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<blockquote data-quote="Jer" data-source="post: 8686464" data-attributes="member: 19857">You probably have multiple votes from the same person tallied in there though.&nbsp; Folks who voted for all three of them getting triple counted.But if it turns out to be true that Basic was their biggest seller I wouldn't actually be all that surprised. There would have been a lot of people who got a Basic set as a gift or to check it out who never got further than that, and then there would be the folks who went from Basic to either Expert or to Advanced. And a lot of those folks would have gone on to Advanced, so they're in both groups.&nbsp; That means that Basic was working as TSR hoped it would when Holmes wrote his first set of Basic rules - as a lead in to teach people to play the game so they'll buy more D&amp;D.&nbsp; (That after Holmes Basic TSR lost the plot on that angle and made D&amp;D and AD&amp;D two separate game lines and yet Basic still worked that way is a testament to what a good idea the Basic Set was in the first place.&nbsp; And makes it even more shocking that so few game companies even try to do something similar.)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Jer, post: 8686464, member: 19857"] You probably have multiple votes from the same person tallied in there though. Folks who voted for all three of them getting triple counted. But if it turns out to be true that Basic was their biggest seller I wouldn't actually be all that surprised. There would have been a lot of people who got a Basic set as a gift or to check it out who never got further than that, and then there would be the folks who went from Basic to either Expert or to Advanced. And a lot of those folks would have gone on to Advanced, so they're in both groups. That means that Basic was working as TSR hoped it would when Holmes wrote his first set of Basic rules - as a lead in to teach people to play the game so they'll buy more D&D. (That after Holmes Basic TSR lost the plot on that angle and made D&D and AD&D two separate game lines and yet Basic [I]still [/I]worked that way is a testament to [I]what a good idea the Basic Set was in the first place[/I]. And makes it even more shocking that so few game companies even try to do something similar.) [/QUOTE]

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