Re: Basic Fantasy Role-Playing (Freebie d20 Basic D&D clone)
Posted by Billiam Babble on Dec 13, 2009; 2:37pm
URL: http://the-lost-and-the-damned.71.s1.nabble.com/Basic-Fantasy-Role-Playing-Freebie-d20-Basic-D-D-clone-tp4044886p4159768.html
It's strange. I'm not sure what's behind most of these publications, apart from open licensing and nostalgia - certainly not profit. But surely people don't play whole campaigns with a free system when they have lavish modern (or old) rulebooks on their shelves? I downloaded a Runquest SRD a while back.
I'm still amazed by the power of the internet to resurrect past loves - DOS abandon-ware, rpgs, children's TV, chocolate bars!
I've been reading the BFRG rules a bit more closely - again, they have a simplicity and "completeness", and when rules are not present I believe it would acceptable to use the D&D red and blue books as a source, and after that the AD&D books. Incidentally, despite my dismissing of druids and bards there's a few bonus class based supplements (which seem to be inspired by AD&D and AD&D 2nd).
Also, one difference that I am found in the BFRPG of is that you can be a Halfling Thief! Class and race are separate in BFRG like in AD&D with some limits upon which class they can be. There's also a vague example "combination class" of fighter/magic-user available to the Elf which ties in neatly with Basic D&D. I think one of the differences between "Original" D&D and the Basic/Expert sets was that races were separate from class, and much scorn is still held amongst OD&Ders for the Basic system.
-I've never even seen a white box OD&D set (I've seen photos, but you know what I mean, and I have never met anyone in the UK with rules which precede the 1978 "Holmes" edition) But I'm digressing into D&D collector mythos. Suffice to say, there are forums where fans of truly ancient rules still argue the validity of loyalty different boxes and bindings. These are strange times! Oddly reassuring, though.
In my head I try to merge the solo mechanics of WH-Quest with Basic D&D... it's an ongoing obsession.
Just for Mortis - who has been recently betrayed by those whores at Fantasy Flight games - "O"WFRP, anyone?
URL: http://the-lost-and-the-damned.71.s1.nabble.com/Basic-Fantasy-Role-Playing-Freebie-d20-Basic-D-D-clone-tp4044886p4159768.html
It's strange. I'm not sure what's behind most of these publications, apart from open licensing and nostalgia - certainly not profit. But surely people don't play whole campaigns with a free system when they have lavish modern (or old) rulebooks on their shelves? I downloaded a Runquest SRD a while back.
I'm still amazed by the power of the internet to resurrect past loves - DOS abandon-ware, rpgs, children's TV, chocolate bars!
I've been reading the BFRG rules a bit more closely - again, they have a simplicity and "completeness", and when rules are not present I believe it would acceptable to use the D&D red and blue books as a source, and after that the AD&D books. Incidentally, despite my dismissing of druids and bards there's a few bonus class based supplements (which seem to be inspired by AD&D and AD&D 2nd).
Also, one difference that I am found in the BFRPG of is that you can be a Halfling Thief! Class and race are separate in BFRG like in AD&D with some limits upon which class they can be. There's also a vague example "combination class" of fighter/magic-user available to the Elf which ties in neatly with Basic D&D. I think one of the differences between "Original" D&D and the Basic/Expert sets was that races were separate from class, and much scorn is still held amongst OD&Ders for the Basic system.
-I've never even seen a white box OD&D set (I've seen photos, but you know what I mean, and I have never met anyone in the UK with rules which precede the 1978 "Holmes" edition) But I'm digressing into D&D collector mythos. Suffice to say, there are forums where fans of truly ancient rules still argue the validity of loyalty different boxes and bindings. These are strange times! Oddly reassuring, though.
In my head I try to merge the solo mechanics of WH-Quest with Basic D&D... it's an ongoing obsession.
Just for Mortis - who has been recently betrayed by those whores at Fantasy Flight games - "O"WFRP, anyone?
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