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Old-School Essentials: Basic Rules

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Old-School Essentials is an award-winning role-playing game of fantastic adventure, monsters, and magic. Players delve into forbidden crypts and forsaken ruins, explore haunted forests and perilous mountain ranges, sail the high seas in search of lost lands, recover fabulous treasures and uncover secrets of ancient magic.

Light, easily modified rules put the focus of play on shared imagination, improvisation, and fun. Modern formatting and layout make the game easy to learn and easy to reference during play. Durable, deluxe quality hardcover books are filled with gorgeous, evocative art. What's more, Old-School Essentials is 100% compatible with the classic Basic/Expert game from 1981, meaning that decades of adventure are at your fingertips!

The Basic Rules

This book is a fully illustrated sample of the basic rules of the game required by players:

  • The full introduction and character creation rules.
  • The four core human classes: cleric, fighter, magic-user, thief.
  • Full lists of adventuring equipment, weapons, and armour.
  • The rules for dungeon adventures, encounters, and combat.
  • The full rules for spell casting, and the list of 1st level spells.

The Complete Game

If you enjoy the free Basic Rules, you may wish to purchase the full game here.

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Chad K February 10, 2024 5:41 pm UTC
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Please make this available in print. A short cheap basic print rulebook like this would help bring new players into the game.
If print copies were $10 , it would be easy to buy a few to get new players. DCC rog and some other games do this.
Think about it.
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Edward A April 20, 2021 6:41 pm UTC
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This is why pdf's are great. After buying it and reading it I was inclined to go to Necrotic Gnome by way of Exatled Funeral and purchase the whole setting. Necrotic Gnome has lots of cool indy rpg stuff. With a sharp eye for presentation. The site also is MAF! Selling many Indy metal artists material.
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Cameron W January 03, 2020 12:36 am UTC
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I know that Old-School Essentials covers all of B/X DnD, but I'm interested in specifically just the B/X Basic rules at the moment.

How closely does the content in OSE: Basic Rules match _just_ the B/X Basic rules? Or is content from the B/X Expert rules included in OSE: Basic Rules as well?
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Necrotic G January 03, 2020 8:22 am UTC
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Good question! The "Basic" in "Old-School Essentials Basic Rules" is actually unrelated to the meaning of the word in the context of the original Basic/Expert sets. The Basic Rules PDF is a free preview of the full game and only contains player-facing rules (i.e. no monsters, magic items, or rules for running adventures).
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This title was added to our catalog on April 12, 2019.