Other D&D Variant Basic Fantasy?

[Rellan]

I’ve been a player a few times and just DMed a one shot for the first time with my friends. It was fun, but I was looking into other resources later for no particular reason and I found Basic Fantasy. I really love the pacing and rules of old-school DND, even though it was a little clunky, so would this be a fun purchase to try and do something with for another one shot?

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

I believe Basic Fantasy is sold for cost in print and free as digital products, so it's a pretty easy purchase, even if just to check it out. Given that it's emulating B/X D&D, that also means it's 99.99% compatible with Old School Essentials, which is also built on B/X and which has a ton of material available.

More broadly, most of the Old School Renaissance material out there, is probably 90%+ compatible with it as well, outside of stuff like Cairn, Errant and Mork Borg, which might have similar vibes, but a different underlying engine. But that still leaves a lot of compatible stuff to pick up, not even counting all of the old TSR material that's available on DMs Guild/DriveThruRPG.

 

[Jahydin]

Basic Fantasy is a great game that I've ran several times. I still have my copy on the shelf, but recently have been occupied with more recent OSR systems. I recommend checking out what's out there and finding the best system for you (especially since most of them are free to download). Here's a link to Drive-Thru RPG's OSR section in case you haven't seen it.