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<blockquote data-quote="Snarf Zagyg" data-source="post: 8684738" data-attributes="member: 7023840">So on that ... you are correct regarding the insanely high sales of the Red Box. But we need to be careful about what that actually means.Moldvay, and to an even greater extent, Mentzer, were ominpresent. You could not only get them at hobbyist store, or at B. Dalton/Waldenbooks, but they were selling them at toy stores and department stores. They were ... everywhere.So they ended up being gifted all of the time. It was incredibly common to know people who had the set and didn't play. Or who had the set and were playing AD&amp;D (they had enjoyed it and &quot;moved on&quot;). In fact, I can't think of a single AD&amp;D player I knew that didn't also have a copy of the Red Box / Moldvay, either because they had bought it or because some well-meaning friend or relative heard that they were &quot;into D&amp;D&quot; and bought it for them.There were people that played B/X and BECMI exclusively. But the majority of support (from the books, to the modules, to Dragon Magazine) was geared to support AD&amp;D, and IME, the majority of players either played AD&amp;D or were playing a hybrid set of rules (like AD&amp;D with some B/X modules).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Snarf Zagyg, post: 8684738, member: 7023840"] So on that ... you are correct regarding the insanely high sales of the Red Box. But we need to be careful about what that [I]actually means[/I]. Moldvay, and to an even greater extent, Mentzer, were ominpresent. You could not only get them at hobbyist store, or at B. Dalton/Waldenbooks, but they were selling them at toy stores and department stores. They were ... everywhere. So they ended up being gifted all of the time. It was incredibly common to know people who had the set and didn't play. Or who had the set and were playing AD&D (they had enjoyed it and "moved on"). In fact, I can't think of a single AD&D player I knew that didn't also have a copy of the Red Box / Moldvay, either because they had bought it or because some well-meaning friend or relative heard that they were "into D&D" and bought it for them. There were people that played B/X and BECMI exclusively. But the majority of support (from the books, to the modules, to Dragon Magazine) was geared to support AD&D, and IME, the majority of players either played AD&D or were playing a hybrid set of rules (like AD&D with some B/X modules). [/QUOTE]

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