D&D General First official D&D game product you owned?

[Musing Mage]

1983 Red Box all the way.

I actually regret giving all of that original stuff away in my foolish 20s when I felt I was 'done with D&D' (man was that an epic lack of foresight).

Granted, I gave it to the young lad who would eventually be the father of my niece... and he still has it all... so at least it's in the family somewhat.

 

[Laurefindel]

Other - the titan and frost giant D&D action figures, if that counts. Christmas gift at my grand-ma when I was 8, 9 maybe? My brother had the half-orc assassin dude and my cousin had Venger that year.

not that I knew they were D&D-branded toys, or what D&D was for that matter…

and although it’s not D&D per se, honorable menton to those who, like me, had the « prehistoric animals » that inspired the owlbear, rust monster, hook horror (and others I don’t remember). Don’t remember how old I was, nor whether my parents care too much about choking hazards when I was a toddler…

 

[DarkCrisis]

Traded my MtG cards for the 2E core.
Turns out that was really stupid of me.

 

[JEB]

You could've just called this thread "Tell us you're old without telling us you're old".

We're a bunch of oldies, 40%+ of basic set!

Well, looking at the responses...I draw one conclusion from the ones I see thus far...(only 5 voting for anything after 3e as their start)...

We are a bunch of OLD foggy players.

That was my introduction, receiving the 1991 black boxed set as a gift when I was a kid.

Now I'm really wishing the basic sets were split out more... I forgot there were some in 91 and 94 and was picturing the board being older than it might be from the responses.

I didn't really intend this as a stealth demographic poll, but since it might be skewing folks' interpretation of the results, should I add an option for the 1991/1994 Basic sets as a separate thing? While I can't edit the poll options I have, I can apparently add new ones. (Everyone who got the 1991/1994 Basic set would have to change their answer, though.)

Since the Holmes/Moldvey/Mentzer basic sets seem to dominate as a whole, I'm curious how those breakdown.

It does seem like a follow-up poll on specific versions would be interesting, yeah.

 

[JEB]

ironically, with the march of modern technology, you could do that now. All of the loose leaf MC books are available from DTRPG (I think), and if you really wanted to, you could download them all, print them all out to one monster per page (some would be two sided, most wouldn't, depending on if the monster originally took up two pages or not), and with about 5-6 big binders, you could do it all. It would be an enormous expense in download fees, paper, and ink, but you could do it....

I (eventually) managed to gather together all the looseleaf MCs, and they take up (counts) seven binders on my bookshelf. But the idea of a properly alphabetized version is appealing... I think there are a few still missing on DTRPG, however (and a few that are on there apparently have errors).

 

[JEB]

I chose other. I had the Holmes Basic book which could be purchased separately, but not the actual set. I remember being disappointed, because I had asked for the Advanced Player's Handbook and my aunt and uncle got me the wrong book. Later, I came to really like the cover and the example adventure with the pirate cave and was disappointed when the book was stolen along with other gaming stuff and my truck.

Personally, I would count a partial Holmes Basic set as having the Basic set, but choose whatever seems right to you! (And sorry to hear about the theft.)

 

[JEB]

and although it’s not D&D per se, honorable menton to those who, like me, had the « prehistoric animals » that inspired the owlbear, rust monster, hook horror (and others I don’t remember). Don’t remember how old I was, nor whether my parents care too much about choking hazards when I was a toddler…

I had those as well when I was very little (dinosaurs had a place in my heart well before the Fiend Folio), but didn't notice that those weird not-dinosaurs had a D&D connection until the internet told me so...

 

[Cadence]

I didn't really intend this as a stealth demographic poll, but since it might be skewing folks' interpretation of the results, should I add an option for the 1991/1994 Basic sets as a separate thing? While I can't edit the poll options I have, I can apparently add new ones. (Everyone who got the 1991/1994 Basic set would have to change their answer, though.)

That would be cool.

 

[JEB]

That would be cool.

OK, it is done. Everyone who started with the 1991 or 1994 Basic set (@Alzrius and anyone else), please update your vote!

EDIT: @Malmuria, you too!

 

[Alzrius]

OK, it is done. Everyone who started with the 1991 or 1994 Basic set (@Alzrius and anyone else), please update your vote!

Done!