commandercrud
Hero
Holmes edition. Yep. It's great. But BECMI is best.
We played this, but it had a blue box iirc.
It was good, but then MM and then PHB AD&D came out, and we never went back to playing this. I wouldn't want to play it now. If I recall, you were limited to 4th or 5th level? That was a deal killer for us.
Played it when I was 12, loved it. Have no interest in playing it again.
Didn't realise you were referring to the 1977 Holmes edition.
edit: Ah! nvm, this is the pre-B/X Basic. Wow, still confusing to me, heh. My answer in the poll stands, though.
Yeah, things got really complicated in the early days. It's hard to keep all of these different editions straight, even with dates and pictures of the cover. Lots of folks remember these editions under different names, or with incorrect names, or in piecemeal with other versions.When my brothers and I and our best friend got into D&D we didn't have anyone to teach us. So we gathered the blue box, 1e MM, 1e PHB, and some Arduin Grimoire dungeons and played with those not really knowing they were different things.