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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cergorach" data-source="post: 9852797" data-attributes="member: 725">I wonder... Are you an American or from somewhere else?D&D was popular in the 80s across all of Europe that wasn't the Soviet Union, maybe not in the same way as it was in the US, but there were translations all over the place. But it had competition from other pnp RPGs games as well... Translations of the Basic D&D Red Box were done in many languages, I know of the German one and the Dutch one. Especially the Dutch one (which I still own) was a minor miracle, at the time there were not even 15 million Dutch citizens (but there were less then 6 million Flemish Belgians as well that would speak Dutch as their main language). And I seem to remember seeing some French D&D stuff as a child (when going there on vacation). And that's besides folks just preferring the English versions of the D&D books (like myself), over the native language products.Some interesting German D&D history: <a href="https://www.acaeum.com/forum/viewtopic.php?cache=1&f=1&t=16170" target="_blank">The history of german D&D/AD&D as I know it • Collecting General •  The Acaeum</a>Back in the 80s there were international distributors that bought products in the US and sold them all over the place. And of course vice versa.</blockquote>