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

[Man in the Funny Hat]

Technically it was the Holmes rulebook - and I still have it - but that was photocopied at his dad's office by the guy who owned it so we could play. The first product I otherwise obtained was the AD&D Players Handbook (1E). That one I don't have anymore because when 2E came out I thought I wasn't ever going to want any of my 1E stuff anymore and sold it off. I have long since obtained replacements for my 1E books at some expense and won't make that mistake again.

 

[UngainlyTitan]

The 83 Red Box Basic, I do not still have it but I do have a copy I picked up years later at a games auction. Should still have a copy of Keep on the Borderland and the Palace of the Silver Princess knocking about the house.

 

[mcmillan]

First played with 3.5, but used books my roommate owned. When I started playing a game of 4e I picked up a copy of the phb. I can't remember if I owned the arcane power supplement before I started dming and got the rest of the core trio

 

[John Quixote]

First played on a friend's copy of the black box. First owned an AD&D 2E PHB (revised black-cover edition). Within a year, my personal collection had grown to encompass four more rulebooks: a black-cover 2E DMG, the Complete Ninja's Handbook, a Trampier-cover 1E PHB, and 1E Oriental Adventures.

 

[Froderik]

Bought the Holmes Basic D&D box back in '81 (just before the Moldvay set found its way to my FLGS) after a friend introduced me to D&D. Collected a ton of Basic and AD&D stuff until '87, life happened, sold almost everything about 25 years ago. My original Holmes box, Gamma World (1e) box, T1, core AD&D (1e) books, a box full of miniatures, and a handful of dice survived the purge. Rediscovering this hobby during the pandemic has been expensive, but we are in a golden age. There is so much great stuff getting produced right now!

 

[Hriston]

I voted Basic Set, as my older brother gave me his copy of the 1977 Holmes Basic when he began to acquire the AD&D core books. There was also a copy of Keep on the Borderlands with the set, which I still own, but I think he retained that for a while.

 

[overgeeked]

I started playing D&D with the B/X sets my brother owned. The first D&D book I ever owned was the AD&D Player’s Handbook.

 

[Alzrius]

If you first owned the 1991 or 1994 revisions of the D&D Basic set ("The New Easy-to-Master Dungeons & Dragons Game" and "The Classic Dungeons & Dragons Game"), those are counted with the other three versions of the Basic set (1977/1981/1983).

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

 

[Cadence]

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.

 

[J-H]

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