Tenkar's Tavern Video Network Update January 22nd, 2023
OGL oh My!
Hey! The Tavern Network Substack is back! Between OSR Christmas and the OGL 1.0/1.1/1.2/2.0 fiasco, I’ve been juggling a number of balls. We should be back with once-a-week updates going forward.
Regarding the OGL Fiasco, Kobold Press, Frog God Games, and others have put together an amazingly valued bundle of 5e and OSR content - over 50 titles for 25 bucks - RPG Worlds by Kobold Press and Friends. Note, this is an affiliate link. Purchases made via my link will support the companies involved, Comic Book Legal Defense Fund, and your favorite bartender in the OSR :)
Tenkar’s Tavern - Gaming news, observations, punditry, and more regarding the OSR. Livestreams Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday Nights @ 8 PM Eastern with various cohosts, including other casters on the TVN. You can also find me at TenkarsTavern.com.
This Week’s Video:
There will be no ‘morality clause” in the first draft of ORC
BTW, I’ve spoken highly of The Dread Thingonomicon. Well, now the first 50 pages can be snagged for free as a preview. (note - affiliate link)
Tabletop Taproom - Reviewing Frontier Explorer 8: Yazirian Literature, Cuisine of the Core Four Species, Conversion notes for Star Frontiers to Stars Without Number, a new comic, new equipment, a new alien species, new starships, new Frontier fiction, and more.
Fans crash WotC's D&D Beyond server by canceling en mass. An ironic outcome since D&D Beyond was built on the popularity of the same 3rd party publishing that WotC is trying to kill.
The Frontier Explorer fan magazine is available for free: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/129214/Frontier-Explorer--Issue-8
Greyhawk Grognard - Analysis, reviews, and new material relating to the World of Greyhawk Campaign Setting, tabletop gaming, and the OSR, with occasional forays into pop culture and industry/hobby news. Weekly videos on Thursdays, a Greyhawk-themed adventure hook every Sunday, plus other videos as the mood strikes.
I update my intentions going forward for the YouTube channel, the Patreon, and the blog.
Joethelawyer’s Analog Mancave – Joe is an old bastard who puts out videos on D&D, both old school and new. He’s been playing D&D since 1984. Joe is currently wrapping up a 4 ½ year 5e campaign and is about to start up a long long very long 2e campaign. He’s doing a series of videos on how he’s prepping for it, and the campaign is expected to launch in the next couple of months. No, you won’t ever see these games livestreamed. The lack of dignity and decorum in these games would shock, confuse and horrify anyone under 50.
He sometimes does videos with his brother Mike, called the Joe and Bro Firepit Show, where they talk about the D&D games they each play and run, while sitting in his brother’s backyard around his firepit. Roscoe the dog, known as “Squirrelbane” to his enemies, sometimes visits while they yammer on. There’s usually much alcohol and other semi-legal things consumed during these shows, so they aren’t for the faint of heart. Often, they aren’t even coherent or comprehensible. He does unboxings, product reviews—both new and retro, and plans on reading all the books in Gary’s Appendix N soon. God knows he has enough books…he may as well put them to use.
This week’s video:
Lots of people are talking about the OGL and how it affects the industry players. In this video, I talk about how it affects the regular average gamer...you and I.
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Eldrad Wolfsbane (The unofficial Wizard of the OSR) talks about how we gamed back in the 80s and early 90s.
GP Adventures – That Guy With The French Accent: Ben Poire is a veteran gamer who has been playing and running tabletop RPGs since the 1980s, posting in gaming circles online since the early 2000s, and designed his first module with the Hyperborean Laboratories of AFS Magazine #3. He partnered with Ernest G. Gygax Jr. for the cartography, design and writing of the Marmoreal Tomb Campaign Starter with Troll Lord Games. He is working on the larger Hobby Shop Dungeon project set in the the World around the Duinnsmere along with the Tomb.
Ben likes to create informative videos about the Old School, open-ended sanbox play style, mine and develop the published material of GP for their users, talk alone or with guests about the hobby, the games, play styles, pop culture, and various topics relevant to tabletop gamers including terrain and miniatures, cartography, logistics of gaming, as well as the occasional review or trailer reaction, because why not.
Where Ben discusses the content of one of Erik Tenkar's earlier videos, talks about how he started playing AD&D way back when, and how he wants to enjoy both the old TSR games and the modern OSR variants for what they are now to him as a 40-something gamer, rather than relive the “good old days” when he ran games for his 11-year-old friends and relatives.
Facebook: /bpoire Twitter: @BenoistPoire. Instagram: @benoistpoire
Matt Jackson’s Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/mattjackson
Latest Video:
Episode 8 - In which we discover what has been happening back in Willowford and determine what our band of heroes’ next adventure will be.
Glen Hallstrom’s Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/GlenHallstrom