Tenkar's Tavern: Updated With More Gifts! OSR Christmas 2024!

Tuesday, December 10, 2024

Updated With More Gifts! OSR Christmas 2024!

Update - We have two more publishers in the mix - North Wind Adventures & BRW!

I'm still gathering some info from some last-minute gifters. OSR Christmas will run from December 14th, 2024, through January 6th, 2025, give or take. Restream has yet to have a giveaway tool like Streamyard, so the giveaways will be here on the blog side, AS WELL AS The Tavern's Substack.

So far, the gifters include:

North Wind Adventures / Hyperborea

$125 worth of Hyperborea PDFs via DTRPG - You Pick!

BRW Games

The New Adventures Dark and Deep Core Rulebook and Core Bestiary in pdf.

(Not even been released to the public yet)

Fat Dragon Games (3 sets of each = 12 Days)

Dragonlock Lost Caverns: Master Set FDG0410 ($50.00)

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

FDG0349 DRAGON TILES: Dungeon Core Set ($25.00)

FDG0351 DRAGON TILES: Caverns Core Set ($25.00)

Frog God Games

Frog God Games 50% off Coupon (one for each day - 12 Days)

$200 Frog God Games Store Credit (x1)

OSR Holiday Bundle in PDF includes: (x2)

How Orcus Stole Christmas
Orcus on 34th Level
Orcus in a Winter Wonderland
Beware of the Yule Cat
The 12 Days of Orcus

Tenkar's Tavern

1 x $50 DTRPG Gift Certificate

12x$10 DTRPG Gift Certificates

If you wish to join in on the gifting fun, email me at tenkarsDOTtavern at that Gmail thing with "OSR Christmas Gift Giving" in the subject ;)

2 comments:

Ryan—Aqualith MediaDecember 10, 2024 at 9:58 PM
Looking forward to it!
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Mike BauerDecember 11, 2024 at 12:45 AM
Nice to see this is happening again!
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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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Updated With More Gifts! OSR Christmas 2024!

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