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Here are three widely tested systems which offer free PDF rulebooks.

Basic Fantasy Created to be compatible with 3/3.5e, this is fully fleshed out OSE goodness written to be more approachable. Uses ascending armor class. Print options are sold at near cost and are very very inexpensive.

Old School Essentials Basic OSE is the most popular reproduction of the original B/X set. Uses descending armor class. With several different iterations at several different prices, this PDF is free and covers the basics. Enough to get a game going.

White Box : Fantastic Medieval Adventure Game A spiritual successor to Swords & Sorcery White Box. This is the complete OSR experience. Uses descending armor class, but contains alternate status for ascending. Like Basic Fantasy, the print version is under five bucks on amazon.

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Have you ever switched from a more basic game to a more advanced one mid campaign? Looking for advice, suggestions, reasons why it’s a terrible idea, etc. (self.osr)

submitted 1 year ago by I_Am_Randy to c/osr

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I’m currently running an open table with Advanced Old School Essentials. The campaign has been ongoing for about 2 years and I like the campaign and don’t want to lose progress made by starting a new campaign. I’ve recently been playing with Hyperborea in another game and I like it more than I do OSE Advanced. My core group of players in the open table are fine with the switch, and some prefer Hyperborea too.

However I know there are going to be complications. Hyperborea is all humans. Currently my advanced OSE is race as class.

I’ll have to figure out how to port over existing characters that aren’t human. Right now I plan to look at the existing characters and figure out what percentage to max level they are and them drop them into Hyperborea at that same percentage to max level.

I’ll try to port spells across as best I can or worst case just ask the player to pick a new spell.

Magic items seem compatible enough that I shouldn’t have any problems with a straight port across.

So now the reason for my post. Have you done something similar? What pit falls did you run into?

Any advice or suggestions on things I haven’t thought of?

Or is this just a terrible idea that should be scrapped? If so why?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Funny enough, I've gone in the reverse direction.

But I think if I were to do that, I would: be up front with players, try to mask a lot of the mechanics (unless the switch was to bring crunch to the players), be patient and willing to backtrack, have some after-game-discussions on how things went.