What was your first ever D&D product?
BOZ
Creature Cataloguer
IIRC, my friend gave me the 2E PHB & DMG, and Dragonlance Adventures and Forgotten Realms Adventures circa 1990, when i was about 15. 
first thing i bought? geez, i don't remember that... but it probably wasn't until a year or two later that my friend Jim saw above mentioned books on my shelf and told me how he'd always wanted to play D&D...
which was about the time the two of us became true gaming geeks.
first thing i bought? geez, i don't remember that... but it probably wasn't until a year or two later that my friend Jim saw above mentioned books on my shelf and told me how he'd always wanted to play D&D...
which was about the time the two of us became true gaming geeks.
PowerWordDumb
First Post
Memories...
Started out with the 'red box' basic set, and modules B1-4 - all for christmas. Shortly thereafter picked up the Expert set for myself.
I was really hurting for character sheets, but all the store had was the old orange AD&D NPC sheets - two to an 8 1/2 X 11 page, if anyone remembers. After staring in mystification at all the tons of extra spots to write things in (THACO? What's that?), I went out and bought myself the 1e AD&D PHB, DMG, and the World of Greyhawk boxed set... and switched immediately to AD&D.
Out of a sense of completeness, I subsequently picked up the Companions, Master, and Immortals box sets, but my heart was with AD&D from that first set of NPC sheets. To this day I still buy old modules or expansion sets that I find used at gaming stores so that eventually I may have pretty much everything ever released for 1e AD&D.
Started out with the 'red box' basic set, and modules B1-4 - all for christmas. Shortly thereafter picked up the Expert set for myself.
I was really hurting for character sheets, but all the store had was the old orange AD&D NPC sheets - two to an 8 1/2 X 11 page, if anyone remembers. After staring in mystification at all the tons of extra spots to write things in (THACO? What's that?), I went out and bought myself the 1e AD&D PHB, DMG, and the World of Greyhawk boxed set... and switched immediately to AD&D.
Out of a sense of completeness, I subsequently picked up the Companions, Master, and Immortals box sets, but my heart was with AD&D from that first set of NPC sheets. To this day I still buy old modules or expansion sets that I find used at gaming stores so that eventually I may have pretty much everything ever released for 1e AD&D.
KnowTheToe
First Post
I will never forget my first D&D product. I was sixteen when I received my inflatable evil sorceress wearing nothing but chainmail skivies.
Mountain of Mirrors - an Endless Quest book... okay, so it's technically not quite really DnD...
Larry Elmore blue box Expert Set (4th printing?) with X1 Isle of Dread included. Bought it with birthday money from grandma that I received before my b-day. My parents bought me the Elmore-covered Basic Set for my b-day, after much cajoling. Companion, Master, and Immortal sets followed in the next few years.
Larry Elmore blue box Expert Set (4th printing?) with X1 Isle of Dread included. Bought it with birthday money from grandma that I received before my b-day. My parents bought me the Elmore-covered Basic Set for my b-day, after much cajoling. Companion, Master, and Immortal sets followed in the next few years.
