Tenkar's Tavern: OSR Christmas 2024 - Day 5 Gifts Are Being Given!

Monday, December 30, 2024

OSR Christmas 2024 - Day 5 Gifts Are Being Given!

Day 5 of OSR Christmas is being awarded. The gifts are below. If you see your screen name below, email me at tenkarsDOTtavern at that gmail thing. Please put "OSR Christmas Day 5" in the subject. In the body of the email, include the gift that you've been gifted as well as your screen name.

Note - emails for outstanding gifts for OSR Christmas through Day 4 have been responded to. If you haven't received an email from me regarding a gift you are claiming, drop me a new email. Remember, you have 7 days to claim your gift. Afterward, it MAY go back into the gift pile. Tenkar

Gift 1 - Dragonlock Lost Caverns: Master Set FDG0410 ($50.00)

Gift 2 - Frog God Games 50% Off Coupon

Rob F.

Gift 3 - The Dwarven Glory Precis Intermedia

rockmonolit

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

SketchasaurRex

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

Kevin N

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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 5 Gifts Are Being Given!

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