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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cadence" data-source="post: 8688565" data-attributes="member: 6701124">I shouldn't have said B/X was specifically aimed at pre-teens (as opposed to including them), but it seemed open to them when I and my friends were pre-teens.I've never flipped through BECMI.  What do you think it did beyond what B/X did to make it explicitly all ages?  (What separated the changes out as being explicitly more open to the younger group as opposed to the no-experience group?)   Thank you for any insight!Moldvay, et.al. thought about the 10+ group enough that they went to a children's librarian for recommendations for the bibliography - although they have those sections listed as young adult in the book list and not children.   In the fiction side, I'm pretty sure the Black Cauldron books were read in grade school, and the Narnia ones were read in 3rd grade by a ton of people in my elementary school, and a lot of the non-fiction ones look like picture books. I had pulled up the B/X too and the art on most monsters/PCs doesn't seem that different, but I'm not sure why they would.  YMMV, but it feels like randomly throwing in naked monsters is a difference a lot of parents would notice when flipping through the books before buying things for their teens and pre-teens?</blockquote>