tenkar's Tavern: OSR Christmas - Day Two

Thursday, December 26, 2019

OSR Christmas - Day Two - Time to Receive Gifts!

Alright, it is time to gift those who are receiving random gifts from Day Two of OSR Christmas
Randomizers in hand, its time to roll some dice!

Today's Gift Pool:

2 - Moon Wizard OSR Patchs by Thad Moore - Starglow & LukeTheGoon

1 - James Mishler Games "One of Everything" in PDF
(19 titles in all) - dogrodeo

From MonkeyBlood / Glynn Seal
1 - The City of Great Lunden hardback plus Map Sets and Pregen

Character Cards (Print - Ships Worldwide) - imredave

1 - HandyMaps Towns & Villages (Print - Ships World Wide) - Brian S

1 - Midderlands PDF - Darcy Perry

1 - The City of Great Lunden PDF - Mathew

Note - FOUR separate gifts from MonkeyBlood

From Genius Loci Games

1 - Pyramid of the Lost King (at cost Print on Demand) - 123
1 - New Class Options (PDF) - DM Misha

From Roan Studios

Full Roan Studio (pdf) collection on Drive Thru RPG (15 titles) - Mike Bauer

From Tenkar's Tavern / The Tavern Chat Podcast

2 - $10 DrivethruRPG Gift Certificates Colin Chapman NZ & GJ

There you have it. If you gift is a PDF / digital / Gift Certificate, we'll need the email you use with DriveThruRPG. If the gift is physical, we need you snail mail / shipping address.

Please email tenkarsDOTtavernATgmailDOTcom by December 31st, 2019 to claim your gift. Put OSR Christmas Gifted in the subject of the email.

There are affiliate links above. Affiliate links keep the lights on and the taps flowing here at The Tavern.

New gift list posted will be posted.tomorrow.

3 comments:

rredmondDecember 26, 2019 at 8:32 PM
Congrats to the winners!!!
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Brian S.December 26, 2019 at 11:00 PM
Thank you for your generous gifts!
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Colin Chapman NZDecember 26, 2019 at 11:33 PM
Wow, can't believe I won! Thanks so much, Erik; DTRPG is my RPG lifeline in Kiwilandia. 😁
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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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