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<blockquote data-quote="cavalier973" data-source="post: 9657446" data-attributes="member: 91595">It makes most sense that it was the classic set, but the thing I am thinking of is a smaller box, almost like it only contained the bare minimum of books, possibly a set of dice, and I am positive that it was Advanced D&amp;D, not basic. The box was, I guess, about 9x6 inches, and about an inch or two thick. Maybe a little larger, but not much. I thought it was a box containing a computer game, at first.It seems like it had a blurb, something about “here are the rules for the advanced D&amp;D game that you’ve heard so much about.” At least, that’s how I remember it, because, since I did not play any sort of D&amp;D at the time, and only had the barest knowledge of the D&amp;D product at all, the “Advanced” part was something of a revelation to me. “Oh; I wonder what it means that it’s ‘advanced’.”(The first time I remember hearing about D&amp;D at all was commercials for the Mattel electronic handheld game, which made it exceptionally confusing when people were saying that people playing D&amp;D were getting into bad trouble)I’m probably getting my memories mixed up. It’s possible that I am thinking of the 2e Adventure Game, but that just seems rather late to me, because by 1999, I was a little more familiar with the game, and knew that there were multiple editions.It’s also, again, possible that I’m thinking of the Basic game that sacrosanct mentions, and am just remembering the box as smaller than it really was. It was in a bargain bin, as I recall.Additionally, I remember that I was following my mom through the store, picked it up and showed it to her, and she just said, “No”, and moved on. So, I was young enough to not have money to buy it for myself. This would have been late eighties, very early nineties.I was hoping that there was some sort of AD&amp;D starter set that I could add to my collection.I was thinking it might have been a late 1e product, but it is more likely that it was an early 2e product.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="cavalier973, post: 9657446, member: 91595"] It makes most sense that it was the classic set, but the thing I am thinking of is a smaller box, almost like it only contained the bare minimum of books, possibly a set of dice, and I am positive that it was Advanced D&D, not basic. The box was, I guess, about 9x6 inches, and about an inch or two thick. Maybe a little larger, but not much. I thought it was a box containing a computer game, at first. It seems like it had a blurb, something about “here are the rules for the advanced D&D game that you’ve heard so much about.” At least, that’s how I remember it, because, since I did not play any sort of D&D at the time, and only had the barest knowledge of the D&D product at all, the “Advanced” part was something of a revelation to me. “Oh; I wonder what it means that it’s ‘advanced’.” (The first time I remember hearing about D&D [I]at all[/I] was commercials for the Mattel electronic handheld game, which made it exceptionally confusing when people were saying that people playing D&D were getting into bad trouble) I’m probably getting my memories mixed up. It’s possible that I am thinking of the 2e Adventure Game, but that just seems rather late to me, because by 1999, I was a little more familiar with the game, and knew that there were multiple editions. It’s also, again, possible that I’m thinking of the Basic game that sacrosanct mentions, and am just remembering the box as smaller than it really was. It was in a bargain bin, as I recall. Additionally, I remember that I was following my mom through the store, picked it up and showed it to her, and she just said, “No”, and moved on. So, I was young enough to not have money to buy it for myself. This would have been late eighties, very early nineties. I was hoping that there was some sort of AD&D starter set that I could add to my collection. I was thinking it might have been a late 1e product, but it is more likely that it was an early 2e product. [/QUOTE]

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