Refreshingly Accessible
Posted: Fri Aug 05, 2016 3:31 pm
In this day of needing a $50 buy-in just for players and a further $100 for a GM just to have the minimum books necessary to start a game, I had a good time putting together a BFRPG bundle on Amazon.
$25 5 x Basic Fantasy Role-Playing Game 3rd Edition Rulebooks
$3.80 The Basic Fantasy Field Guide
$3.86 BF1 Morgansfort:The Western Lands Campaign
$3.80 BF2 Fortress Tomb and Tower: The Glain Campaign
$3.75 JN1 The Chaotic Caves
$3.75 JN2 Monkey Isle
$4.90 JN3 Saga of the Giants
$3.75 AA1 Adventure Anthology 1
$3.65 DC1 Tales From the Laughing Dragon
$5.00 The Role-Playing Game Primer and Old School Playbook by Mr. Gonnerman
$12.99 35 Dice in 5 Complete Sets (5 sets of 7 polyhedral dice w/ 5 dice bags)
TOTAL $74.25 and Free Shipping (with Prime)
That is everything a person who has never played an RPG would need to get a whole campaign going for four players with minimal effort, down to the dice and a well-written primer to get started (pencil and paper still required).
It amazes me that for half the cost of a GM buy-in for 5th edition, one could have all they need for a couple of campaigns to keep 5 people busy for months playing a weekly game. All in a system that allows the players and their role in the story to shine brighter than being bogged down in the mire of hundreds of esoteric rules.
Of course, printing your own is even cheaper! Thanks, Chris and the BFRPG team. Oh, and even though I had printed my own rules a few years ago, since I was putting all of that in my Amazon cart, I went ahead and bought it all. I'm going to run a family campaign on Sundays and thought it would be great if my friends who play in my Saturday C&C campaign saw all the BFRPG books and asked about it, because I'd rather run BFRPG anyway.
$25 5 x Basic Fantasy Role-Playing Game 3rd Edition Rulebooks
$3.80 The Basic Fantasy Field Guide
$3.86 BF1 Morgansfort:The Western Lands Campaign
$3.80 BF2 Fortress Tomb and Tower: The Glain Campaign
$3.75 JN1 The Chaotic Caves
$3.75 JN2 Monkey Isle
$4.90 JN3 Saga of the Giants
$3.75 AA1 Adventure Anthology 1
$3.65 DC1 Tales From the Laughing Dragon
$5.00 The Role-Playing Game Primer and Old School Playbook by Mr. Gonnerman
$12.99 35 Dice in 5 Complete Sets (5 sets of 7 polyhedral dice w/ 5 dice bags)
TOTAL $74.25 and Free Shipping (with Prime)
That is everything a person who has never played an RPG would need to get a whole campaign going for four players with minimal effort, down to the dice and a well-written primer to get started (pencil and paper still required).
It amazes me that for half the cost of a GM buy-in for 5th edition, one could have all they need for a couple of campaigns to keep 5 people busy for months playing a weekly game. All in a system that allows the players and their role in the story to shine brighter than being bogged down in the mire of hundreds of esoteric rules.
Of course, printing your own is even cheaper! Thanks, Chris and the BFRPG team. Oh, and even though I had printed my own rules a few years ago, since I was putting all of that in my Amazon cart, I went ahead and bought it all. I'm going to run a family campaign on Sundays and thought it would be great if my friends who play in my Saturday C&C campaign saw all the BFRPG books and asked about it, because I'd rather run BFRPG anyway.