D&D General First official D&D game product you owned?

[Riley]

I answered (BX) Basic Set, but I now recall that I acquired the BX Expert Set a few weeks prior to the BX Basic Set... because Basic was sold out.

It was really hard to play Isle of Dread without, for example, the details of the Basic spells, but we did what we could.

 

[J.Quondam]

Mentzer Basic. Still have the booklets, which I disassembled, hole-punched, and put into a binder decades ago.

 

[Riley]

You could've just called this thread "Tell us you're old without telling us you're old".

Mentzer red box here.

Well, this message board did spin off from Eric Noah's Third Edition News website. Do kids even use message boards these days?

 

[mach1.9pants]

We're a bunch of oldies, 40%+ of basic set!

 

[Greg K]

I chose other. I had the Holmes Basic book which could be purchased separately, but not the actual set. I remember being disappointed, because I had asked for the Advanced Player's Handbook and my aunt and uncle got me the wrong book. Later, I came to really like the cover and the example adventure with the pirate cave and was disappointed when the book was stolen along with other gaming stuff and my truck.

 

[TheLibrarian]

Dragon 140. My parents bought if for me because Walden's didn't Red Box in stock.

 

[J.Quondam]

and was disappointed when the book was stolen along with other gaming stuff and my truck.

I like that you put "and my truck" last, almost like an afterthought. Clearly, you have your priorities straight!

 

[pukunui]

I put 2e core rules. I was introduced to D&D by some school friends, and I expect I would have purchased the 2e PHB first and then the MM and DMG later.

 

[GreyLord]

Well, looking at the responses...I draw one conclusion from the ones I see thus far...(only 5 voting for anything after 3e as their start)...

We are a bunch of OLD foggy players. When you're wee ones started 15-20 years ago...you know it's starting to be an old group.

(Let's not start with mine...I started with OD&D...but I didn't own the books at the time. My first official rules was the Basic set that came out...though there is an interesting story about that one as it seems to be different than the Basic sets that were released to the public).

 

[Stormonu]

79' Holmes basic set for Christmas - which I promptly lost the rulebook, leaving me just with Keep on the Borderlands.

And a few days later, a set of dice that included a D20 that was numbered 0-9 twice, along with two boxes of Grenadier miniatures (one for heroes, one of monsters).