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I’ll correct a bit and say that I’m playing the competitor system DC20 at the moment. But same niche, same circles. lol. Thank you.

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I've played a bit as a DM/GM (I hate DM'ing 5e). However, I always wanted to do Basic Fantasy Role-Playing Game (BFRPG), which is like B/X but with ascending armor class.

I’ve never heard of that system. I’ve been doing one called DC20. That system is slightly crunchier than 5E though, which seems to be the opposite direction of where you went.

I’m forever DM and mostly fine with that. I prefer DMing and if I had nothing else going on, I’d prefer to DM 2/3 to 3/4 of the time.

I wouldn't mind actually doing trying DC20 and 2E, since 2E is crunchy (not as much as 1E though), and DC20 is actually interesting. Isn't your podcast, The Story Game, using a heavily modified DC20 deal?

I'd also DM as long as I can, since playing as a PC might not be my thing necessarily.

It’s basically using no formal rules at all, since only my oldest can barely read and I don’t expect them to actually stick to any rules anyway. Their rule set is merely that they have to stick to a set of 3 specific powers. And they can’t even stick to that. lol. My daughter chose 1) wand that conjured toys and candy 2) a flying unicorn mount 3) magic singing voice My son chose 1) super strength 2) button that turns him into giant animals 3) dragon mount. The mounts were forgotten. The only one that has stayed consistent is my son’s transformation button. lol. We have fun though. I’ll introduce them to DC20 in maybe 5 years. Now my weekly party with adults is DC20 and they are set in a Roman era setting where the dwarves are the Germanic people’s, the Faye are the celts, elves are the Greeks, the gnomes are the Slavs, and the orcs are the Huns. My players are having fun with the NPC names like “pompous coitus” and “Gaius testiculatos” for adversarial politicians too.

Sounds like we need just 2-3 more people to make a DC20 podcast. lol. Though we should wait until the spell rework is done, for consistency sake.

Doing some research on this matter, I found some decent options for those who are young. I found things like TOON, Hero Kids (which it looks very similar to the ruleset you used in The Story Game, despite being informal), Tales of Equestria (for My Little Pony fans, that's a thing), Beyond the Wall (basically, old-school D&D with a step-by-step process of creating settings, characters and scenarios), Chief Engineer... and many more. While I started on 5E, I went for BFRPG because WOTC messed up D&D after the 5.1 SRD was made Creative Commons, which completely goofed with the OGL.

I'd be down for trying DC20 as a player. Either that, or I could do BFRPG, which I was always meaning to do sometime soon on Nostr or elsewhere Nostr-related.

Yep. That’s the same reason why I switched to DC20. That and the nonsense with DNDBeyond. Overcharging and making you pay subscriptions AND buy pdfs… forget that. DC20s creator is insistent that once you own a thing you OWN it. Even when he updates or errata’s things, you get the update free if you bought the original.

BFRPG's core rules and supplements can be bought as physical books at cost (Amazon has them), but the PDF's are free. I have pretty much all the PDF's for the rulebooks, not so much adventure modules.

Definitely need to at least take look then at least. I make my own adventures anyway: so the latter part doesn’t matter to me. Thank you.

We’ll see if we can get another 2-3 people on board for a full party. But I’d be totally up for it if my schedule could allow.