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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Orius" data-source="post: 2231042" data-attributes="member: 8863">Not really.The original 3 books published in 1974 was the beginning of the game. Several booklets followed and expanded upon that material, as well as material that appeared in magazines like The Strategic Review and Dragon (then known as The Dragon).  After 3 or 4 years, the division between Basic and Advanced appeared.  The original rules were revised and published as Basic D&D, while co-creator of the game Gary Gygax introduced AD&D as an expansion of the original rules.  At first the differences between the two probably weren't significant, but in the early 80's another revision of the Basic game appeared, and at that point the 2 games started to diverge.Basic D&D (published as simply D&D) consisted of 5 sets of rules that covered gameplay from 1st to 36th level, and those rules were compiled in the Rules Encyclopedia published in 1989.  However, as AD&D became more popular, D&D eventually ended up going OOP.  An introductory set of rules was published in 1998 and 1999 as "D&D Fast Play Rules", but this was not related to the old Basic game, but was rather a simplified version of 2e rules meant for beginners.AD&D remained relatively unchanged until 1989, although a series of hardcovers gradually expanded the rules.  In 1989, the second edition of AD&D was published which revised the and consolidated the 1e rules.  Like 1e, 2e existed relatively unchanged for about a decade when 3e was released.  Although the the game is now published as simply "D&D" (because the distinctions between the old Basic game and AD&D no longer exist), it's based on the AD&D ruleset, thus the term "Third Edition).</blockquote>

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