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BECMI is Old School
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Is it?

Whenever I see BECMI

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I invariably think BESM

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I actually owned Immortal first and then Basic and Expert. I never played them having started out on OAD&D in maybe 78? 79? My understanding is my older brother and his friends started playing OD&D with some poor photocopies that were missing pages, so they made a lot up. In retrospect and considering their poor memories, I suspect it might have been Holmes. When AD&D came out, it was their first view of a full ruleset and that's what we played.

So, to me OAD&D (with cthulhu and melnibonean stuff in the DD) is old-school and everything after that is new munchkin style stuff wheras D20 and forward is 'modern.'

That said, when I finally went back in later years and tried Holmes and then OD&D (3 booklets) I was astonished at how fast furious and fun it was. Savage Worlds eat my pimple.

Why did I post this? Shrug. To amuse my two readers and hope for a flame war devoid of fact.
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BECMI is Old School - by Kersus - 08-04-2016, 04:24 AM
RE: BECMI is Old School - by Lunamancer - 09-25-2016, 08:47 PM
RE: BECMI is Old School - by Oedipussy Rex - 09-26-2016, 11:36 PM
RE: BECMI is Old School - by Kersus - 09-28-2016, 01:17 AM
RE: BECMI is Old School - by Lunamancer - 10-03-2016, 04:17 AM

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