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<blockquote data-quote="Gus L" data-source="post: 9412127" data-attributes="member: 7045072">The short answer is that it's very much a BECMI adventure - meaning it can be summed up with the reoccurring BECMI design mantra &quot;The monsters attack until killed&quot; ... more specifically the advice isn't terrible, nor is some of the keying, but what it teaches a new referee strikes me as some basic techniques of &quot;Trad&quot; design.&nbsp; What the &quot;five room dungeon&quot; is to Contemporary Trad Design, something like B11 is to 1980's Trad.&nbsp; Mainly it lacks any real exploration aspect, little opportunity for intrigue/RPing, and the most bland cartoony approach to fantasy.I know it's popular among certain Post-OSR groups who see the goal of play as preserving an idealized version of 1970's - 1980's play unchanged and who presumably find it's lack of creativity, Law v. Chaos ethics, and strict adherence to vernacular fantasy positives, but for me it's one of the worst of the B series.&nbsp; This was my review of it a decade ago:[URL unfurl=&quot;true&quot;]https://dungeonofsigns.blogspot.com/2014/06/b11-kings-festival-review.html[/URL]Today I see it in a more critical light.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Gus L, post: 9412127, member: 7045072"] The short answer is that it's very much a BECMI adventure - meaning it can be summed up with the reoccurring BECMI design mantra "The monsters attack until killed" ... more specifically the advice isn't terrible, nor is some of the keying, but what it teaches a new referee strikes me as some basic techniques of "Trad" design. What the "five room dungeon" is to Contemporary Trad Design, something like B11 is to 1980's Trad. Mainly it lacks any real exploration aspect, little opportunity for intrigue/RPing, and the most bland cartoony approach to fantasy. I know it's popular among certain Post-OSR groups who see the goal of play as preserving an idealized version of 1970's - 1980's play unchanged and who presumably find it's lack of creativity, Law v. Chaos ethics, and strict adherence to vernacular fantasy positives, but for me it's one of the worst of the B series. This was my review of it a decade ago: [URL unfurl="true"]https://dungeonofsigns.blogspot.com/2014/06/b11-kings-festival-review.html[/URL] Today I see it in a more critical light. [/QUOTE]

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