The Tavern Network Newsletter for the Week Ending March 4th, 2023
Another hiccup
Yep, we went MIA again. Lots of balls
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:
A court case in the Superior Court of California, Count of Los Angeles, between Zachary Smith and Vivka Grey, was decided on July 5th, 2022 - over 7 months ago. To be honest, I never knew it had been filed, let alone decided on. I guess that's how far Zak S has dropped off my radar. Recently, Zak S posted a video on youtube detailing his court victory. Even more recently, two threads popped up on the OSR subreddit, announcing a Zak S reprint of Red and Pleasant Lands as well as Zak's collaboration on the setting created by an as yet unknown. Go figure. Link to the Zak S/Vivka Grey Court Decision PDF: https://www.dropbox.com/s/r73qi0xs7z4... Links to the announcements on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/TheOSR/comme... https://www.reddit.com/r/TheOSR/comme...
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.
Rediscovering AD&D 1e: Henchmen
Gygax's reasons for employing henchmen seem to be an endorsement of player-against-player action in AD&D.
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 try to give a high-level overview of the World of Greyhawk Fantasy Setting in under fifteen minutes! 0:00 What's today's video about? 0:40 Geography 4:15 The Timeline 7:57 Themes 12:47 Thanks Want more Greyhawk and OSR content? Check out the links below. Free downloads on the blog! Blog:
http://www.greyhawkgrognard.com
Store: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/browse/p... Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/Greyhawk_Grog...
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:
I ran my fourth One-on-One adventure in the new 2e campaign. I recorded this in two parts. The first was before the game, and I talked about how I prepped and what I thought might happen. The second was after, and I talked about how it went. Then I spliced them together. Check out Vance's Blog:
https://leicestersramble.blogspot.com/
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Eldrad Wolfsbane (The unofficial Wizard of the OSR) talks about how we gamed back in the 80s and early 90s.
Morality Clauses and Cancel Cultures over them in the RPG Industry? Who's Morality?
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.
My thoughts and reaction after the OGL debacle initiated by Wizards of the Coast and the consumer revolt that followed against it. What I think about the company, the state of the hobby and my own endeavors going forward with the World of the Duinnsmere and the OSR.
Glen Halstrom / Ol’ Man Grognard
review the Megadungeon Monster Manual by Greg Gillespie. Link: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product_...