In the final analysis, this is more or less Basic Fantasy. I have stared at both for a while, and yes, there is slightly different editing, but, one is mostly the other. I have taken the Core book, spliced it with the Monsters book, purged a few pages, inserted the Monsters portion right where the core manual monsters would be, removed the core manual monsters (they are redundant) and added the portion of the core that follows the inserted monsters. Presto 258 pages of compact game goodness. Or you could just buy both books and not fuss so much hehe. But Basic has a wealth of Adventures, and 3 monster add on books and then some, all available to be downloaded for free, or in my case I bought a nice batch of items on Amazon for close to what a print service would charge. Iron Falcon likely could use anything made for Basic. Or, if you are a rules lite obsessed DM, Iron Falcon's main book is an option. But it is about the same choice as buying just the Basic core book too :) It's like debating various brands of cola that are not Pepsi or Coke :)

Great Product.

This is pre-BX, pre-Moldvey, pre-Mentzer, pre-everyone. All of these gamers added something to the game we love ... but ... this is what Gygax and Arneson let loose on the world.

Regardless of what version and style you prefer, this one is the bare bones game that we all loved.

It was raw and dangerous. Perhaps, we've lost something in translation. Perhaps, we have become jaded. If you remember the excitement of crawling through tunnels and fleeing dragons too horrible to face, then, you remember what made this game.

Enjoy your 5E and Old School if you wish. However, you do yourself a disservice if you don't see from where the Giants stood that made the view so great.

Thanks Chris for your faithful work. Huzzah from one gamer to another.

I can't see that much difference between it an Basic Roleplaying by the same guy. Basic is better supported and has lots of free scenarios etc.