OSR What's your brand of Basic?
atanakar
Hero
Sorry none. I tried going back to B/X and Holmes last year but I just can't.
A stripped down version of D&D5e using the optional rules of the DMG is my preference: No feat, no multi-classing, no skills, gritty healing. Using only the fighter, the rogue, the cleric and the wizard. Elves, dwarves, halflings and humans.
A stripped down version of D&D5e using the optional rules of the DMG is my preference: No feat, no multi-classing, no skills, gritty healing. Using only the fighter, the rogue, the cleric and the wizard. Elves, dwarves, halflings and humans.
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HarbingerX
Rob Of The North
S&W is my favourite, but I've played the most with LL.
I adore Old School Essentials (which is essentially the B/X rules) but I wouldn't use B/X because OSE is just so much more cleaned up.
However while I haven't played it I'm also interested in BECMI since it is largely compatible with B/X but has the Companion, Master and Iimmortals sets as well if you wanna go farther.
Plus B/X lacks iconic D&D creatures like mind-flayers and even beholders I think. But I know there is BECMI splatbook that is a monster book bringing over a lot of the AD&D monsters that didn't make basic.
However while I haven't played it I'm also interested in BECMI since it is largely compatible with B/X but has the Companion, Master and Iimmortals sets as well if you wanna go farther.
Plus B/X lacks iconic D&D creatures like mind-flayers and even beholders I think. But I know there is BECMI splatbook that is a monster book bringing over a lot of the AD&D monsters that didn't make basic.
Rules Cyclopedia for me.... but I haven't really drilled down to understand the differences between it, Dark Dungeons, and Labyrinth Lord.
Theo R Cwithin
I cast "Baconstorm!"
I don't actively play Basic at the moment and haven't in many years, so I didn't vote*.
But the question reminds me that when I was a kid, I learned D&D using the "B" from BECMI and the "X" from B/X. I didn't know the difference, and whatever difference there was didn't really make a difference.
* But if I did-- and I'd very much like to again-- I'd likely use my Rules Cyclopedia or else get Old School Essentials, because that looks so beautifully put together. I've also considered Microlite '81, or an even more stripped-down ultralite like Searchers of the Unknown (which isn't actually capital-B Basic, but is certainly little-b basic).
But the question reminds me that when I was a kid, I learned D&D using the "B" from BECMI and the "X" from B/X. I didn't know the difference, and whatever difference there was didn't really make a difference.
* But if I did-- and I'd very much like to again-- I'd likely use my Rules Cyclopedia or else get Old School Essentials, because that looks so beautifully put together. I've also considered Microlite '81, or an even more stripped-down ultralite like Searchers of the Unknown (which isn't actually capital-B Basic, but is certainly little-b basic).
ccs
41st lv DM
Were I going to do anything with "Basic" I'd pull my B/X (Moldvey), Companion, & Master, books off the shelf.
Although anything past B/X really wouldn't be needed as everyone would grow bored with the limitations of the system by about 4th lv. & the game would shift to 1e or 5e, or something.
Although anything past B/X really wouldn't be needed as everyone would grow bored with the limitations of the system by about 4th lv. & the game would shift to 1e or 5e, or something.
Tales and Chronicles
Jewel of the North, formerly know as vincegetorix
OSE is great. And LotFP is fun, the the sheer edgyness of it is sometimes aggravating. In fact, that my problem with many over the top ''weird'' OSR products. (I still own Veins of the Earth and I'm on the fence about getting Maze of the Blue Medusa due to ZS)
If the poll had more ''far-removed from Basic'' options, my vote would go Beyond the Wall and the Black Hack 2nd.
If the poll had more ''far-removed from Basic'' options, my vote would go Beyond the Wall and the Black Hack 2nd.
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