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Thanks for that! So I give you this I bought my wife a set of opal dice and I’m not going to say how much I paid. Edit: oh! I didn’t...

I didn't know anyone who just played B/X. I knew a few people who only had B/X. Almost everyone I knew who played AD&D had at least one...

Yiiiiikes. No wonder I'm compelled to buy dice every time I walk past a hobby store. "Nine bucks?!" I'll say, incredulously. "What a...

Now that I think about it, the included dice in the Basic D&D boxed sets probably did more to boost the sales of the game than anything...

A lot of folks talking about how parents and older family members might have "accidentally" bought the Basic Sets instead of AD&D, but I...

I said this in the other thread, but I think marketing had a lot to do with it. By marketing, I'm not just talking about ads (which do...

I started in 1984 with B/X. My brothers and their friends already played and only played AD&D…because Basic was “kids’ stuff.” But they...

In the thread about the sales figures of Basic and Advanced D&D, we are given a chart by @BenRiggs that compares the sales of Basic D&D...

I had wonderful times playing AD&D 1e with great and dear friends back in the ‘80s, for years and years. I am blessed to have those...

Agreed on the timing.

Playing Basic Fantasy with its author right now.

Agreed, I’ve been really liking what’s coming out of his Odyssey, project, but I think we’re still a long ways off from a finished package.

I'm also very interested (and using) in what @mearls is doing both to fix 5e and to develop his own game.

I'm most likely to play Nimble, as my group and I like it. I really want to play 13th Age and Daggerheart and Shadow of the Weird...

Until this thread I didn't realize how many games were actually out there! Now if only days had more than 24 hours and weeks more than 7...