If you started playing D&D with the Basic D&D rules, which edition was it?

[kengar]

I started with Holmes, but I prefer Moldvay (IMO, the best edition of D&D, Basic or otherwise).

 

[National Acrobat]

Holmes

I started with the Holmes Edition. That old picture with the dragon on the cover just sucked my friends and I into the world of gaming. We were all around 10-11 years old back then.

 

[Nifft]

I started with the Holmes Edition. That old picture with the dragon on the cover just sucked my friends and I into the world of gaming. We were all around 10-11 years old back then.

Likewise, and likewise, though I think the first version that I actually owned was Moldvay.

-- N

 

[Taluron]

Holmes, apparently (never called it that myself!).

Holmes here as well.

I also never called it that. I've always refered to it (and heard it refered to) as the 'blue-box' set.

edit:

As a side note, I think we played basic for about 3 months then switched to AD&D and never played 'D&D' again until 3rd came out.

 

[JediSoth]

I started playing with the Moldvay edition, but the first set I personally owned was the Mentzer edition. I think I still have the books around here somewhere...ahh...happy times.

JediSoth

 

[DragonLancer]

I started with the red box Mentzer edition. Got all of them up to and including the Immortals gold box, and then moved onto 1st ed AD&D for a couple years till 2nd ed came out.

 

[Henry]

Are you sure about the date for the Moldvay set? I thought I started playing in 1979 (maybe it was 1980, but no later for sure) and I started with the Moldvay set.

Thornir, you may have the same "misremembering bug" that I do - I was 10 years old when I started with Moldvay in 1981, but swore for years it was released in 1980, until someone did the digging.

 

[Henry]

Morgan Ironwolf, why every 10 year old boy should have a copy of the Moldvay Basic D&D book!

I always imagined her as a redhead, myself.

 

[Sir Trent]

Mentzer

The Mentzer box was my start, I saw it in a magazine and asked for it for my birthday. And then, more than twenty years later, I had the opportunity to visit Larry Elmore in his studio, and the original painting for that box cover was the first thing I saw. That was a unique experience.

 

[Mercule]

I started playing with the Moldvey set, but the Menzer (red) box was the first one I owned, personally.