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We found 9 Reddit comments about Basic Fantasy Role-Playing Game 3rd Edition. Here are the top ones, ranked by their Reddit score.
First, a giant list with links.
OSR Games
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Retro Clones
All of these have complete free versions on their websites(usually minus art)
New Stuff
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My personal favorites are Stars without Number, Godbound, Lamentations of the flame princess, and Shadow of the Demon Lord.
In no particular order:
You can't go wrong with any of them, but gun to my head, I'd say look into Mouse Guard or Dungeon World.
Mouse Guard
Mouse Guard...is just down right fun. While combat is certainly part of the game, it's got a heavy emphasis on problem solving in encounters over straight up murderhobo-ing your way through the game. It's my go to game for one shots. Perfect for when you need a break in the middle of a long campaign in another system, or if just not enough people show up for a session in your primary campaign. Not that you couldn't run a long campaign in Mouse Guard, that'd be rad.
Dungeon World
Dungeon World is also another great game for one shots, IMHO. Need to work on your improv? Play Dungeon World. It's a very narrative driven game that heavily encourages collaborative world building with your players. Additionally, if you discard all of the rules on classes and combat, the rest of the system is an amazing compliment to any other game system you want to run. It's GMing section is honestly the missing manual for D&D or any other system you want to run. And hell, Fronts are a great way to organize an adventure or long campaign.
Edit: A few other options that came to mind
I've sent game books to a friend in a Federal prison.
The books must come directly from a publisher or bookstore. I can't ship him anything from my home. Dice are not allowed. They use homemade chits.
No boxes or anything other than books are allowed. The guards open everything before the inmate receives it and they won't separate stuff that isn't okay from stuff that is okay, so for example if a book comes in a boxed set with a map, the whole thing will be rejected.
Everything must arrive via USPS, so you have to do a little trick to get something from Amazon delivered (Amazon doesn't allow you to specify a shipper) - you list the address as a PO box even though it isn't, then in the second line of the address put the real address (along with the required facility information.) Amazon's delivery system sees it as a PO box, so ships it USPS. The mail carrier sees it as a real address and it gets there. If it doesn't you really can't complain since it's a funny little address hack.
There is technically a limit on the number of personal books inmates at his facility may have - I think it is 10 books and 10 magazines. That isn't usually enforced he said, but when a guard is angry for any reason, it is selectively enforced.
He is at a large facility and knows of at least five or six groups that play. OSR games and 3rd edition D&D are what everyone plays. He theorizes that 4th edition never caught on for some reason and 5th edition hasn't made an impact because people like to play what they played outside.
If anyone knows a gamer in a prison with an OSR bent Basic Fantasy Role-Playing is a great deal from Amazon because it is a clone of old school D&D, it's a complete game in one volume, and it's low cost (low enough to send them multiple copies over time so they have "loaner" books to play with).
Basic Fantasy Rulebook
The Chaotic Caverns
A cheap set of dice
That should run you about $15, and it's enough for a few months of fun sessions.
Basic Fantasy Role-Playing Game 3rd Edition https://www.amazon.com/dp/1503334945/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_Je0iDbPTCYHTX
https://www.amazon.com/dp/952590444X/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_awdb_t1_FGVXCbMRF6WTN is the physical book, though if you can get your LFGS to order it, that's always recommended.
If you're looking to go cheap, Basic Fantasy RPG is a a great option. It's available free in PDF form and dead tree copies are on Amazon. For $20 you can get the core rules and at least a year worth of adventures and campaign stuff: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1503334945/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_awdb_t1_DIVXCbCSGRPAT
Rad Hack is a great post-apocalyptic rpg for super cheap.
For a solid old school tabletop experience, I would also highly recommend Basic Fantasy RPG . It’s five bucks for a good sized rule book.
There are several good ones on DriveThruRPG as well.
Hi there underneaththestars9!
2nd grade is a great time to get a kid interested in RPGs. Although disclaimer: I haven't ran for kids myself (I have run some solo games, though) - If I were to do so though, I personally wouldn't use D&D 5e for it. As streamlined as it is, it's still pretty darn complicated - especially for a youngin'
Instead, perhaps consider something like Basic Fantasy (They also give their PDFs away for free). It's super easy to learn and run - it's based on the Basic D&D set from back in the day, so most of it is very identifiably D&D - even if you've only played newer versions. Perfect place for a new adventurer to start out!
As for the campaign itself, I'm guessing it's gonna be just her? If so: make the game all about her. Ask her what sorta theme she'd like and pander to whatever kind of game she wants. Essentially find out the kind of character she wants to play and build a game based around the sorts of things that character would get into.
Also, maybe for inspiration read up on kids' fantasy. The Hobbit, Narnia, that sort of thing. Obviously some aspect of those works tick with young readers - whether it's the fantastical whimsy, the way they narrate events, etc.
I'd recommend taking a look at Basic Fantasy Roleplay. The rules are based on D&D. They're free and complete (and very cheap if you just really want a paper copy) but more importantly for your players - they're short.
There are free adventures to download and you can also use the system to play older D&D modules from the DM's Guild.
As for extras - a nice luxury item I use all the time is a sleeved GM screen. I can pop in screens from PDFs of whatever system I want to run. If you do individual initiative, I'd grab a pack of index cards you can chop in half and tent them over your screen in order with each character's name, AC, class, perception score, that sort of thing.