Tenkar's Tavern: OSR Christmas 2024 - Awarding the Gifts for Days 7 & 8

Monday, January 13, 2025

OSR Christmas 2024 - Awarding the Gifts for Days 7 & 8

Yep, this is overdue. The past week has been - challenging. Challenge accepted! In the meantime, let's award the gifts for OSR Christmas 2024 Days 7 & 8. If you see your name/handle down below, please email: tenkarsDOTtavern at that gmail thing, use "OSR Christmas Days 7&8" in the subject, and in the body of the email, include your real name, your "google" name below, and the gift you are claiming.

NOTE: outstanding OSR Christmas emails will be addressed tonight and tomorrow - I appreciate the patience - Tenkar

Days 9 & 10 will go up tomorrow...

FDG0349 DRAGON TILES: Dungeon Core Set ($25.00) Brian S.

FDG0351 DRAGON TILES: Caverns Core Set ($25.00) Jeff Bernstein,

Frog God Games 50% off Coupon X TWO! RhinoDino1973, FallenAngel

Sir Pellinore's Game PDF Nathand Christenson

Castle Perilous PDF Mike Bauer

$10 DTTRPG Gift Cert X TWO! Rob F. & David T. (via Discord)

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FallenAngelJanuary 14, 2025 at 4:03 AM
Hey, I won one of the Frog God Games 50% off Coupons and would like to put that back into the drawing. Wouldn't be making use of that one so I'd rather it go to someone who will. Cheers =)
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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 - Awarding the Gifts for Days 7 & 8

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