Welcome to Chaosium¿s BASIC ROLEPLAYING system, a book that collects in one place rules and options for one of the original and most influential role playing game systems in the world. This book offers a framework of rules aimed at allowing players to enact a sort of improvisational radio theater -- only without microphones -- and with dice determining whether the characters succeed or fail at what they attempt to do. In roleplaying games, one player takes on the role of the gamemaster, while the other player(s) assume the roles of player characters in the game. The system is remarkably friendly to newcomers. It is easy to describe the basics of the game system to non-gamers.