Tenkar's Tavern: OSR Christmas 2025 Day 2

Tuesday, December 17, 2024

OSR Christmas 2025 Day 2 - Gifts for Thee!

Hail and well-met! OSR Christmas continues below!

To be eligible to be gifted for Day 2 of OSR Christmas, you must comment below - anything qualifies so long as it's in the Holiday spirit. Comments must be posted by Thursday, December 19th, at 8 PM ET. Gifts will be randomly gifted from a list of those who correctly commented. Gifts will be gifted Monday evening, and the next set of gifts will be posted, so check back frequently.

Gift 1 - Dragonlock Lost City of the Dwarves: Master Set FDG0411 ($25.00)

Gift 2 - Frog God Games 50% Off Coupon

Gift 3 - The New Adventures Dark and Deep Core Rulebook and Core Bestiary in pdf from BRW Games

Gift 4 - $10 DTRPG Gift Certificate

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19 comments:

DungeonMapperDecember 17, 2024 at 7:44 PM
I love Joseph Bloch's Greyhawk gronard and I am excited for OSR Christmas- Merry Yuletide folks
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Ryan—Aqualith MediaDecember 17, 2024 at 8:19 PM
I hope to catch up on reading plenty of gaming goodness over Christmas this next week! Thank you for putting this on.
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Kevin NDecember 17, 2024 at 8:30 PM
Merry Christmas everyone!
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Jeff BernsteinDecember 17, 2024 at 10:03 PM
Merry OSR Christmas to all!
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The 88thWarriorDecember 17, 2024 at 11:54 PM
Long time lurker first time poster. Merry Christmas!
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ConnwulfDecember 18, 2024 at 1:11 AM
Merry Christmas to the OSR and friends.
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RhinoDino1973December 18, 2024 at 4:00 AM
Merry OSR to All!
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ch\/\/olfgangDecember 18, 2024 at 9:07 AM
Lets GOOO! Good stuff here. Best wishes to all.
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ShadowStalkerDecember 18, 2024 at 9:48 AM
Here we go again
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AnthonyDecember 18, 2024 at 10:24 AM
May all your rolls be nat 20s. Merry Xmas!
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rockmonolitDecember 18, 2024 at 11:26 AM
May your dice be true and your treasures plenty - Merry Christmas, adventurers!
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Jim YoderDecember 18, 2024 at 3:27 PM
Feliz Navidad!! And all that jazz
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macloudDecember 18, 2024 at 6:36 PM
Ding dong merrily on high,
A prize I hope om winning
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Rob Banks!December 18, 2024 at 7:32 PM
Merry OSR Christmas everybody!
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Antonio BaenaDecember 19, 2024 at 2:44 AM
Merry OSR Christmas to all, and that your dice roll 20 every time!
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Nathand ChristensonDecember 19, 2024 at 10:09 AM
May the snow fall on sledding hills and lawns, but not your drive or sidewalk where you would need to shovel!!
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imredaveDecember 19, 2024 at 10:56 AM
Put my hat in the ring
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djfactDecember 19, 2024 at 12:04 PM
Merry OSR Christmas everyone!
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HyrieusDecember 19, 2024 at 2:57 PM
Yuletide greetings to the OSR
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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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