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<blockquote data-quote="steeldragons" data-source="post: 6325897" data-attributes="member: 92511"><p>Started in red box B/E. Played it. Loved it. I'd see the AD&D books. Perused them at my local Waldenbooks. All of those charts and tables and numbers. I wasn't ready for all that mess. Looked like MATH! I hated math. Got the blue box Expert. Played it. Loved it. Didn't know about or it wasn't out yet, the Companion set...and I wasn't much for waiting. I needed MOAR D&D! What do I do past 14th level?!?!</p><p></p><p>Obviously, you get the advanced game...since it's <em>advanced</em>, clearly it was intended to be used when you were done with Expert. The idea they were "separate" games never entered my mind at all until years later/as I got older.</p><p></p><p>Ok...I was ready. </p><p></p><p>One glorious Christmas morn [I'm going to guess it was '82 but might have been '83] I received The Holy Trinity. </p><p></p><p>My GODS was this stuff ADVANCED! Races <em>and</em> Classes?! More races! More classes! Look at the<em> size</em> of these spell lists! B/E had a few monster/terrain tables, but they seemed so SMALL! So limited compared to <em>these </em>ADVANCED ones! OH and reveling in the glory of the pages of creatures that I had never seen (or heard of) or thought of before. An EVIL QUEEN of dragons!? 10 Dragon types instead of 6?! Demons AND Devils? So weird. A little scary. But this is make-believe. It's just a game. Nothing to worry about. But look at some of these images [blush]. Better not let mom see this one. On and on the game just continued to expand, both outward and in, right down to what potions looked like and what random items might be lying around a dungeon room. All of these elements to add to the game: weapon reach and speed, psionics, bards...casting <em>times</em>? Wow.</p><p></p><p>How had I taken so long to enter these golden halls of imagination and creativity?! <em>Clearly</em>, B/E was for CHILDREN who couldn't handle this swirling heady maelstrom of information and options! I was (at all of 9 or 10 y.o.) now, and shall be everafter, an ADVANCED practitioner of the Dungeoneering & Draconic arts! <cue lightning and thunderclaps> BWAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="steeldragons, post: 6325897, member: 92511"] Started in red box B/E. Played it. Loved it. I'd see the AD&D books. Perused them at my local Waldenbooks. All of those charts and tables and numbers. I wasn't ready for all that mess. Looked like MATH! I hated math. Got the blue box Expert. Played it. Loved it. Didn't know about or it wasn't out yet, the Companion set...and I wasn't much for waiting. I needed MOAR D&D! What do I do past 14th level?!?! Obviously, you get the advanced game...since it's [I]advanced[/I], clearly it was intended to be used when you were done with Expert. The idea they were "separate" games never entered my mind at all until years later/as I got older. Ok...I was ready. One glorious Christmas morn [I'm going to guess it was '82 but might have been '83] I received The Holy Trinity. My GODS was this stuff ADVANCED! Races [I]and[/I] Classes?! More races! More classes! Look at the[I] size[/I] of these spell lists! B/E had a few monster/terrain tables, but they seemed so SMALL! So limited compared to [I]these [/I]ADVANCED ones! OH and reveling in the glory of the pages of creatures that I had never seen (or heard of) or thought of before. An EVIL QUEEN of dragons!? 10 Dragon types instead of 6?! Demons AND Devils? So weird. A little scary. But this is make-believe. It's just a game. Nothing to worry about. But look at some of these images [blush]. Better not let mom see this one. On and on the game just continued to expand, both outward and in, right down to what potions looked like and what random items might be lying around a dungeon room. All of these elements to add to the game: weapon reach and speed, psionics, bards...casting [I]times[/I]? Wow. How had I taken so long to enter these golden halls of imagination and creativity?! [I]Clearly[/I], B/E was for CHILDREN who couldn't handle this swirling heady maelstrom of information and options! I was (at all of 9 or 10 y.o.) now, and shall be everafter, an ADVANCED practitioner of the Dungeoneering & Draconic arts! <cue lightning and thunderclaps> BWAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! [/QUOTE]
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