OSR What's your brand of Basic?

[MNblockhead]

I can enjoy playing any flavor of D&D but have never been tempted to go back to running games or joining a long campaign using any of the original basis rules. Do ODD-inspired games count? You have S&W listed, so I suppose...yes?

If so, I've really enjoyed the Dungeon Crawl Classics games I've played in and have been tempted to buy the rules.

 

[MoonSong]

enjoy playing any flavor of D&D but have never been tempted to go back to running games or joining a long campaign using any of the original basis rules. Do ODD-inspired games count? You have S&W listed, so I suppose...yes?

I wasn't going to include it, but somehow it keeps popping up so I obliged.

 

[Orius]

None of them. I prefer AD&D/3e. I find them useful for old school elements that are covered poorly in my preferred versions, and of the various versions, RC is what I'd likely go with since it compiles Moldvay, Cook, and Mentzer into a single package.

 

[Zardnaar]

Basic Fantasy and ACKs. Also would use the RC but only have it on PDF.

 

[MoonSong]

Basic Fantasy and ACKs. Also would use the RC but only have it on PDF.

It's on PoD. I've been meaning to get it, but I'll need to pony up a good buck for the postage and customs.

 

[Zardnaar]

It's on PoD. I've been meaning to get it, but I'll need to pony up a good buck for the postage and customs.

It's postage and customs here as well. I picked up a pile of stuff in 2004 and Amazon did some free postage some years back so Basic Fantasy was $5 and ACKs was cheap as well.

ACKs with B/W interior was cheap enough to print out as well and bind it.

 

[RogueRonin]

I've used Labyrinth Lord and LotFP and enjoyed them both. I think in the future I'll probably be using Old School Essentials. I've been running Tomb of Annihilation for the past year or so, and when that's done, the next game will be OSE as a test run. If the players like using the books (I expect they will) it'll be the go-to B/X from now on.

 

[Tallifer]

Labyrinth Lord is a very tidy and clear version. My Dungeon Master now runs Westmarches in his own homebrewed version of Moldvay Basic pulling in some Oriental Adventures flavour and a few abilities from other editions.

 

[Lanefan]

Not seeing either DCCRPG or Hackmaster on the list I'll guess you see those as 1e variants rather than 0e/Basic?

There's also something called Adventures Deep and Dark, which hews very close to 1e inmany ways.

 

[MoonSong]

Not seeing either DCCRPG or Hackmaster on the list I'll guess you see those as 1e variants rather than 0e/Basic?

There's also something called Adventures Deep and Dark, which hews very close to 1e inmany ways.

To be honest, I know nothing of DCC, I thought it was more of a board game. Not sure, I totally forgot it existed. Sorry.

And well, this is about flavors of Basic, so AD&D clones and Hackmaster are obviously not invited. n_n