Re: Basic Fantasy Role-Playing (Freebie d20 Basic D&D clone)

Posted by Solomoriah on Jun 12, 2010; 3:24am
URL: http://the-lost-and-the-damned.71.s1.nabble.com/Basic-Fantasy-Role-Playing-Freebie-d20-Basic-D-D-clone-tp4044886p5170628.html

Billiam Babble wrote

Rereading the post, I think I should have typed "brief" as opposed to "vague".  It is my understanding of mixed classes which is vague, not the description.
AD&D (1st ed) lost me around the appendices, Bards, Multi-class and Psionics, some sort of prejudice seems to kick in, so my brain naturally blocks out the very notion of dividing up experience points between different class levels for one character.

Which is why Basic Fantasy RPG doesn't do it that way. Instead, XP required is added together for the two classes.

Billiam Babble wrote

I don't have my printed copy of the BFRPG to hand but I think I would have needed more explicit examples (I used to be a Red Box D&Der - I'm used to everything being spelled out), but the work as a whole certainly does not suffer for the lack of it. My intention was to highlight the fact that you had a different approach to races and class to the 80's boxed D&D systems, but it seems to have come out as a criticism - my apologies and formal retractions.

S'awright.

Billiam Babble wrote

I was so pleased to discover these types of rules in a modern context with an on-line following and so many supplements that I bought a copy for myself and one for a friend.  This allowed to me check out both types of softcover binding on Lulu.  As a gift, the normal spine binding was perfect, and for myself the spiral binding was great for thumbing through and not having to worry about broken spines or bent pages.  My friend was especially intrigued because he'd just moved house and all of his old games were still in his parents' loft.

I'm glad you like it.  I have a coilbound copy of 1st Edition and a hardback of each of 1st and 2nd edition.  I like the hardback better, but between the coilbound and the perfect bound I'd choose the coily every time.

Billiam Babble wrote

I believe fans would forgive you if you ever planned to put the price up by a few cents on the hard copies just to keep you in stationery and web space rental.  After all, a professionally printed copy is a sort of well bound artefact.  However, I can see that an ensemble effort as with the art could cause complex royalty problems.

I have permission from those who contributed to make a small amount per book... I just haven't needed to.  My business operates the website (I'm the owner, to be clear) as part of a multi-site account, so the cost is effectively nil.  I pay about ten bucks a year for the domain name, and that's it.

Billiam Babble wrote

Congratulations upon such a successful project!  
I believe that you are being way too modest ... especially since you're bringing a lot of  fun for many people via accessible role playing, and with it a huge nostalgia kick for guys like me.

Thanks.  Tell me, are you a member of either the Dragonsfoot or Basic Fantasy forums?  We always like to see fans of the game on the forums.

Billiam Babble wrote

Quick query (you probably get asked this quite a bit)  at which party level would you believe that BFRP provides the best playing experience in terms of overall gaming satisfaction?

Can't answer that.  Honestly don't know... most of my experience with the game is at low levels, and it works fine there.