chromaticknight wrote in Recent Fun Finds:I didn’t know they made a “big box” version of this until recently.
Found it while looking thru the TSR archive.

Is it European with A4 paper size?


-SKA

dbartman wrote in Recent Fun Finds:It was just an oversized box.

Yep

Mine came with a couple extra items:

dbartman wrote in Recent Fun Finds:Whoa!

Yep. Heady days, those, when the new owners announced they would be bringing back everything cool to D&D that had been lost over time. The box illustration has been cropped, but the whole painting includes a paladin-type who looks a lot like Prince Valiant. I can't say I'm a big fan of the Prince Valiant look, but I guess it was another way of invoking the style of the fantasy-literature past.

I believe the rules were the only version of non-Advanced, pre-3e D&D to have AC which starts at 10 (instead of 9) & goes down, plus a Turn Undead roll that is 1D20 (instead of 2D6). In other words, it is written as an introduction to AD&D, rather than being its own rules system.

Recent fun find in an old boxed set:

Mail call:

chromaticknight wrote in Recent Fun Finds:Recent fun find in an old boxed set:

A price list from 1979.  Looking at a conversion from 1979 dollar amounts, I don't get the impression that the early stuff was overly expensive.  Even given their smaller print runs.

-SKA

Some interesting articles from the satanic panic days:

In a 1981 promo, Morley the Wizard leads the victims across GenCon Chasm.

(Morley c/o Dave Dimery, old of Gary's oldest friends)

ExTSR wrote in Recent Fun Finds:In a 1981 promo, Morley the Wizard leads the victims across GenCon Chasm.

Attachment:

GenCon2.jpg

(Morley c/o Dave Dimery, old of Gary's oldest friends)

That is VERY cool!