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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Orius" data-source="post: 1533081" data-attributes="member: 8863">Oh, I'm well aware of the existance of Basic D&D.  There was the original Basic D&D, the Basic to Immortal sets, and the Rules Cyclopedia.  I started with the black box, one of the last Basic sets released, it had rules from levels 1-5, a set of dice and a bunch of stand up cardboard counters, instead of minis.   I'm talking more specifically about intro sets released after the Basic rules went out of print, sets meant to be intros to AD&D 2e, not separate rules.Also, my guess is that they're calling this the Basic Rules, out of homage to the old Basic sets, just like many of the hardcovers have the same names as classic 1e (and some 2e) books.Yeah, I know Diaglo didn't start with Basic D&D, he goes all the way back to the original rules that were released in 1974, yadda yadda yadda.  <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    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>