Comments on: Why Play Red Box D&D?

By: Fail Squad Games

Fail Squad Games — Fri, 01 Dec 2017 15:38:42 +0000

In reply to Anonymous. Frank Mentzer told me that when he came to visit a convention in Italy, most folks thought he was the creator of D&D because of the red box.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 29 Nov 2017 05:31:06 +0000

Hi, in Italy the Red Box was the first D&D edition ever arrived,the one which made a lot of people start to play, it’s still very beloved and very used by tons of players in Italy.

By: Lloyd m

Lloyd m — Fri, 10 Nov 2017 16:07:10 +0000

In reply to smokestackjones. Oivey. I forgot LL kept that. I will edit. It was earlier boxes tart separated them.

By: Jeffrey Webb

Jeffrey Webb — Fri, 10 Nov 2017 16:06:22 +0000

Red Box is the edition I played first at the tender age of 11, and it’s the edition I used to to teach my son and goddaughters D&D, though they have since tinkered with other games and other editions. I heartily agree with your assertion that Red Box was and remains a superlative entry point to D&D, and that the BECMI edition as a whole can be all a gamer ever needs for decades of gaming fun.

By: smokestackjones

smokestackjones — Fri, 10 Nov 2017 15:21:22 +0000

Hi Lloyd. Great post as always. I love the way you can take something that’s been written about ad infinitim and boil it down to why you should play Red Box. Bravo.

Now a couple of things: The RC doesn’t address separate Race and Class and is strictly Race AS Class. Slo, Labyrinth Lord is also strictly Race as Class IF you’re just using the core LL rules. If you want to do separate Race and Class they break it down in the Advanced Edition Companion (a book I highly recommend using with core LL – in Matt’s games we’ve used BOTH and had a great time).

-Glen