Looks great - thanks for the pitch, Scott, I'll check it out (really liking the idea of having some cool chase rules for Mörk Borg). Hope it goes well. Cheers Garry.

Shame on you for supporting Ben Milton and Knave 2e. Ben lied to us Kickstarter backers and sold advanced copies of what was supposed to be a Kickstarter exclusive cover at a convention before ANY of the backers got their books. I still don't have mine as of this post. Then he treated us like we were the bad guys for complaining when the exclusive cover was renamed "premium edition." Don't support ANY content creator that lies and then disrespects their backers. Shame on you both!

Thank you so much for having me on your show! I very much appreciate the dialogue!

32:32 that's what she said moment

I will listen/watch it later, but in the meantime (after minute and 15 seconds in) - I gave this video a thumb up for the awesome cool and professionally made intro. 01:04-01:14, I wonder why ironically enough, it totally feels to me as The game pitch.. and an excellent one.

I just discovered this book, and it is now probably one of my favorite books of all time.

I love Basic Fantasy. It's really the one and only "forever system" I need to run old school campaigns for years on end. There's always a flashy new thing in the OSR scene but BFRPG has real staying power.

Very cool.

Immediate Backing for me!

Dammit, I was going to try to skip backing any Kickstarters this year. Looks like I'm not going to be able to do that now :)

Wild, here I am, randomly listening to this podcast, walking the streets of a little village called Binstead, on the Isle of Wight! Hello from home, Richard!

I agree that THACO was not used in the 70s in game groups, I started in 78 and we never used it. However, it is listed in the 1E AD&D DMG in the monster charts at the back. Published in 79 but being worked on by at least 77 the term must have been in use, but not used by most at the time.

Wow...an hour-long history of one of the most beautiful, visual-arts-related, cinematic, genres ever-and we get to see two faces talk the whole time? Finally; let's go!

SERVIETSKY___THE MODRONS/ Morons .

As always, Garry, thanks for getting everyone together for the interview. I was already onboard with this but it was very cool to watch everyone chat about these new Mushmen books.

Funny character sheet where Tach0 is an encounter stat !

I will be backing the hell out of this, and nabbing Ragged Hollow while I'm at it. Hats off to Liam, a fellow irishman, an awesome adventure!

Thank you for the video, great conversation. I had a smile that Seth wanted a game that enabled you to play a Replicant in the blade runner universe, and all of a sudden... Blade runner Replicant Kickstarter is announced, coincidence??

It looks very funny ! Obviously not everyone is happy in Oz

I've had one of these lying around the house for ages. Always thought I was missing some extra bits, like some removable guide page or something which had gotten lost. But it was all in the fine print. Sheesh 😂

13:25 for ground growth - characters are changed from their experienced occurrences rather than mechanics

What a poser...

I had this as a kid

36:23 - "So you hit a point around 35 or so" Yo... too real dude... too real! 😭😂 1:11:36 - respect 💜 Great interview! Thank yo so much! :D

I’m just obsessed with whatever the origin and material of that Wizards print behind Yochai are.

Kobayashi is a design genius. I always come back to the black sword hack and am amazed at how well designed it is-and how well laid out everything is. I’m excited to see what he does next.

I love the 1930s. The pinnacle of Pulp, leading into Superheroes. The Art Deco aesthetic. The villainy of the Nazis. So many great aspects. Looking forward to your work.

I was on board until yochai was acting like an anti-nazi nazi...

Chris Gonnerman is one of the nicest,best guys in the TTRPG scene. I just love that he provides free entry into our hobby with his material. Thank you for all your hard work over the years and all the good it's done, Chris.

I love the idea of this. The OSR is incredible and has done wonders for simplifying and speeding up the game, but now I'm ready for more. Idk what I mean exactly, but an OSR style 4e D&D with combat options getting some love sounds close to right. I hope Chris's new system is able to scratch some of that itch!

Ace!

Thanks for the video! Excellent interview! Always a treat to hear the insights of Chris Gonnerman.

Another great interview! Thanks for doing these! I backed this on kickstarter, it's probably one of those games I'll never get to run, but from experience, McDowall's books are so good there is always something in them you can use and their inspirational value is HUGE! Planning to mine this for my second Dolmenwood campaign, which I have plans for making very knight-and-faction centric.

Noice.

Mr. Gonnerman has done more for my enjoyment of the hobby than anyone else, except perhaps Gary Gygax who was the first to share the idea. Thank you!

Interesting thing about ascending AC, I saw an interview with Zeb Cook where he said they presented it for AD&D 2e, but the higher-ups at TSR didn’t want it (compatibility with 1e).

Love your channel! Great interview and thanks for bringing important creators into the light! This is RPG canon!

Thank you Chris. Really enjoyed hearing about the origins of Basic Fantasy. I need to get a new copy soon. Of course I have the pdf of everything but I gave my physical copy to my grandson. I really appreciate you putting out a such a great ruleset that anyone can afford.

a huge thanks to Chris Gonnerman and all he has done!

Really appreciated the opportunity to come on your show! Probably shouldn't have let me run on so long though...

Great video. I love the minor mention of myself early in the video.... Thanks, I am just a minor contributor in the scheme of things. BFRPG is really the way forward of gaming.

BFRPG is a rules toolkit that has awesome utility - community derived but led by someone who understands the open source model and related licensing. Great interview and discussion. Always love hearing from Chris. (And Iron Falcon is a love let letter to OD&D play I really enjoy too.)

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I've had many great sessions thanks to Basic Fantasy. The website is a treasure trove, so many helpful pamphlets with optional rules. Thank you to all the community that have put this together over the years. Truly, a band of heroes if there ever was one!

Thank you for this interview. Keep these great shows going 😊

I'm a huge fan of games during this time period so I'm vey excited about this!

Does Mr. Gal still send out his game? I would love a copy. It sounds pretty amazing.

D&D is certainly in the upper third of strangeness of rpgs (the monsters, cosmology, Gary’s weird flowery prose, vancian magic and the science fantasy elements [ESP, Infravision]). Most games are more grounded like Gurps, Dragonbane, Dark Eye, Traveller or even Warhammer and Shadowrun feel way less weird. Hack even the rules are weird with Thac0 and percentile skills. D&D is deeply weird.

Official D&D could end tomorrow and real D&D would live on thru the OSR. Actually I wish it would end tomorrow so we could get the herd to play real D&D.

Thanks for the entertaining interview! 👍 I just got Stu's book two days ago, and I am hooked. I kept on having dreams at night for some years about going into an rpg-shop and buying old rpg materials, with the fascination I used to have as an adolescent. Two years ago, I just allowed myself to live my dream, and I have gotten myself quite a large rpg collection since. This book shows me, I am not the only one.