BECMI is Old School

[Kersus]

Is it?

Whenever I see BECMI



I invariably think BESM



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.