Basic Fantasy - Anybody here regularly play it? Why yes, why not?

[AlexofBarbaria]

What is a “movement point system”?

Instead of terrain type acting as a multiplier to your wilderness movement rate, like this (from BFRPG):

Characters are given movement points to spend, and terrain types cost different amounts to enter, like this (from the original D&D wilderness adventure supplement, Outdoor Survival):

Much easier to use when traveling through multiple types of terrain in the same day.

I'm not sure why D&D didn't hang on to movement points for handling outdoor travel. There seems to have been a strong reluctance post-OD&D to nail down a default map scale for wilderness adventures, even though that makes them much easier to create and run.

 

[Zardnaar]

Bought a real copy for $5 years ago. Amazon did free postage so yeah.

It's early OSR. I like it a lot but it's a bit to basic. I would rather DM basic globes over modern D&D but finding players is that much harder.

B/X is better than AD&D imho but probably needs to evolve a bit to appeal to modern players vs nostalgia. Thief class comes to mind.

It's also close to a point in time of BECMI dying than we are to BFRPG being released.

I think you could still have fun with it especially if Basic line is your favorite D&D.