Request for players, LOTR campaign

daggerfella93 @daggerfella93
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Request for players, LOTR campaign
daggerfella93 @daggerfella93
Hi in a year or so I'm looking to run a Lord of the Rings Campaign using
Frank Mentzer/Arron Alliston's BECMI D&D?
It won't cost you anything, and I'll be hosting it on Roll20 with Discord for Voice Chat
It's the system they were also publishing at the same time of AD&D 1st edition. It's a full system that doesn't break apart at the seams with high level play. It features mass combat, sieges, overland travel, overwater travel, wrestling, skills and a competent Weapons Mastery system.
It's not a pillow fight like d&d 5th edition is as you have limited resources, encounters can be hella deadly. I am using a revision of it called Old School Essentials, so it will use Ascending Armor class (like modern d&d), individual initiative, variable weapon damage, Race & Classing as well as multi-classing.
It's not missing anything or dated due to its age, the system has the lost rules from d&d that are no longer used like wandering monsters, dungeon exploration phases with turns, rules for social encounters, Morale (monster & retainers), wilderness exploration (getting lost, wandering monsters... Etc), and dark vision works differently since it's infravision and follows different rules with perception.
It is a little bit harder but it's a more fulfilling rules lite experience. (Compiled it's less than a players manual for 5th edition)
If anyone might be interested, let me know. The Lord of the Rings campaign will come after my long campaign on Mystara finishes.

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Request for players, LOTR campaign
daggerfella93 @daggerfella93
I can also teach people the basic rules in the mean time if you are interested. The basic rules are pretty short, concise and well explained
You can grab the basic rules here:
https://necroticgnome.com/products/old-school-essentials-basic-rules
But it doesn't contain all the classes or races, or how to make a character with Race + Class. BECMI started as Basic/Expert, which was created as an update to the 1976 0E Dungeons and Dragons made by Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson. You couldn't do race and class. You picked elf, dwarf, halfling, wizard, thief, cleric or fighter. I have the Advanced Fantasy OSE books which outline more classes from AD&D as well as other races to play as.
This system is simpler to run than D&D 5E, it takes 5 minutes to roll a character. With full BECMI (ie adding in the rules from Companions & Masters) it can take up to 15 minutes to roll a character with combat mastery & skills. on its own OSE (B/X) is an excellent system for lvl 1-14 play, I chose to add in the rules from the other books since it fits middle earth better to support the setting and mass/siege combat.
Not all of it will come at you all at once, gets introduced at a decent pace. It won't start off as a potential war game.
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