Your introduction to D&D: what order of books?

[crazy_monkey1956]

D&D Cartoon and Choose Your Own Adventure Books
Dragonlance Chronicles and Legends novels.
Forgotten Realms novels (Icewind Dale trilogy, Moonshae trilogy, and a few others)
D&D Basic Set (Red Box)
Knight of the Living Dead (FR solo adventure/book thingy)
Midnight on Dagger Alley (AD&D1 solo adventure with the red revealer thingy...I didn't understand the rules at the time)
AD&D 2E PHB
Quagmire adventure (X6 I think)
D&D Basic Set (Big Black Box)
Spelljammer boxed set (second hand and in sorry shape)
AD&D1 MM1 (used)
AD&D1 MM2 (used)
AD&D 2E MM
D&D Rules Cyclopedia
Wrath of the Immortals
PC4: Nighthowlers

The red box I got in 1988 and the collection slowly built from there until 1994, when I graduated from high school and joined the military, where I spent most of my paychecks on game books.

 

[Markn]

Basic D&D
B2 Keep on the Borderlands
Expert D&D
Companion D&D
AD&D Monster Manual
AD&D Player's Handbook
AD&D Dungeon Master's Guide

Of course, at the time, I was too young to understand that AD&D and D&D were different games so I just mixed and matched.

 

[Nikosandros]

I began with the Italian translation of the "Mentzer" basic box. The first adventure I played was B2 (besides the solo adventure in the box) and the first one I ran was B3 (green cover). After a few months I plunged into AD&D... it was very confusing at first, but somehow I managed to make some sense of it...

Before D&D I had played some Fighting Fantasy gamebooks and several text adventures (nowadays called Interactive Fiction) on a computer .

 

[billd91]

It's probably about this order:

Holmes Basic D&D
B2 Keep on the Borderlands
AD&D Players Handbook
AD&D Dungeon Masters Guide
AD&D Monster Manual
G1-3 Against the Giants

 

[Abciximab]

Mt first experience was with new neighbors that intorduced me to AD&D via the Players Handbook. I enjoyed it so much I immediately ran out out and bought the Expert Set with Isle of Dread not realizing it was a different ruleset and completely bypassing the Basic Set all together...

Then it was mostly AD&D, DMG, MM1, Fiend Folio, MM II...

 

[the Jester]

I first saw a collection of 1e books and modules, including the 1e Fiend Folio.

Next was the Red Box Basic Set, including Keep on the Borderlands.

 

[El Mahdi]

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[Dragonbait]

I played D&D for about 5 minutes when I was about 5 years old and I was immediately intrigued. Unfortunately the second time I played was 11 years later.

D&D Red Box
D&D Cartoon
AD&D 1E Monster Manual 2
AD&D 2ed Monstrous Compendium
Finder's Stone Trilogy novels
Spelljammer saga novels
AD&D 2ed Player's Handbook
AD&D 2ed Dungeon Master's Guide

It was around this time that I actually started playing for the first time.

 

[Plane Sailing]

Greyhawk
OD&D
Strategic Review (Ranger & Illusionist issues)
Blackmoor
Eldritch Wizardry
1e MM
1e PHB
1e DMG

 

[DaveyJones]

Chainmail ...


a few years later OD&D
then Holmes 2edD&D
Holmes 3edD&D
then 1edADnD MM, PHB, DMG