The Tavern Network Update for 12/4/22

Dec 04, 2022

I appreciate your patience. Due to a death in the family, there was no newsletter last week.

Not every channel updates on a weekly basis. If there are no updates, the prior entry will remain.

It’s going to take a while for us to start hitting our stride and the format may change as we work out the kinks, but here we go.

Tenkar’s Tavern - Gaming news, observations, punditry, and more regarding the OSR. Livestreams Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday Nights with various cohosts, including other casters on the TVN. You can also find me at TenkarsTavern.com.

This Week’s Video:

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)

So, a little bit of real-life intruding into my gaming, kinda like peanut butter in your chocolate. Don't wait for the campaign to start to tell your DM that their house rules are wrong...

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.

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 discuss the various types of spells in AD&D, and their application.

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:

DM Advice: Setting Player Expectations for Your Old School Style OSR D&D Campaign for 5e Players

In this video, I give DM's some advice on how to set their 5e players’ expectations for an OSR campaign. It's a big expansion on some points I made in my prior video on helping 5e players adjust to the old-school style game. Setting expectations is a very important part of the process, and it deserves a more thorough discussion. Email: analogmancave@gmail.com

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Webpage: www.analogmancave.com

Eldrad Wolfsbane

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

The Tavern Network Update for 12/4/22

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