BECM D&D UK Editions?

[Technomancer]

The following quote from a thread on Dragonsfoot:

Likewise, I started with Moldvay. I really didn't like the Mentzer boxed sets. I had moved on to 1E AD&D at the time, and though the Mentzer boxed sets were awful.

But I did pick up a UK Mentzer 5th edition, and with the entire pule set in a paperback novel size book, it really works. It is written slightly differently for the UK market, but the size if the killer. Its a step back to the digest sized books of old.

There was a paperback novel-size version of Mentzer D&D? Does anyone know anything about this? I would love to get my hands on such a creature. Is it pretty much the same as the regular version?

 

[Geron Raveneye]

As far as I remember, it was the Mentzer version, put together in a 270+ pages pocket book format. I think one of my friends actually has one, should take a look into it. Just don't ask me where to find one...I'd scour ebay and the used gaming bookstores online.

 

[Huw]

I remember it. It had the same material as the red boxed set. A number of RPGs had been released as paperbacks in the UK (Fighting Fantasy, Dragon Warriors and Stormbringer (no, not Elric, something else with a similar name)), and I think TSR were just exploiting a new niche.

 

[Prince of Happiness]

A copy got over to a used book store in the States many years back. I picked it up, and I've kept it ever since. I <3 the hell out of it. I call it "the bible."

 

[Technomancer]

I remember it. It had the same material as the red boxed set.

So it was just the Basic rules? I don't suppose there was a version of the Expert rules in this format too?

 

[RFisher]

FWIW Acaeum has a brief entry & picture for it. If I counted right, it's the fifth one down from the top of the page.

(Edit: I always want to put an R in "acaeum".)

 

[Maggan]

I've been wondering about a paperback Expert Set ever since I picked up the paperback Basic Rules a couple of years ago.

It's in my shelf at home, I'll take a look at it and see how it differs from the boxed set. As I remember it, it the same rules, but I'd have to check first before I stake my first born on it.

/M