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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Marandahir" data-source="post: 8755593" data-attributes="member: 6803643">1977 Basic was more intended as the Starter Set for 1977 AD&D with somewhat different rules (note that the 4e Essentials Red Box has somewhat different rules from the 4e Essentials Core Rulebooks, too; this is the precedence for that). It’s MOSTLY compatible with the 1977 AD&D set, which was intended for if you completed the Basic Set and wanted to keep going. The ‘77 Basic Set also shares remarkable compatibility with the ‘74 OD&D rules; both it and 1e are iterative improvements on OD&D, much like 2e was over 1e or Player’s Option and 90s errata revisions over 1989’s core rules.The 1980/81 B/X sets were definitely intended to be successors to the ‘77 Basic, but were incompatible with it, and similarly incompatible with AD&D - that’s why the Expert Box exists, since you’re no longer expected to convert your Basic character to AD&D rules upon hitting the upper level limit.The 1983+ BECMI sets, the 1991 Black Box set, the 1991 Rules Cyclopedia, and the 1994 Classic Set were all essentially errata to the 1980 B/X game, though plenty of things changed. This is more akin to 4e Essentials over 4e than say, 2e over 1e, though even the first two editions of AD&D are relatively compatible.AD&D is not a separate game from 3.0 D&D onward. They just dropped the Advanced because the Basic line had been retired. If anything, Basic was the separate game with its own editions.</blockquote>

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