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<blockquote data-quote="Clint_L" data-source="post: 9064484" data-attributes="member: 7035894">I would take Basic's numbers with a grain of salt. Almost everyone I played with had Basic because it was the game a relative bought you when they heard that you were into D&amp;D; it used to sell for ten or twenty bucks at toy stores (I still have my yellow dice, with the numbers filled in by green crayon). But none of us played it. That's not saying no one did; some people swear by it to this day. But it was widely viewed as &quot;kiddie&quot; D&amp;D and it was barely supported - there were virtually no articles in Dragon magazine, modules, etc. It was its own corner of the D&amp;D world.As evidence, note the steep drop-off in sales from Basic to Expert, let alone the subsequent rule sets; that gives you an idea of how many folks were sticking with basic and making campaigns out of it. The idea behind Basic was that you would start with it and then &quot;graduate&quot; to AD&amp;D. Though in retrospect, Basic might be the better designed game in a great many respects.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Clint_L, post: 9064484, member: 7035894"] I would take Basic's numbers with a grain of salt. Almost everyone I played with had Basic because it was the game a relative bought you when they heard that you were into D&D; it used to sell for ten or twenty bucks at toy stores (I still have my yellow dice, with the numbers filled in by green crayon). But none of us played it. That's not saying no one did; some people swear by it to this day. But it was widely viewed as "kiddie" D&D and it was barely supported - there were virtually no articles in Dragon magazine, modules, etc. It was its own corner of the D&D world. As evidence, note the [I]steep[/I] drop-off in sales from Basic to Expert, let alone the subsequent rule sets; that gives you an idea of how many folks were sticking with basic and making campaigns out of it. The idea behind Basic was that you would start with it and then "graduate" to AD&D. Though in retrospect, Basic might be the better designed game in a great many respects. [/QUOTE]

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