Basic Fantasy Role Playing Appreciation
Tenkar of Tenkar's Tavern recently suggested that fans of Basic Fantasy Role-Playing Game should set aside January 31st as "Basic Fantasy Role-Playing Appreciation Day." I'm a big fan of BFRPG, and I can why in one sentence: Basic Fantasy Role-Playing Game combines the ethos of Old School Dungeons & Dragons without the slavish devotion to antiquated and unhelpful rules, and its free. Retro-clones of D&D often fall along a certain spectrum in terms of where in the D&D chronology they are attempting to emulate. BFRPG falls somewhere between "Basic/Expert" and "1st Ed. AD&D" but also goes ahead and ditches things like descending Armor Class that regardless of how you might bend over backwards to justify, is counter-intuitive to most people. What does it have? Four races (human, elf, dwarf, and halfling) and four classes (fighter, magic-user, thief, and cleric). It has the standard battery of D&D monsters and spell...