What was the first Dungeons and Dragons rule system you used?

jonesy

A Wicked Kendragon

• Apr 2, 2013

• #51

Li Shenron said:

I didn't notice them in the list because of the "multicolor box" and "black box" tags while in my memory I remember the red rather than the black (it's literally more black than red, but the red sticks out better).

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This is the one I meant by multicolour:

 

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jonesy

A Wicked Kendragon

• Apr 3, 2013

• #52

I seem to have missed this as well:
http://www.wizards.com/dnd/DnDCollectorsEdition.asp

A silver anniversary ruleset with an additional adventure that I don't remember ever seeing. L3: Deep Dwarven Delve. No mention of how many of these were on offer.

 

Flexor the Mighty!

18/100 Strength!

• Apr 3, 2013

• #53

D&D red box, Elmore cover.

 

Nemesis Destiny

Adventurer

• Apr 3, 2013

• #54

Neat poll! Unfortunately I literally can't answer it though, because I honestly don't know what version was used to introduce me to the game! It was circa 1987-ish, so either 1e, some version of Basic, or OD&D. If I had to guess, I would say probably a boxed set, but I have almost zero way of ever finding out for sure.

I can say this much: I remember a picture from the rule book showing a thief with a dagger mugging some dude, in black and white. I also remember asking one of my fellow players about playing a Thief, and he said something about thieves Strength scores being limited to 16 or less (so of course I shouldn't play one, lol). He may have been misinformed, so I don't even know about the validity of that.

 

jonesy

A Wicked Kendragon

• Apr 3, 2013

• #55

Nemesis Destiny said:

I can say this much: I remember a picture from the rule book showing a thief with a dagger mugging some dude, in black and white. I also remember asking one of my fellow players about playing a Thief, and he said something about thieves Strength scores being limited to 16 or less (so of course I shouldn't play one, lol). He may have been misinformed, so I don't even know about the validity of that.

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That sounds like the 1st edition Player's Handbook, but the strength max was for races (16 was female elf).

 

Nemesis Destiny

Adventurer

• Apr 3, 2013

• #56

jonesy said:

That sounds like the 1st edition Player's Handbook, but the strength max was for races (16 was female elf).

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Good to know! I'll have to dig my 1e books out of the box and check sometime. I have a feeling that it was a boxed set, but I don't have a copy of those, so I can't check...

 

Iosue

Legend

• Apr 3, 2013

• #57

Was it this picture? 'Cause this is definitely AD&D 1e PHB.

 

Nemesis Destiny

Adventurer

• Apr 3, 2013

• #58

Iosue said:

Was it this picture? 'Cause this is definitely AD&D 1e PHB.
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Yes indeed, that was it. I haven't seen that image in close to 25 years, but I recognize it without a doubt, it made that much impression on me (I don't know why).

Did that image appear in any other version of the printed rules up to 1987?

(I tried to XP you for producing that, but have done so too recently, apparently).

 

JeffB

Legend

• Apr 3, 2013

• #59

Unsure if the books my DM had were from a whitebox or OCE, but I voted OCE, as that was what I bought not long after.

 

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Mad Hamish

First Post

• Apr 3, 2013

• #60

I started in the Red Box Basic D&D series but we got advanced to 10th level so the first game was Expert...