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<blockquote data-quote="Evaniel" data-source="post: 9676697" data-attributes="member: 7037705">I came in with Mentzer's Basic in junior high. I played a few brief sessions of 1e before buying the 2e books that had just been released that year. 2e is really where I made my gaming bones, but I keep coming back to B/X (most recently in the form of OSE w/ the Advanced Fantasy Rules). It just hits the sweet spot for me. I'm sure nostalgia is part of it, but I never actually played it back in the day. It does what I want basic to do far better than Mentzer's set (for which I do have a lot of nostalgia).The concision is part of it, and I've actually come to appreciate some of the quirkier bits (like clerics getting 3rd and 4th level spells at once). The aesthetics (like the halfling picture above) are certainly part of it, too. I LOVE the art in the Mentzer set, but man, the art in B/X just screams the particular milieu of D&amp;D--weird, pulp fantasy--to me in the way that the somewhat more generic fantasy art of Elmore et al. (which was definitely the house style when I was growing up) just doesn't.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Evaniel, post: 9676697, member: 7037705"] I came in with Mentzer's Basic in junior high. I played a few brief sessions of 1e before buying the 2e books that had just been released that year. 2e is really where I made my gaming bones, but I keep coming back to B/X (most recently in the form of OSE w/ the Advanced Fantasy Rules). It just hits the sweet spot for me. I'm sure nostalgia is part of it, but I never actually played it back in the day. It does what I want basic to do far better than Mentzer's set (for which I do have a lot of nostalgia). The concision is part of it, and I've actually come to appreciate some of the quirkier bits (like clerics getting 3rd and 4th level spells at once). The aesthetics (like the halfling picture above) are certainly part of it, too. I LOVE the art in the Mentzer set, but man, the art in B/X just screams the particular milieu of D&D--weird, pulp fantasy--to me in the way that the somewhat more generic fantasy art of Elmore et al. (which was definitely the house style when I was growing up) just doesn't. [/QUOTE]

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