OD&D Editon Experience: Did/Do you Play B/X? How Was/Is It?

[lowkey13]

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[CleverNickName]

@lowkey13 is correct; the differences are minor but they are still there. (And the Immortal rules are just absurd.)

When I was putting this little nostalgia survey together, I had to make a choice. I could lump all four of the "basic D&D" versions together, and have readers ask "why weren't they kept separate?", or I could separate them all out individually and have readers ask "why didn't you just lump them all together?"

I went with the second option because I thought it would encourage more discussion and reminiscence of the Good Old Days of Gaming. The differences between the editions might be small, but I feel they are worth talking about and remembering. And, well, I wanted to give each "edition" of the game a fair shake, as far as survey results go...equal time in the spotlight, equal treatment in the timeline, all that.

So here we are.

 

[Oldtimer]

Good memories of BECMI. Played it, translated it into swedish, published it, and lost all my savings. Good times.

 

[Mark Hope]

The best edition of D&D, no contest. I'm actually running a hacked 2e at the moment, but would run a BX game in a heartbeat.

 

[Campbell]

What separates Moldvay Basic apart is Moldvay's writing. The clarity and quality of instruction contained within the text is some of the best in the industry. It's a game about something that tells you exactly how to play and run it.

 

[greylurk]

I DMed it a few times. A friend of mine had a copy his brother left behind when he went off to college, and we used it to run the 1e Forgotten Realms box that I had gotten for Christmas until we could save up to buy the 2e phb

It was a fine little game. Though I didn't have much to compare it to at the time.

 

[Votan]

I really liked it as a youngster and it played quite differently than more modern editions. I found it rather faster moving and much more suited to a teenager's mind than today's tomes. I definitely have fond memories and maybe would go back, one day, when we are not all in isolation.

 

[CleverNickName]

One day, I'll be able to play this version and see how it compares to my beloved BECMI. (I imagine I'll notice very few differences.)

 

[Scrivener of Doom]

What separates Moldvay Basic apart is Moldvay's writing. The clarity and quality of instruction contained within the text is some of the best in the industry. It's a game about something that tells you exactly how to play and run it.

It's a shame that Gary wasn't forced out earlier so that, perhaps, Tom Moldvay and a competent editor could have written AD&D.

 

[atanakar]

It's a shame that Gary wasn't forced out earlier so that, perhaps, Tom Moldvay and a competent editor could have written AD&D.

That is a very insensitive thing to write. TSR was the man's life work and he was thrown out with hostile take over.