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D&D Basic Set Rulebook (B/X ed.) (Basic)
 
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D&D Basic Set Rulebook (B/X ed.) (Basic)
Publisher: Wizards of the Coast
by Diego V. d. S. [Verified Purchaser]
Date Added: 11/29/2024 12:17:52

It's readable. Worth a shot. The editing is terrible compared to todays standard, but doable.



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[5 of 5 Stars!]
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D&D Basic Set Rulebook (B/X ed.) (Basic)
Publisher: Wizards of the Coast
by Samuel [Verified Purchaser]
Date Added: 10/03/2024 03:32:17

Fantastic, classic ruleset but B/X Basic needs to be on POD. Cannot understand why Expert is available as POD but not Basic!

WOTC needs to bring consistency on this front, especially given how most other classic DnD editions have multiple POD options available for core rules and additional modules.



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D&D Basic Set Rulebook (B/X ed.) (Basic)
Publisher: Wizards of the Coast
by A customer [Verified Purchaser]
Date Added: 09/25/2024 21:41:07

I remember 1981 like it was yesterday! AD&D was amazing but also complex and intimidating! This rulebook I believe to be the best D&D rulebook ever created. It had enough rules to play D&D but also flexibility for the DM because the complexity was left out of the system. Can we please get a POD of this please?



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[5 of 5 Stars!]
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D&D Basic Set Rulebook (B/X ed.) (Basic)
Publisher: Wizards of the Coast
by Jose J. [Verified Purchaser]
Date Added: 05/25/2024 01:29:25

Great set rules, with really easy explanation to attract new gamers. If you want to introduce RPG to new players, this system is elegant, simple, and functional (but remember, you'll need to rule sometimes, because it has not a rule for every situation). In my opinion, just one problem -- the interior cover. You have and index, but the scan quality is bad, and if you print it, it shows. But the cover and the interior art are great.



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[4 of 5 Stars!]
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D&D Basic Set Rulebook (B/X ed.) (Basic)
Publisher: Wizards of the Coast
by Rob [Verified Purchaser]
Date Added: 10/15/2023 14:27:35

I purchased this a while ago. I love it. However, why is the Expert set available on POD, but not this version? Seems like both would be a good thing to have on POD.



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D&D Basic Set Rulebook (B/X ed.) (Basic)
Publisher: Wizards of the Coast
by Joseph H. [Verified Purchaser]
Date Added: 03/15/2023 00:19:30

This book, coupled with Cook's Expert Rulebook provides a fully fleshed out game that will provide you with years of adventure. Moldvay and Cook's Basic and Expert rules (B/X) are among the most widely reproduced rules by retro games publishers.

There is no shortage of adventures for this system as every year more and more are being published by third-party creators.



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[5 of 5 Stars!]
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D&D Basic Set Rulebook (B/X ed.) (Basic)
Publisher: Wizards of the Coast
by James [Verified Purchaser]
Date Added: 12/28/2022 08:02:47

The quintessential D&D. You want streamlined, simple and easy rules? This is it!

Spend more time imagining, less time with nuts and bolts!



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[5 of 5 Stars!]
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D&D Basic Set Rulebook (B/X ed.) (Basic)
Publisher: Wizards of the Coast
by John C. [Verified Purchaser]
Date Added: 08/07/2022 06:03:53

How can I not give this five stars?! It wasn't the first RPG I played (that honour goes to Runequest) but the boxed version of this book was the first I owned. It was the start of a lifetime of adventure and I still love the slight whiff of DIY punk spirit that clings to the B/X edition - that feeling that if these guys can do this, so can you and that everything and anything is suddenly possible. This is a kobold, this another, this is a third. Now make a dungeon...



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D&D Basic Set Rulebook (B/X ed.) (Basic)
Publisher: Wizards of the Coast
by Robert M. [Verified Purchaser]
Date Added: 10/10/2021 06:20:06
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B/X Dnd was the gateway game for many. It took the brilliant mess that was Original DnD, the purple prose ideas from ADnD and distilled the game down to a superb set of simple rules. Great artwork, decent layout, cheap entry price. Probably the most accessable of all the versions of DnD. This year marks it being 40 years old and I still have an original boxset, bought the pdfs on Drivethrurpg and even grabbed loads of OSR clones of the B/X system. If you want to play DnD you can't go far wrong with these rules from 1981. My Adnd campaign that ran for 6 years was actually B/X with the PHB and modules from both basic and advanced. The system could handle it and gave me thousands of hours of fun, stories and friendship. Best £10 ever spent, so getting if off here is even more bang for your bucks!

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D&D Basic Set Rulebook (B/X ed.) (Basic)
Publisher: Wizards of the Coast
by Nicolas L. [Verified Purchaser]
Date Added: 04/03/2020 11:29:38

All things considered, the quality of the scan is great, the clarity of the images, are more than I could have hoped for. I’m very pleased with the final product, only wish that this and other classic mods/classic booklets were available in soft/hard cover print, and not just as a PDF.



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D&D Basic Set Rulebook (B/X ed.) (Basic)
Publisher: Wizards of the Coast
by Timothy B. [Featured Reviewer]
Date Added: 11/04/2019 22:39:37

Christmas 1981 will forever go down in my memory as the one where everything changed. I was in Junior High and had been playing D&D for a about two years, off and on. I had read the Monster Manual and I had a copy, badly xeroxed, of the Holmes Basic set. Christmas though was the turning point. I got two box sets that year; the Ballantine Books boxed set of Lord of the Rings and the "magenta" Basic Set. Inside was finally my own book, not a copy of someone else's book. I had my own dice (finally!) and a complete adventure. I devoured that book. Cover to cover. Every page was read and read over and over.

A lot of people talk about "the Red Box". My Red Box was magenta and had Erol Otis on the cover. For me this was the start of what became "my" D&D. Not someone else's game, but my own.

In 1981 I felt fairly proficient D&D. But with Holmes D&D I always felt like there was something I was missing. I only learned later of the "Little Brown Books" and how "Basic" actually came about.

The Moldvay Basic set had almost everything I ever needed for a game. Plenty of classes and races. More monsters than I expected (it had dragons!!) and what then felt like tons of spells. I made dozens of characters, some that saw actual game play, but I didn't care, for me it was the joy of endless possibilities. And that was just in the first couple of dozen pages.

Everything I know about exploring a dungeon, checking for traps, carrying holy water and 10' pole began here. I learned that ghouls can cause paralysis (unless you were an elf!) and that zombies always attacked last in the round. I learned Thouls were a magical cross-breed between a hobgoblin troll and ghoul. No I still have no idea how they are made. I got to meet Morgan Ironwolf herself. There was a sample adventure in the book, but I never really looked over. I don't think anyone did. It was called the Haunted Keep by the way.

This magenta colored box with strange art on the cover also had other prizes. There inside was my first set of real D&D dice. No more raiding board games for six-siders, though I learned that they were properly called "d6s". I had a set of blue dice with a white crayon to color them in. They are not great dice, even then I knew. But they were mine and that is all that mattered.

I want to pause here a second and come back to that art. Lets look at the cover again. A woman casting a spell, a man with a spear. Fighting some sort of water dragon (that didn't even appear in the rules!). But look how awesome it is. Do you need to know anything else? No. They are fighting a dragon! That box is the reason so many gamers fell in love with the art of Erol Otis. Inside are some equally important names; Jeff Dee, James Roslof, David LaForce and Bill Willingham. They gave this D&D a look that was different than AD&D. I love that art in AD&D, but in this book that art was just so...timeless. It was D&D.

In that box was also the Keep on Borderlands. I don't think I need to go into detail there. We have all been to the keep. We have all taken that ride out along the road that would take us to that Caves of Chaos. Nevermind that all these creatures, who should by all rights be attacking each other, never really did anything to me. They were there and they were "Chaotic" and we were "Lawful". That was all we needed to know back then.

The Moldvay Basic set was more than just an introductory set to D&D. It was an introduction to a hobby, a lifestyle. The rules were simply written and organized. They were not simple rules, and re-reading it today I marvel that we all conquered this stuff at age 10-11. It may have only covered the first 3 levels of character growth, but they were a quality 3.

I picked up the Expert Set for my birthday in 1982. Bought it myself, and for the longest time that was all I needed. Eventually I did move on to AD&D. I also discovered those Little Brown Books and even picked up my own real copy of Holmes Basic. I love those game and I love playing them still, but they never quite had the same magic as that first time of opening up that box and seeing what treasures were inside. I did not have to imagine how my characters felt when they had discovered some long lost treasure. I knew.

Today I still go back to Tom Moldvay's classic Basic book. It is my yardstick on how I measure any OSR game. Almost everything I need it right there. Just waiting for me.

Time to roll up some characters and play.

64 pages plus cover. Marbleized dice and crayon not included.



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D&D Basic Set Rulebook (B/X ed.) (Basic)
Publisher: Wizards of the Coast
by Chris L. [Verified Purchaser]
Date Added: 05/25/2019 11:16:36

The product description spoecifically says:"This edition is thus the "magenta box," to differentiate it from the "red box" edition that would follow in 1983."

It's not. it's a red box edition and only goes to level 3.



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D&D Basic Set Rulebook (B/X ed.) (Basic)
Publisher: Wizards of the Coast
by Rudy C. [Verified Purchaser]
Date Added: 09/30/2018 19:11:32

The basic version of D&D, takes you all the way up to 3rd level. If you buy this book, definitely consider getting the Expert book as well (hence the name B/X or Basic/Expert). This book originally was meant to be an introduction into AD&D, however it was so successful that TSR decided to give "basic D&D" its own product line. Overall a great purchase if you're into OSR.



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D&D Basic Set Rulebook (B/X ed.) (Basic)
Publisher: Wizards of the Coast
by Tim S. [Verified Purchaser]
Date Added: 05/15/2018 23:05:05

Searchable which is a major plus. Wish it was available as a POD (saddle stitched of course!) Then, I could put my original safely back in its box.



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D&D Basic Set Rulebook (B/X ed.) (Basic)
Publisher: Wizards of the Coast
by Miranda S. [Verified Purchaser]
Date Added: 01/20/2017 22:32:04

This is the rule book I had when I was a child. It's easy to understand, has great examples to help you on your way, and it's still good all these years later. I taught my kids using this book and they hve both designed their own dungeons from it. That meant the original was getting a bit tatty which is why it was so great to be able to buy an elecronic version!



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