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<blockquote data-quote="CleverNickName" data-source="post: 7952951" data-attributes="member: 50987"><p>That one. That red box right there.</p><p></p><p>That's where it all started for me.</p><p></p><p>A friend of mine had brought his brother's book to school earlier that year and I had played a couple of games, and I was completely obsessed with it. When my 12th birthday rolled around, I begged my mom for a boxed set. And she got it for me! I remember filling in the powder-blue plastic dice with a white crayon, and forever wishing I had used a black one instead. I remember staying up for hours after bedtime each night reading and memorizing the two red booklets. I remember playing through the sample "solo" adventure, and wishing there was a way to strangle Bargle.</p><p></p><p>A few months later, I was running D&D games for my big brother and my little sister. A few months after that, I ran a game for my mom and dad too (the "Satanic Panic" was in full force in Oklahoma around that time, thanks in no small part to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sean_Sellers" target="_blank">Sean Sellers and his defense attorney</a>, and my parents wanted to see what all the hype was about.)</p><p></p><p>It took me months to save up enough of my allowance to buy the next boxed set, only to discover that the stores had stopped carrying it. (Man, I miss going to Waldenbooks and browsing!) I called TSR directly to order it, and learned that it was already out of print. I found a kid at school who was willing to part with his blue boxed set for $10 and my X-Men comic books.</p><p></p><p>I never was able to find the Companion or Masters rules boxes. TSR released the Rules Cyclopedia and then shifted their gears hard toward AD&D 2nd Edition. Of course a middle-schooler like me couldn't afford to just buy all new books like that at $30 a pop...so I had to scour used bookstores, hobby shops, and comic book stores for the occasional cheap, highly-used and battered module or accessory for the books I <em>did </em>have. I did snag a new copy of the "Creature Catalog" and "Test of the Warlords," and a few others, but the selection dried up pretty quickly. By the time I was in high school, both the Basic D&D books and the hobby stores that sold them were long gone.</p><p></p><p>It took me almost 20 years, a college education, a high-paying job, and the advent of the Internet for me to finally collect all four boxed sets of BECM. (I don't really care about the Immortals boxed set; it feels more of a superhero game than a D&D game to me.) It remains the purest, easiest, and best edition of Dungeons & Dragons to me. I'd still be playing it if I could.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="CleverNickName, post: 7952951, member: 50987"] That one. That red box right there. That's where it all started for me. A friend of mine had brought his brother's book to school earlier that year and I had played a couple of games, and I was completely obsessed with it. When my 12th birthday rolled around, I begged my mom for a boxed set. And she got it for me! I remember filling in the powder-blue plastic dice with a white crayon, and forever wishing I had used a black one instead. I remember staying up for hours after bedtime each night reading and memorizing the two red booklets. I remember playing through the sample "solo" adventure, and wishing there was a way to strangle Bargle. A few months later, I was running D&D games for my big brother and my little sister. A few months after that, I ran a game for my mom and dad too (the "Satanic Panic" was in full force in Oklahoma around that time, thanks in no small part to [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sean_Sellers']Sean Sellers and his defense attorney[/URL], and my parents wanted to see what all the hype was about.) It took me months to save up enough of my allowance to buy the next boxed set, only to discover that the stores had stopped carrying it. (Man, I miss going to Waldenbooks and browsing!) I called TSR directly to order it, and learned that it was already out of print. I found a kid at school who was willing to part with his blue boxed set for $10 and my X-Men comic books. I never was able to find the Companion or Masters rules boxes. TSR released the Rules Cyclopedia and then shifted their gears hard toward AD&D 2nd Edition. Of course a middle-schooler like me couldn't afford to just buy all new books like that at $30 a pop...so I had to scour used bookstores, hobby shops, and comic book stores for the occasional cheap, highly-used and battered module or accessory for the books I [I]did [/I]have. I did snag a new copy of the "Creature Catalog" and "Test of the Warlords," and a few others, but the selection dried up pretty quickly. By the time I was in high school, both the Basic D&D books and the hobby stores that sold them were long gone. It took me almost 20 years, a college education, a high-paying job, and the advent of the Internet for me to finally collect all four boxed sets of BECM. (I don't really care about the Immortals boxed set; it feels more of a superhero game than a D&D game to me.) It remains the purest, easiest, and best edition of Dungeons & Dragons to me. I'd still be playing it if I could. [/QUOTE]
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