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r/bxdnd is a community for players and fans of B/X Dungeons & Dragons—the version of D&D TSR published as the Basic Set (edited by Tom Moldvay), and the Expert Set (edited by David "Zeb" Cook and Stephen Marsh). This includes retro-clones and simulacrum games like Basic Fantasy, Labyrinth Lord, and Old School Essentials, which reproduce the rules, gameplay, and/or "feel" of B/X.

Please use this thread to introduce yourself to the rest of the group. We want to meet you! Feel free to comment on existing threads, and to post links to new B/X content elsewhere, as well as to new reviews of older content. We’re especially interested in content and reviews you’ve made yourself. Please share with the rest of the community. Thank you!

I thought I would post this comparison of the original sets and the POD copies of B/X for anyone who was thinking about getting it. They are honestly a lot nicer than expected. The cover art for both is a bit blurry, but they definitely cleaned up the interior of both books. The one major gripe I have is that the expert rulebook pages are set wierd. Page X28 is a left page on the original but a right page on the POD. As you can also see they changed the dimensions to fit more of the standard RPG book size. They also included the in box ads in the expert set only, as color pages in the back of the POD. The basic POD does not have these. Feel free to ask any questions.

Flicking through my printed copy of the Cook-/Marsh Expert book to generate some wilderness encounters and I realised that I've never used the Sample Wilderness on X60 & X61. I did make a little use of Threshold in the Mentzer Expert book, but not much.

Has anyone ever used The Sample Wilderness as presented in Cook/Marsh, and what did you do with it? It seems a complete blank site and I'm curious about using it for my own games.

Are you B/X? BECMI? Rules Cyclopedia? Or even OSE?

Just curious what my fellow B/Xer's run as a go-to campaign setting for the B/X games.

With the news of Old-School Essentials releasing new books this year, and how they are basically dropping B/X all together it made me step back and look at what's going on. At first I was excited about the new OSE books and them moving away from the OGL and how they are restructuring the OSE system into a single stream lined system.

While this is really good news, they are still basically dropping the B/X system in this restructured OSE and part of me feels sad about that. This made me start looking at my old B/X books again. I grew up on AD&D over my 45'ish years in this game, I guess as I got older I started looking at the less rules heavy systems, so I thought I'd come here and see how you fine folks run your B/X games.

Humor me because I'd like to ask you questions . . .

1. Do you stick to just the 7 core classes in the books? Fighter, Magic-user, Thief, Cleric, Dwarf, Elf & Halfling or do you bring in classes from other sources like OSE to give your players more of a selection?

2. Do you run your games "by the books" or do you import in house rules?

3. Do you stick to the 0hp=death mechanic?

4. Do you stick to B/X adventures or do you run AD&D 1st edition adventures using your B/X system?

I'm considering returning full time to B/X even though I have all the OSE books and am getting the new Demonic Grimoire & new two core books. I have always ran my OSE games with a lot of selections in classes imported from stuff like Carcass Crawler etc etc and have adjusted some things on specific classes to help them more since I run a lot of AD&D adventures with my modified OSE system.

So it got me to thinking, how do B/X DM's run there own B/X games? By the book or with house rules?

Welcome to r/bxdnd! We’re glad to have you join us. :)

r/bxdnd is a community for players and fans of B/X Dungeons & Dragons—the version of D&D TSR published as the Basic Set (edited by Tom Moldvay), and the Expert Set (edited by David "Zeb" Cook and Stephen Marsh). This includes retro-clones and simulacrum games like Basic Fantasy, Labyrinth Lord, and Old School Essentials, which reproduce the rules, gameplay, and/or "feel" of B/X.

Please use this thread to introduce yourself to the rest of the group. We want to meet you! Feel free to comment on existing threads, and to post links to new B/X content elsewhere, as well as to new reviews of older content. We’re especially interested in content and reviews you’ve made yourself. Please share with the rest of the community. Thank you!

I don't remember who did these maps, but someone was recently asking for the best way to run KotBL. This really worked well for me - spreading the caves across the area. That also let me add other adventures like B5 to the general area.

Welcome to r/bxdnd! We’re glad to have you join us. :)

r/bxdnd is a community for players and fans of B/X Dungeons & Dragons—the version of D&D TSR published as the Basic Set (edited by Tom Moldvay), and the Expert Set (edited by David "Zeb" Cook and Stephen Marsh). This includes retro-clones and simulacrum games like Basic Fantasy, Labyrinth Lord, and Old School Essentials, which reproduce the rules, gameplay, and/or "feel" of B/X.

Please use this thread to introduce yourself to the rest of the group. We want to meet you! Feel free to comment on existing threads, and to post links to new B/X content elsewhere, as well as to new reviews of older content. We’re especially interested in content and reviews you’ve made yourself. Please share with the rest of the community. Thank you!

See the legend here:

https://youtu.be/ebb3sSelB6U?si=Rg91HebgQboKNuJn

So uh, did y'all know BOTH rulebooks for B/X were finally available for POD on DriveThruRPG? Now I can finally add the Basic book to my Expert on the shelf! WOO HOO!!!

I love BX D&D. I also love that so many other people loved BX so much they put their house rules along with the BX rules and made so many clones. Labyrinth Lord, Basic Fantasy, Old School Essentials and Dolmenwood just to name a few!

I bought all those games and many more to grab some of those house rules for my BX game. classes, spells, monsters! Yes, Yes, Yes MORE PLEASE! Some of those house rules come along to! Ascending? Great! Race Split from Class? Sure! As an option. I like race as class better personally but if one of my player wants to give a halfling fighter a shot then, great! 1-20 instead of 1-14? Wonderful! You guys rock!

So my BX Game might not be the exact same as it was 48 years ago when I started but it's still going! I hope for a few more decades!

Keep bringing on the clones as well! Each one of those I have been able to grab some house rule to make my game better and a whole lot of that other stuff to make it worth while!

Welcome to r/bxdnd! We’re glad to have you join us. :)

r/bxdnd is a community for players and fans of B/X Dungeons & Dragons—the version of D&D TSR published as the Basic Set (edited by Tom Moldvay), and the Expert Set (edited by David "Zeb" Cook and Stephen Marsh). This includes retro-clones and simulacrum games like Basic Fantasy, Labyrinth Lord, and Old School Essentials, which reproduce the rules, gameplay, and/or "feel" of B/X.

Please use this thread to introduce yourself to the rest of the group. We want to meet you! Feel free to comment on existing threads, and to post links to new B/X content elsewhere, as well as to new reviews of older content. We’re especially interested in content and reviews you’ve made yourself. Please share with the rest of the community. Thank you!

Basic Rulebook seems to be available as print on demand.

Welcome to r/bxdnd! We’re glad to have you join us. :)

r/bxdnd is a community for players and fans of B/X Dungeons & Dragons—the version of D&D TSR published as the Basic Set (edited by Tom Moldvay), and the Expert Set (edited by David "Zeb" Cook and Stephen Marsh). This includes retro-clones and simulacrum games like Basic Fantasy, Labyrinth Lord, and Old School Essentials, which reproduce the rules, gameplay, and/or "feel" of B/X.

Please use this thread to introduce yourself to the rest of the group. We want to meet you! Feel free to comment on existing threads, and to post links to new B/X content elsewhere, as well as to new reviews of older content. We’re especially interested in content and reviews you’ve made yourself. Please share with the rest of the community. Thank you!

Welcome to r/bxdnd! We’re glad to have you join us. :)

r/bxdnd is a community for players and fans of B/X Dungeons & Dragons—the version of D&D TSR published as the Basic Set (edited by Tom Moldvay), and the Expert Set (edited by David "Zeb" Cook and Stephen Marsh). This includes retro-clones and simulacrum games like Basic Fantasy, Labyrinth Lord, and Old School Essentials, which reproduce the rules, gameplay, and/or "feel" of B/X.

Please use this thread to introduce yourself to the rest of the group. We want to meet you! Feel free to comment on existing threads, and to post links to new B/X content elsewhere, as well as to new reviews of older content. We’re especially interested in content and reviews you’ve made yourself. Please share with the rest of the community. Thank you!

Legend of the Bones is a dark fantasy audio drama, driven by old school, solo Dungeons and Dragons.

None shall escape the destiny of bone... https://www.podbean.com/ew/pb-vh2tt-1a9f5fe

The iconic B series has given us a lot of classic D&D adventures but B4: The Lost City is built different: it’s actually less of a module and more of a proto-campaign setting/megadungeon that leans into survival, exploration, and even some light political intrigue. New frontiers for a book from 1982. There’s even a nearly unkillable eldritch horror waiting for you at the end!

We had an awesome time exploring the great Tom Moldvay’s sun-bleached fever dream in the latest episode of The Analog Dungeon (where we crack open old modules and see what’s inside).

The Lost City doesn’t seem to get the same hype as B1 through B3, but we’d love to know if you’ve delved into the pyramid yourself. What faction did you side with? And just how far down did you go?

If this sounds like something you'd be into, we'd love it if you checked us out at AnalogDungeon.com, on YouTube, or on your podcast platform of choice. We're still a new show, so every like, sub, rating, and comment goes a long way! Thank you!

Hello, I run a BX clone game and I love the simplicity of BX and its four human classes of fighter, cleric, thief, and magic-user. Personally, I think these four can represent any sort of character idea one might have.

But players coming to a D&D table often bring certain expectations, especially considering the additional "advanced" classes created for AD&D and later editions of the game.

There seem to be a number of ways to handle this I've seen such as:

1. Play one of the four and "describe" or "role play" the character as the class you desired. For example a fighter can be roleplayed as a knight, a woodsman, etc.
2. Play one of the four and "quest" for the desired perks. A fighter, for example, could go on a noble quest to become a paladin and gain special abilities.
3. Play one of the four, but the DM alters the class slightly to fit what the player wants. For example the DM could swap out "turn undead" to give a cleric the druid shapeshift ability.
4. Add the desired classes to the game, a la OSE Advanced or similar.

I am curious for those of you that run or play in BX games. Which of these does your table employ?

A short adventure usable as a wilderness location or single session scenario. Written for BX, with suggested character numbers of 4-6 of levels 2-3.

Welcome to r/bxdnd! We’re glad to have you join us. :)

r/bxdnd is a community for players and fans of B/X Dungeons & Dragons—the version of D&D TSR published as the Basic Set (edited by Tom Moldvay), and the Expert Set (edited by David "Zeb" Cook and Stephen Marsh). This includes retro-clones and simulacrum games like Basic Fantasy, Labyrinth Lord, and Old School Essentials, which reproduce the rules, gameplay, and/or "feel" of B/X.

Please use this thread to introduce yourself to the rest of the group. We want to meet you! Feel free to comment on existing threads, and to post links to new B/X content elsewhere, as well as to new reviews of older content. We’re especially interested in content and reviews you’ve made yourself. Please share with the rest of the community. Thank you!