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<blockquote data-quote="Jer" data-source="post: 8558617" data-attributes="member: 19857">Specifically Basic D&amp;D and AD&amp;D?&nbsp; Only kind of. Lots of folks where I played thought of Basic as a springboard to A&amp;D.&nbsp; They thought the division was Basic then Advanced.B/X and then later BECMI D&amp;D though were completely different animals from AD&amp;D as far as we were all concerned.&nbsp; As a DM I would only run B/X or BECMI (more realistically BEC except in a few cases) because AD&amp;D 1e was a game that I felt was too fiddly to wrap my head around the rules for (it was only later that I realized that many of the DMs who ran AD&amp;D around me got around this problem by ignoring large chunks of rules).&nbsp; Meanwhile I knew of other groups who viewed the BECMI games as lesser versions of AD&amp;D mostly because they were marketed towards ages 12 and up instead of having a demon statue on the cover.&nbsp; (A few ended up in my BECMI games eventually because, well, I was willing to DM and the group of folks willing to DM felt like it got smaller every year back then).It was pretty trivial from a DM perspective to adapt adventures from AD&amp;D to BECMI, so the wall that TSR created between them was more of a chain link fence with holes in it from that side of things.&nbsp; But actually running things at the table felt different enough that even after I tried running 2nd edition for a while I moved back to running BECMI games because I just enjoyed it more.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Jer, post: 8558617, member: 19857"] Specifically Basic D&D and AD&D? Only kind of. Lots of folks where I played thought of Basic as a springboard to A&D. They thought the division was Basic then Advanced. B/X and then later BECMI D&D though were completely different animals from AD&D as far as we were all concerned. As a DM I would only run B/X or BECMI (more realistically BEC except in a few cases) because AD&D 1e was a game that I felt was too fiddly to wrap my head around the rules for (it was only later that I realized that many of the DMs who ran AD&D around me got around this problem by ignoring large chunks of rules). Meanwhile I knew of other groups who viewed the BECMI games as lesser versions of AD&D mostly because they were marketed towards ages 12 and up instead of having a demon statue on the cover. (A few ended up in my BECMI games eventually because, well, I was willing to DM and the group of folks willing to DM felt like it got smaller every year back then). It was pretty trivial from a DM perspective to adapt adventures from AD&D to BECMI, so the wall that TSR created between them was more of a chain link fence with holes in it from that side of things. But actually running things at the table felt different enough that even after I tried running 2nd edition for a while I moved back to running BECMI games because I just enjoyed it more. [/QUOTE]

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