The Dungeons and Dragons Basic Rules Set !! When my friends introduced D&D to me this was, of course, the first set I got. A trek to the Como Mall Waldenbooks (after I collected from my paper route to get some cash :) and I brought this home for study.
Books, dice...all in a box!
That cover art is EPIC !!
Even the back of the box brings it !!
I remember staring at these guys trying to decide which character to create first!
I LOVE THAT DRAWING !!!
Maps and graph paper.....working in Engineering has me around alot of graph paper and because of this I have to control an urge to map out a quick dungeon on a stray piece !!!
I remember making my Dad take the character sheet to work and photocopy about a thousand of em !!
The power that only a DM can have !!!!!
I don't get to play much anymore but all this reminiscing is making me want to find out some players and get back in the saddle :) I must enter that dungeon again !!!!
Oh the memories that this brings back!
ReplyDeleteI know ! I'll be posting all the boxed sets over the next few weeks! Looking through these sets are like taking a trip back in time :)
DeleteYep, good times there. Back in the day when Elf was a class and not a race. I don't know what happened to my books but I still have my original dice.
ReplyDeleteI remember the day they had different dice packages at Waldenbooks and I shed those plain blues for some funky ones !!
DeleteSuh-weeeeeeeeeeeeeet! Wasn't this back when you had to write the numbers yourself on the dice? Or is my memory faulty?
ReplyDeleteThe numbers were carved into the dice but you had to scribble on them with a white crayon (included!) to make them stand out.
DeleteYep! and when I got multicolor and then crystal dice I figured out how cool it looked if you just used black or another color !! ....I was a little slow on the uptake when I was young :)
DeleteOh man, Good stuff. this is actually my favorite edition. I still play it, (Actually I prefer the Moldvey edition that came out just before this one but they are almost identical) D&D has never been this simple or this fun. the Rules cyclopedia is a must if you are playing this edition.
ReplyDeleteWatch out cause I have em all and will be posting them over time!! Maybe I'll put that one up next :)
DeletePlayed this books in Russia in 89, as far as I remmember. It was such a wonderful gate... maybe the gate to myself. The pictures was awesome. But there was no chance to buy dices, but we made it from paper :) All the set!! :)
ReplyDeleteThat's awesome !! If you can't get them make it up !!
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