Tenkar's Tavern: OSR Christmas 2024 - Day 4

Friday, December 27, 2024

OSR Christmas 2024 - Day 4 - Giving the Gifts!

Here are the Day 4 gifts being given away. If you see your name/screenname below, email me at tenkarsDOTtavern at that Gmail thing with "OSR Christmas Day 4" in the subject. In the body, tell me your screen name and the gift you are claiming. It may take a few days to catch up to all, but I'll be delving into the backlog tomorrow (Saturday, Dec 28). Gifts unclaimed within 7 days will be put back in the mix for others.

Gift 1 - FDG0351 DRAGON TILES: Caverns Core Set ($25.00) Fat Dragon Games - Jeff Bernstein

Gift 2 - Frog God Games 50% Off Coupon

Fun at the Library

Gift 3 - Palace of the Vampire Queen Precis Intermedia

Eliyahu Sandler

Gift 4 - 1 Barrowmaze Patch (ships anywhere in the world) and issues 1-4 of Wizard Funk Zine in PDF - Dicebro

Antonio Baena (include your mailing address with your email)

Gift 5 - $10 DTRPG Gift Certificate - From Your Bartender

ch\/\/olfgang

Gift 6 - $125 worth of Hyperborea PDFs via DTRPG - You Pick! North Wind Adventures

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3 comments:

Ryan—Aqualith MediaDecember 27, 2024 at 10:40 PM
Grats all!
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IkarosDecember 28, 2024 at 1:33 AM
Merry OSR Christmas and happy new year!
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ILDecember 28, 2024 at 7:56 AM
Many thanks!
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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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OSR Christmas 2024 - Day 4 - Giving the Gifts!

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