Tenkar's Tavern: OSR Christmas - Gifting the Gifts for "Christmas Day is for Arduin and Monkey Blood!" - Day 7

Thursday, December 28, 2023

OSR Christmas - Gifting the Gifts for "Christmas Day is for Arduin and Monkey Blood!" - Day 7

Welcome to Day 7 of OSR Christmas for 2023, awarding of the gifts. Note that Day 8 of OSR Christmas was on the Talking Crit Livestream, on Wednesday Night @ 8 PM Eastern, December 27th, 2023. Day 9 will be here, on the blog, tomorrow, December 29th, 2023.

If your name is found below one of the following gifts, you are receiving that gift. Email me at tenkarsDOTtavern at that gmail thing. PLEASE include "OSR Christmas Day 7" in the subject, and please mention the gift you are receiving in the body of the email. This makes it easier for me to match up everything.

Note - if you are awaiting a gift from Day 6 of OSR Christmas or earlier, email me, with "OSR Christmas Day X", where X= the day in question, and mention the gift you are waiting on in the body of the email.

From MonkeyBlood:

1x The Cartomancer 2 Bundle (physical boxed set containing all three HandyMaps content) delivered anywhere in the world for free. https://monkeyblooddesign.co.uk/product/bundle-handymaps-the-cartomancer-2/

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From Emperors' Choice:

• An Arduin Bundle with the hardcover trilogy 1-3, all the grimoires 4 - 9, and Vaults of the Weaver, which has 7 Dungeons in It. All printed material worth $155.00 bundle for Christmas Day! (Note - US Only)

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From DiceBro:

Pen, Dice & Paper

• PDF Bundle of issues1-3 of Wizard Funk, an OSR zine

Thraxis & AEIOU

• OSR Stickers and Barrowmaze patches to give away (1 US/1 Int)

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From On the Tabletop:

• Softcover copy of Holmes & Clark (OSR Ruleset) (US Only)

• PDF copy of Holmes & Clark, along with digital goodies

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From James Mishler Games:

• Set of 12 PDFs (by my count) of James Mishler releases for Shadowdark as well as the Isle of Eldisor for Labyrinth Lord in PDF

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From Tenkar's Tavern:

Lando_The_Archmagi

$10 DTRPG Gift Certificate

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2 comments:

ILDecember 29, 2023 at 2:59 PM
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Ryan—Aqualith MediaDecember 31, 2023 at 1:20 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 ;)