Which Basic?

[juboke]

Moldvay/Cook (B/X) 1981.

Though I play AD&D or 3e I have always thought that this was (is) the best version of D&D. It feels most like a role-playing game and not just a set of rules.

 

[IronWolf]

Judging from the poll it looks like maybe Wizards should have chosen to go retro with Moldvay!

 

[Joshua Randall]

How many people (other than me) actually put the BECMI books into a 3-ring binder? (They were already punched IIRC.)

Of course the downside to putting things into a 3-ring binder is that after a while, the metal of the binder rings tends to cut through the paper, which is what happened with my Basic and Expert books. *frown*

There needs to be a description on the Acaeum below Fair to describe books like mine.

How about -- Crappy ?

 

[possum]

I started off with 3rd edition a little while after it came out, but I did find a lot of BECMI stuff at a garage sale once. It came unboxed and likely had different iterations together. It is the Mentzer set, though. Judging from Acaeum, the first printing of that set. Same with the Expert and Companion sets. No Master or Immortals rules, though. Interestingly enough, the garage sale lot came with B2, X1 and X9, as well as a DM screen with "Challenger Series" on it.

So, really looking at them, I guess it's not so "hodge-podge" after all. Mentzer for my first set of rules, then.

 

[jeffh]

I said Mentzer, but it was actually the Mentzer basic followed closely by the Cook expert. I think you can nail down when I started to within a few months based on that.

 

[Roland55]

Is this a poll about the version you STARTED with, or the one you PLAYED THE MOST?

I'm asking because my answer would be quite different, depending on the basic thread assumption.

I've assumed the former. It's OD&D for this old fellow.

 

[drothgery]

Started with AD&D2e. Surprised the ADD/3e or later line isn't more popular, really; Basic was mostly dead in the 1990s, and all dead after WotC bought TSR and launched 3e.

 

[Uder]

How many people (other than me) actually put the BECMI books into a 3-ring binder? (They were already punched IIRC.)

Of course the downside to putting things into a 3-ring binder is that after a while, the metal of the binder rings tends to cut through the paper, which is what happened with my Basic and Expert books. *frown*

There needs to be a description on the Acaeum below Fair to describe books like mine.

How about -- Crappy ?

Loved

 

[IronWolf]

How many people (other than me) actually put the BECMI books into a 3-ring binder? (They were already punched IIRC.)

Of course the downside to putting things into a 3-ring binder is that after a while, the metal of the binder rings tends to cut through the paper, which is what happened with my Basic and Expert books. *frown*

I did this for awhile with mine. I seem to recall that they didn't open well though since they were attached pages, so I think I stopped doing it after a short time. Even from that short time, mine does show some abuse where the holes were punched.

 

[Theo R Cwithin]

I put Mentzer BECMI... although technically what I played as a kid was Mentzer Basic with Moldvay/Cook eXpert. It was several years before I fully realized I had a mismatched set! Meh, I managed to have fun despite that.