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<blockquote data-quote="Mannahnin" data-source="post: 9211186" data-attributes="member: 7026594">I was similar.&nbsp; I started with Mentzer Basic and Cook Expert, and continued acquiring Mentzer boxed sets, and while I did start acquiring AD&amp;D books (starting with Unearthed Arcana or Oriental Adventures, which were both new at the time), after some initial confusion, and with the help of Dragon Magazine, I realized that they were different games.&nbsp; I never really played 1E except at a couple of conventions, though.&nbsp; When 2nd ed came out that was a fresh start and we left BECMI behind.&nbsp; Certainly the party line from TSR was that they were different games, and as a young gamer I took that seriously.Yes, I think it's really hard to say how many people mixed them and how many kept them distinct.&nbsp; My personal recollection was that they were understood back in the 80s to be different and not entirely compatible, but of course experienced and confident gamers would have had no problem mixing them. And others would have done so out of necessity/incomprehension of the obfuscatory 1E rulebooks.&nbsp;Learning that people mashed them up and simplified AD&amp;D was something I first encountered in the OSR, though it made perfect sense,</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mannahnin, post: 9211186, member: 7026594"] I was similar. I started with Mentzer Basic and Cook Expert, and continued acquiring Mentzer boxed sets, and while I did start acquiring AD&D books (starting with Unearthed Arcana or Oriental Adventures, which were both new at the time), after some initial confusion, and with the help of Dragon Magazine, I realized that they were different games. I never really played 1E except at a couple of conventions, though. When 2nd ed came out that was a fresh start and we left BECMI behind. Certainly the party line from TSR was that they were different games, and as a young gamer I took that seriously. Yes, I think it's really hard to say how many people mixed them and how many kept them distinct. My personal recollection was that they were understood back in the 80s to be different and not entirely compatible, but of course experienced and confident gamers would have had no problem mixing them. And others would have done so out of necessity/incomprehension of the obfuscatory 1E rulebooks. Learning that people mashed them up and simplified AD&D was something I first encountered in the OSR, though it made perfect sense, [/QUOTE]

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