What was your first ever D&D product?

diaglo · Oct 29, 2002

the white boxed set by Gygax and Arneson. it had 3 booklets and reference sheets. the Original Collector's Edition. i later bought the 4 supplements plus the original Chainmail rules and Sword & Spells.

jaults · Oct 29, 2002

I got the Red Basic Set (12th printing) and Blue Expert Set (4th printing) 'round about the same time (maybe at the same time). Alas, they have been lost in the wilds of a closet or something...

Jason

Qlippoth · Oct 29, 2002

Module D1 (Descent Into the Depths of the Earth). Unfortunately, kid that I was, I had no rulebooks, dice, or clue as to what I'd need to actually use the thing.

http://www.acaeum.com/DDIndexes/ModPages/ModScans/D1mono.html

Rulebooks came later.

Ravellion · Oct 29, 2002

The 2nd edition AD&D PHB (the one with the Black Cover & Spine).

Rav

Old Fezziwig · Oct 29, 2002

Basic D&D 13th Printing. Red box, Elmore art. Somewhere soon after that, the rest of the D&D sets (from a friend who no longer was using them) and a copy of Temple of Elemental Evil.

Best,
tKL

roytheodd · Oct 29, 2002

My friend and I began playing at the age of 10 with just a 1st Edition Fiend Folio. We had no true clue to the rules, but we made them up as we saw fit. After a few weeks I got the Basic Set in the red box, so that was my first actual D&D product.

King_Stannis · Oct 29, 2002

Henry said:
First ever gaming product was the Red Erol Otus Covered Basic D&D set, with module B2 Keep on the Borderlands inside...

Same here. I can still picture it in my head, the day I got it. For my 12th Birthday, I think.

I still use the D20, affectionately referred to as "widowmaker" by my players. The boxed set, however, is lost to the ages.

Gez · Oct 29, 2002

Player's Option: Skills & Power (french version), I think. Either that, or The Forgotten Realms Adventure Guide (french version also), or the 2e FR boxed set (original version).

But they were purchased by my brother, and I didn't used them. Perused a bit, laughed at silly rules (so elves can't be druids, bards, or rangers; despite these classes being the most fit to their description ? -- just for example), and left to gather dust.

He played AD&D at a club I didn't go to. At home, we played other games, like Ars Magica, some White Wolferies, and some French games no non-French have ever heard off (well, you may have heard of INS/MV, but this one we didn't played much).

So, the first D&D book I really used was the 3e PH (WotC's official abreviation of Player's Handbook, even if everyone says PHB for Player's Hand Book because of TSR).

D'karr · Oct 29, 2002

D&D Basic Set. Magenta box with the Erol Otus cover.

My next purchase was the Expert Set with X1 - The Isle of Dread included. Followed so closely by the AD&D DMG that it made my head spin.