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<blockquote data-quote="atanakar" data-source="post: 7949043" data-attributes="member: 65762">Nostalgia is strong with this one!It's the first version we actively played and I was the first DM. It was very lethal which we didn't mind at first. But looking at the XP tables in the Expert set made us realized we needed to make some rule changes to raise survivability. We didn't have 8-10 players. We had 4-5 and hiring henchmen to die was a thing. We grew tired of it fast - not to mention it felt really evil. So we decided death occurred only at -10.I believe we played B/X for the winter and spring of 1981. We switched to AD&amp;D during the summer when we had money because of summer jobs.I have fond memories of that period because we were discovering RPGs and made long time friends but I wasn't impressed one way or another with B/X. Like I said in the other threads. I tried playing it again in 2019 but it just does not work for me. The turn sequence is too much like a wargame. If 5e didn't exist, maybe, I would play a pre-WoTC edition but not B/X. I was happy to leave Race-as-class behind in 1981 and don't want that in 2020.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="atanakar, post: 7949043, member: 65762"] [B]Nostalgia is strong with this one![/B] It's the first version we actively played and I was the first DM. It was very lethal which we didn't mind at first. But looking at the XP tables in the Expert set made us realized we needed to make some rule changes to raise survivability. We didn't have 8-10 players. We had 4-5 and hiring henchmen to die was a thing. We grew tired of it fast - not to mention it felt really evil. So we decided death occurred only at -10. I believe we played B/X for the winter and spring of 1981. We switched to AD&D during the summer when we had money because of summer jobs. I have fond memories of that period because we were discovering RPGs and made long time friends but I wasn't impressed one way or another with B/X. Like I said in the other threads. I tried playing it again in 2019 but it just does not work for me. The turn sequence is too much like a wargame. If 5e didn't exist, maybe, I would play a pre-WoTC edition but not B/X. I was happy to leave Race-as-class behind in 1981 and don't want that in 2020. [/QUOTE]

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