Basic D&D: Did it hook you?

[Animus]

Hello all,

As a follow up to this thread, were you introduced to RPGs via Basic D&D or a basic version of an RPG?

 

[S'mon]

My intro to RPGs was the Fighting Fantasy gamebooks, Fighting Fantasy introductory RPG, then 1e AD&D - DMG & MM purchased for £5 each from a fellow schoolboy. I never had much to do with Basic D&D until recently.

 

[TerraDave]

It all started with this...

 

[delericho]

The "Red Box" Basic Set for me.

 

[Animus]

The "Red Box" Basic Set for me.

Same for me.

 

[bento]

D&D hooked me for a couple of years, but I then jumped into other games. I was always "stuck" being the DM for players who expected the game to always go their way. In high school and college I really enjoyed Marvel Super-Heroes from TSR.

 

[Jack Daniel]

"Black Box" for me.

 

[Mark Hope]

I voted yes, although technically speaking the answer is no

I heard about D&D through a number of sources (magazine ads, friends, the ET movie) and, lacking any actual gamebooks, wrote my own simple rpg based on what I had heard. The next time I was in the UK, I bought the set below shown in TerraDave's post and got to see what a real rpg was actually like. All downhill from there ...

 

[Delta]

Hell yes. I'm still looking at the blue book right at the side of my desk.

I think that far and away the worst ongoing strategic choice TSR/WOTC has made for 20 years now is to not have a concise, totally compatible, full-character-creation basic set for D&D. (Maybe that's impossible under the current ruleset. If so, it should be so fixed.)

 

[Voadam]

Red book basic set.