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<blockquote data-quote="Dire Bare" data-source="post: 4617564" data-attributes="member: 18182">I was introduced to D&amp;D by just looking over the AD&amp;D monster manuals at a friend's house, who told me that the game itself was too complex, so he and a buddy just told stories together using the MM as inspiration.So, when I convinced my mom to get me my first D&amp;D set, I naturally went for the &quot;not-advanced&quot; version because I naturally assumed they were the same game and you had to start with the Basic Set and then move up to AD&amp;D when you were ready.When I found out that they were essentially two very similar but different games, that basically had two close-but-different rulesets to do essentially the same thing . . . I got pissed off!!!&nbsp; I thought, &quot;I'm not falling for this stupid crap!&quot;&nbsp; And from that point on until college I would only purchase and collect BECMI D&amp;D, nothing with an &quot;A&quot; in front of that D&amp;D.&nbsp; I felt so smart and superior to all those fools who got suckered into &quot;advanced&quot; D&amp;D!Then Dragonlance happened, and the wave after wave of awesome AD&amp;D campaign settings that started to make my poor Mystara look tawdry in comparison . . . then Mystara was &quot;graduated&quot; to AD&amp;D 2e right around the time Planescape was going strong . . . and I finally became an AD&amp;D 2e addict!Then 3rd Edition brought everything together for me, and all was good. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Dire Bare, post: 4617564, member: 18182"] I was introduced to D&D by just looking over the AD&D monster manuals at a friend's house, who told me that the game itself was too complex, so he and a buddy just told stories together using the MM as inspiration. So, when I convinced my mom to get me my first D&D set, I naturally went for the "not-advanced" version because I naturally assumed they were the same game and you had to start with the Basic Set and then move up to AD&D when you were ready. When I found out that they were essentially two very similar but different games, that basically had two close-but-different rulesets to do essentially the same thing . . . I got pissed off!!! I thought, "I'm not falling for this stupid crap!" And from that point on until college I would only purchase and collect BECMI D&D, nothing with an "A" in front of that D&D. I felt so smart and superior to all those fools who got suckered into "advanced" D&D! Then Dragonlance happened, and the wave after wave of awesome AD&D campaign settings that started to make my poor Mystara look tawdry in comparison . . . then Mystara was "graduated" to AD&D 2e right around the time Planescape was going strong . . . and I finally became an AD&D 2e addict! Then 3rd Edition brought everything together for me, and all was good. :) [/QUOTE]

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