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<blockquote data-quote="Bedrockgames" data-source="post: 8248512" data-attributes="member: 85555">I don't know what the sales number were, but in both California and Massachusetts (the two places I lived during the time) pretty much everyone I knew played AD&amp;D. My first D&amp;D game used the basic rules. After that all I saw for the most part was AD&amp;D. By 2E, AD&amp;D was all I saw. We all had the red box, and most people bought it when they first started to understand the game, but almost all the Dungeons and Dragons campaigns I was in were using AD&amp;D. I was in one campaign where the GM preferred D&amp;D rules cyclopedia, which was the only non-AD&amp;D campaign I remember being in. And I do remember being in one game where someone was using the expert book to run things (but it was only one session using a module). In terms of availability, here the whole TSR catalog was readily available. When I started you could buy any D&amp;D book in most hobby shops. Sometime around 1990 I noticed book stores had all the TSR books (both the novels and the game books). Both AD&amp;D and D&amp;D were available. The various 2E worlds. All the novels. All the supplements. I don't think I ever had to order anything from a catalog unless it wasn't D&amp;D.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Bedrockgames, post: 8248512, member: 85555"] I don't know what the sales number were, but in both California and Massachusetts (the two places I lived during the time) pretty much everyone I knew played AD&D. My first D&D game used the basic rules. After that all I saw for the most part was AD&D. By 2E, AD&D was all I saw. We all had the red box, and most people bought it when they first started to understand the game, but almost all the Dungeons and Dragons campaigns I was in were using AD&D. I was in one campaign where the GM preferred D&D rules cyclopedia, which was the only non-AD&D campaign I remember being in. And I do remember being in one game where someone was using the expert book to run things (but it was only one session using a module). In terms of availability, here the whole TSR catalog was readily available. When I started you could buy any D&D book in most hobby shops. Sometime around 1990 I noticed book stores had all the TSR books (both the novels and the game books). Both AD&D and D&D were available. The various 2E worlds. All the novels. All the supplements. I don't think I ever had to order anything from a catalog unless it wasn't D&D. [/QUOTE]

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