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<blockquote data-quote="Xorne" data-source="post: 6350952" data-attributes="member: 61194"><p>Got the chicken pox in 4th grade; spent a week out of school with a baby sitter. Dad got me the Mentzer Red Box (the actual BECMI series was Mentzer) on Monday.</p><p></p><p>Running that solo adventure I was instantly hooked. I DM'd the adventure from the DM Book so many times in my life, starting with my baby sitter and two of his friends.</p><p></p><p>Tuesday my father got me the Expert set. Holy crap this stuff is amazing.</p><p></p><p>At the end of the week I got the 1E Player's Handbook.</p><p></p><p>Yup. That was confusing.</p><p></p><p>I was in the 6th grade before I finally understood they were two different games. I had the whole BECMI collection by then, plus quite a few 1E books, too.</p><p></p><p>I played mostly BECMI until high school, then we pretty much switched to 1E. Towards the end of high school, the Rules Cyclopedia came out, and I switched back to it immediately. In my senior year, I would collect "moves" for our Battlesystem campaign between classes (yeah, passing notes) and then work out how everything turned out. Yeah, BECMI had STAGES of play. Dungeons were what you did at low level--KINGDOMS is what you did at Master.</p><p></p><p>Anyway, to be fair I also played a SHITLOAD of Palladium Games in there... the whole multiverse. So maybe that's why I liked BECMI when I wanted to go back to D&D.</p><p></p><p>I sat out of 2E, mainly because there was little difference and there were SO MANY books published.</p><p></p><p>I came back for 3E and 3.5, and enjoyed them, but got frustrated with feeling like I was doing homework at the table around level 5-8.</p><p></p><p>4E seemed AMAZING at first, but I got bored with it quickly.</p><p></p><p>Now I'm playing 13th Age, and I like it a lot (it's what 4E should have been) but I just got a 3'x4' poster print of Elmore's red dragon from the Red Box D&D, personalized by Elmore... and I find myself reading the Rules Cyclopedia a lot.</p><p></p><p>Then they announce "Basic D&D" for 5E will be free, and it feels like things are coming full circle.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Xorne, post: 6350952, member: 61194"] Got the chicken pox in 4th grade; spent a week out of school with a baby sitter. Dad got me the Mentzer Red Box (the actual BECMI series was Mentzer) on Monday. Running that solo adventure I was instantly hooked. I DM'd the adventure from the DM Book so many times in my life, starting with my baby sitter and two of his friends. Tuesday my father got me the Expert set. Holy crap this stuff is amazing. At the end of the week I got the 1E Player's Handbook. Yup. That was confusing. I was in the 6th grade before I finally understood they were two different games. I had the whole BECMI collection by then, plus quite a few 1E books, too. I played mostly BECMI until high school, then we pretty much switched to 1E. Towards the end of high school, the Rules Cyclopedia came out, and I switched back to it immediately. In my senior year, I would collect "moves" for our Battlesystem campaign between classes (yeah, passing notes) and then work out how everything turned out. Yeah, BECMI had STAGES of play. Dungeons were what you did at low level--KINGDOMS is what you did at Master. Anyway, to be fair I also played a SHITLOAD of Palladium Games in there... the whole multiverse. So maybe that's why I liked BECMI when I wanted to go back to D&D. I sat out of 2E, mainly because there was little difference and there were SO MANY books published. I came back for 3E and 3.5, and enjoyed them, but got frustrated with feeling like I was doing homework at the table around level 5-8. 4E seemed AMAZING at first, but I got bored with it quickly. Now I'm playing 13th Age, and I like it a lot (it's what 4E should have been) but I just got a 3'x4' poster print of Elmore's red dragon from the Red Box D&D, personalized by Elmore... and I find myself reading the Rules Cyclopedia a lot. Then they announce "Basic D&D" for 5E will be free, and it feels like things are coming full circle. [/QUOTE]
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