Basic D&D: Did it hook you?

[Deuce Traveler]

Red... and I still have it.

 

[Raven Crowking]

Blue box, Christmas 1979.

RC

 

[EricNoah]

Blue box for me, introduced by my older brother. We didn't stay with it long, we went to AD&D fairly shortly after that. But then my brother moved away and took his stuff. I ended up going to the ... I want to say ... Basic/Expert sets for a good long time until I got the AD&D books for mysef.

 

[Waylander]

It all started with this...

Me too!

 

[Pinotage]

Red... and I still have it.

Yip. Same here. Still have it. Somewhere. In a box. In another country.

Pinotage

 

[Ampolitor]

Star Frontiers

Yep the old red box for me then I went to STAR FRONTIERS, AH my butt kicking Yazarian character. Now how cool was that game, almost as cool as Gamma World!

 

[Clavis]

It all started with this...

Just seeing that box again makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside.

 

[Hussar]

It all started with this...

Me too. Just sent an email to my folks to bring it over to me when they visit next. Woot!

 

[mhensley]

blue box for me

I've always loved basic much more than advanced. And the sample dungeon in the blue book will always be my fav.

 

[TerraDave]

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.)

Right. The Basic D&D as a board game approch may make it a little easier to learn, but also defeats the whole purpose. Kids get into it not becuase its another board game, but becuase it is better then a board game.