Would ACKS be a good fit to capture the BECMI-feel?

[jdrakeh]

I found it.

Dark Dungeons 4th edition. The 475 PDF is free (the hardcover is over $60 ).

Haha! Beat me to it!

 

[TwoSix]

Not as such, although a character who reaches 0hp or lower is likely to sustain a serious injury (assuming they survive at all) and will often not be combat capable without some long-term rest and recovery, so PCs won't just keep bouncing back to their feet. For related reasons, there is also some incentive to save healing magic for when someone goes down, to try and mitigate the long-term seriousness of their injury.

The only point I'll add is that there is a Medical/Healing proficiency in the game; a character (or hireling, or familiar) with 2 to 3 ranks in the proficiency can provide a LOT of out-of-combat healing, enough to noticeably lower the amount of spell slots consumed by crusaders or other healing classes.

 

[The Soloist]

Haha! Beat me to it!

4e is different from BECMI. The author modernized the underlying 'setting' assumptions and redid the classes. Read the comment section for more details.

Dark Dungeons 3e is what you want if you are looking for something closer to the original.

 

[Jahydin]

4e is different from BECMI. The author modernized the underlying 'setting' assumptions and redid the classes. Read the comment section for more details.

Dark Dungeons 3e is what you want if you are looking for something closer to the original.

Oh cool. Will certainly check it out, thanks!