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You find me talking about how great Chris Gonnerman’s Basic Fantasy is all the time and now it’s even more convenient to get your hands on the popular OSR roleplaying line. The game’s releases will soon be available as free PDFs (as you’ve come to expect) but now you can also get the “at cost” print editions at DriveThruRPG. Previously, you could only score print editions by way of Amazon. This is great news and there’s only a few cents difference in pricing for the softcovers. The entire line is on DriveThru yet but they are being added.

About Basic Fantasy:

The Basic Fantasy Role-Playing Game is a rules-light game system written with inspiration from early roleplaying game systems. It is intended for those who are fans of “old-school” game mechanics. Basic Fantasy RPG is simple enough for children in perhaps second or third grade to play, yet still has enough depth for adults as well.

In the almost 50 years since the first role-playing game appeared, much has changed. Most people have at least heard the names of one or two such games, and many, many people have played. Still, there are those who have not tried RPGs; if you are one of those people, this part is for you. Role-playing games are played by a number of players, commonly two to eight, and a Game Master, or GM (often called something else, but the job remains the same regardless of the title). Each player generally plays one character, called a player character or PC, while the Game Master is responsible for running the world, creating and managing the towns, nations, ruins, non-player characters (or NPCs), monsters, treasure, and all other things that aid or challenge the players. Dice are often used to determine the success or failure of most actions that take place in the game; Basic Fantasy RPG uses polyhedral dice for this purpose.

Jeff McAleer

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