Tenkar's Tavern: OSR Christmas 2024 - Days 9 & 10

Wednesday, January 15, 2025

OSR Christmas 2024 - Days 9 & 10 - Gifts and More Gifts!

Alright! I'll be at PAGE 2 tomorrow through Sunday morning. If you will be there, please track me down and shake my hand :)

In the meantime, it's time to put up the gifts for OSR Christmas Days 9 & 10. More gifts are more better! Comment below before 6 PM, Sunday, January 20th, to be considered for a gift!

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

Gift 2 - Dragonlock Lost City of the Dwarves: Master Set FDG0411 ($25.00)

Gift 3 - Frog God Games 50% off Coupon

Gift 4 - A 2nd Frog God Games 50% off Coupon

Gift 5 - What Price Glory

Gift 6 - Worlds Beyond

Gift 7 - $10 DTRPG Gift Cert

Gift 8 - Another $10 DTRPG Gift Cert

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5 comments:

Jeff BernsteinJanuary 15, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Merry OSR Christmas!
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Brian S.January 15, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Let's go!
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Baron GreystoneJanuary 15, 2025 at 11:01 PM
The secret of Christmas is that it's all year through!
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Kevin NJanuary 16, 2025 at 12:07 AM
Merry Christmas!
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Mike BauerJanuary 16, 2025 at 12:21 AM
OSRmas lasts a month! Wow! Merry OSRmas! :D
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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 - Days 9 & 10 - Gifts and More Gifts!

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