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<blockquote data-quote="cavalier973" data-source="post: 7946872" data-attributes="member: 91595">BECMI has a couple of elements that edge it in front of B/X for me:1. Magic Users and Elves get the &quot;Read Magic&quot; spell, plus one other, instead of just one spell at first level.2. Magic items are better explained in BECMI. The Elven Cloak, for example, is listed in B/X, but it isnt clear how it works in terms of game mechanics.EDIT: it was the Elven Boots I was thinking of, and B/X explains it fine. The boots guarantee that the wearer moves silently. In BECMI, the boots give the wearer a 9-in-10 chance of moving silently, so, point for B/X.I like how B/X handles magic scrolls better, though: Magic users can't scribe a spell into their book from a scroll. It's not specifically forbidden, it just isn't mentioned as an option. Also, in B/X, magic users only know a number of spells equal to how many they can cast. A 1st level MU can cast one spell, and so can only know one spell. In BECMI, an MU can scribe extra spells into his book.BECMI also has an array of stats for characters, if the DM wants to allow that instead of rolling for scores: 17, 16, 14, 11, 9, 8 for human classes, and 16, 14, 11, 9, 9, 7 for demi-humans. This is from the sample characters in the middle of the player's book, which all have the same numbers placed in different stats.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="cavalier973, post: 7946872, member: 91595"] BECMI has a couple of elements that edge it in front of B/X for me: 1. Magic Users and Elves get the "Read Magic" spell, plus one other, instead of just one spell at first level. 2. Magic items are better explained in BECMI. The Elven Cloak, for example, is listed in B/X, but it isnt clear how it works in terms of game mechanics. EDIT: it was the Elven Boots I was thinking of, and B/X explains it fine. The boots guarantee that the wearer moves silently. In BECMI, the boots give the wearer a 9-in-10 chance of moving silently, so, point for B/X. I like how B/X handles magic scrolls better, though: Magic users can't scribe a spell into their book from a scroll. It's not specifically forbidden, it just isn't mentioned as an option. Also, in B/X, magic users only know a number of spells equal to how many they can cast. A 1st level MU can cast one spell, and so can only know one spell. In BECMI, an MU can scribe extra spells into his book. BECMI also has an array of stats for characters, if the DM wants to allow that instead of rolling for scores: 17, 16, 14, 11, 9, 8 for human classes, and 16, 14, 11, 9, 9, 7 for demi-humans. This is from the sample characters in the middle of the player's book, which all have the same numbers placed in different stats. [/QUOTE]

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