Some good things in my mail this week! Up first the new Swords & Wizardry books from their most recent Kickstarter. The books are top n...

 For this I am going back to the dawn of the OSR to pick Basic Fantasy . In truth Basic Fantasy can work for any "Well Supported" ...

 When it gets right down to it, you can't get more basic than Basic D&D. Like many of the RPGs I am going to talk about this month, ...

 I don't think this one is even a contest. That would be Basic-era D&D.  What treasures in such a small box! The Moldvay Bas...

I have been on a mini vacation to see my wife's family. They all moved down south. Personally, I dislike going south of Joliet, IL but t...

 Today's adventure is the eagerly anticipated adventure from The Danger Forge. If you have been on Facebook in any of the old-school gro...

 Been rather busy this week, but this one came across my feed, and I thought it was interesting. I love the Known World , also known as Myst...

 This has been a favorite feature of my A to Z posts over the years, with two of my earliest A to Z posts covering the same topic. 2011: R ...

 I have an inordinate amount of Queens in my games. I am going to talk about two groups in particular, the Vampire Queens and the Witch Quee...

 Today I am going to talk about the Known World, or the campaign setting implied in Basic D&D. When the D&D Expert Set was intro...

 It has often been said that all you really need to enjoy Dungeons & Dragons is some rules, dice, paper, pencil, friends, and Imaginatio...

 There are a lot of "E"s I could have gone with today. Epic. Encounter. Heck, even Eclipse and how it relates to D&D. But ther...

Yesterday I talked about the Advanced Dungeons & Dragons game.  Today I want to take a step back and talk about the Basic D&D game....