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<blockquote data-quote="AbdulAlhazred" data-source="post: 8684842" data-attributes="member: 82106"><p>Yeah, its funny, back then we didn't even account Basic in its various forms as a game that people actually PLAYED. I bought a copy of Holmes when it came out, because you couldn't even find copies of the LBBs (it was always sold out) and that was the only way to get some rules that we could run our own games with. However, as soon as the MM and PHB came out, we just grafted it onto our existing play of Holmes (which we freely mixed with original D&amp;D stuff as well). I mean, you could play a Basic module or even drag a Basic character into AD&amp;D and it just 'kinda worked'. I think MOST people that got started with Red Box ended up playing at least some AD&amp;D, and there seemed to be little perception in the early '80s of those being really different games. B/X was mostly seen as an improved starter set vs Holmes (which I think was out of print by then) and it wasn't until BECMI came out that I recall people starting to think of them as really separate games.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="AbdulAlhazred, post: 8684842, member: 82106"] Yeah, its funny, back then we didn't even account Basic in its various forms as a game that people actually PLAYED. I bought a copy of Holmes when it came out, because you couldn't even find copies of the LBBs (it was always sold out) and that was the only way to get some rules that we could run our own games with. However, as soon as the MM and PHB came out, we just grafted it onto our existing play of Holmes (which we freely mixed with original D&D stuff as well). I mean, you could play a Basic module or even drag a Basic character into AD&D and it just 'kinda worked'. I think MOST people that got started with Red Box ended up playing at least some AD&D, and there seemed to be little perception in the early '80s of those being really different games. B/X was mostly seen as an improved starter set vs Holmes (which I think was out of print by then) and it wasn't until BECMI came out that I recall people starting to think of them as really separate games. [/QUOTE]

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