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<blockquote data-quote="wingsandsword" data-source="post: 3362559" data-attributes="member: 14159">I'm one of those people who picked up gaming with them.&nbsp; I know at least one other person like that too.Those box sets had one notable advantage, they were sold with board games in toy stores, not in a specific section of a bookstore (often an out-of-the-way part at that).&nbsp; That opened them up to people who might not find it since they'd have to go looking for it.The biggest problem with those box set basic editions was that most of the D&amp;D product line at the time was geared towards AD&amp;D (which I think most of the player base was too), and if you learned Basic D&amp;D with that box set, if you went and tried to find an existing D&amp;D group to play with, you'd find, like I did, all kinds of differences between what you know as D&amp;D and what they knew as D&amp;D.&nbsp; It more goes to the general problem they had with supporting two incompatible but separate product lines both under the D&amp;D name.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="wingsandsword, post: 3362559, member: 14159"] I'm one of those people who picked up gaming with them. I know at least one other person like that too. Those box sets had one notable advantage, they were sold with board games in toy stores, not in a specific section of a bookstore (often an out-of-the-way part at that). That opened them up to people who might not find it since they'd have to go looking for it. The biggest problem with those box set basic editions was that most of the D&D product line at the time was geared towards AD&D (which I think most of the player base was too), and if you learned Basic D&D with that box set, if you went and tried to find an existing D&D group to play with, you'd find, like I did, all kinds of differences between what you know as D&D and what they knew as D&D. It more goes to the general problem they had with supporting two incompatible but separate product lines both under the D&D name. [/QUOTE]

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