Editing Basic Role-Playing (section)

==Reception==
In the July 1981 edition of ''[[The Space Gamer]]'' (Issue No. 41), Ronald Pehr commented that "''Basic Role-Playing'' is too little too late. ''[[RuneQuest]]'' is long established, does an adequate job of teaching role-playing, and there are now even more games to choose from. If you want to teach role-playing to a very young, but literate, child, ''Basic Role-Playing'' is excellent. Otherwise, for all its charm, it's not much use.".<ref name="SG">{{cite journal|last=Pehr |first=Ronald |date=July 1981 |title=Capsule Reviews|journal=[[The Space Gamer]]|publisher=[[Steve Jackson Games]]|issue=41|pages=30}}</ref>

In the August 1981 edition of ''[[Dragon (magazine)|Dragon]]'' (Issue 52), John Sapienza noted that ''Basic Roleplaying'' was "not a fantasy role-playing game as such, but a handbook on how to role-play and a simple combat system to help the beginner get into the act." Despite this, Sapienza called it "one of the best introductions to the practical social interactions in gaming that I have read, and will give beginning gamers the kind of guidance they typically do not get in the full-scale games they will graduate to, since game writers usually spend their time on mechanics instead of on the proper relationships between player and player, player and referee, or player and character." He concluded, "''Basic Role-Playing'' is a truly universal introduction to the hobby — highly recommended."<ref name=dragon>{{cite journal|last=Sapienza|first=John| date=August 1981 |title=Basic Role-Playing made easy|journal=[[Dragon (magazine)|Dragon]]|publisher=[[TSR (company)|TSR, Inc.]]|issue=52|pages=72}}</ref>

=== Awards ===
The ''BRP'' itself has been the recipient, via its games, of many awards. Most notable was the 1981 [[Origins Award]] for ''Best Roleplaying Rules of 1981'' for ''[[Call of Cthulhu (role-playing game)|Call of Cthulhu]]''.<ref name="orgwin">{{cite web|url=http://www.originsgames.com/awards/1981/list-of-winners |title=Origins Award Winners (1981) |access-date=September 14, 2007 |author=Origins |publisher=Academy of Adventure Gaming Arts & Design |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081121124811/http://www.originsgames.com/awards/1981/list-of-winners |archive-date=November 21, 2008 }}</ref> Other editions of ''Call of Cthulhu'' have also won Origins Awards including the Hall of Fame award. The ''BRP'' Character Generation software has also won awards for its design.