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Post Posted: Sat Oct 04, 2008 12:45 am 
 

I have a question to ask the forum about the 1st print basic set.

Did a version come out with a blank (completely white) box bottom. I was just looking at mine and the box bottom is indeed blank! Everything else is there  

Is my set incomplete?

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Post Posted: Sat Oct 04, 2008 4:42 am 
 

you're one of the few lucky ppl owner of a "Really Real White box (end)"! :D

...seriously, dont know about your version...


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Post Posted: Sat Oct 04, 2008 5:37 am 
 

Mine are not blank..only thing I can think of if it fits would be the EotPT box.  Not sure if TSR put out any other box set with a blank bottom around that size.

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Post Posted: Sat Oct 04, 2008 10:11 am 
 

Yes, there are a couple other games that had white bottom boxes - Dungeon! also comes to mind.

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Post Posted: Sat Oct 04, 2008 10:26 am 
 

Mine also has a plain white bottom.


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Post Posted: Sat Oct 04, 2008 11:11 am 
 

bombadil wrote:Mine also has a plain white bottom.


Does this mean we have a new printing perhaps?


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Post Posted: Sat Oct 04, 2008 11:14 am 
 

bombadil wrote:Mine also has a plain white bottom.


That's a little too much personal informtation... :oops:

  


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Post Posted: Sat Oct 04, 2008 3:20 pm 
 

Jeff, what are the contents of your box?


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Post Posted: Sun Oct 05, 2008 1:58 am 
 

bombadil wrote:Jeff, what are the contents of your box?


Right now there is a copy of the rulebook and a B1.  I have the Geos and M&T somewhere I am sure.  I know the B1 didn't come with it but I stuck one in there anyway :)


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Post Posted: Sun Oct 05, 2008 10:18 am 
 

Blackmoor wrote:
Right now there is a copy of the rulebook and a B1.  I have the Geos and M&T somewhere I am sure.  I know the B1 didn't come with it but I stuck one in there anyway :)


I guess the question is "Did anyone remember purchasing a Basic Box with a plain white bottom?"  Because if not perhaps the sets out there with the white bottom were Frankensteined from other games from the same period.  I've found all sorts of crazy mixtures of tops and bottoms during the years.

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Post Posted: Fri Oct 24, 2008 3:35 pm 
 

Blackmoor wrote:
Right now there is a copy of the rulebook and a B1.  I have the Geos and M&T somewhere I am sure.  I know the B1 didn't come with it but I stuck one in there anyway :)


Mine has the rulebook and the M&T.  Do we know that it came with the Geos, this being a true first print set and all? (only half-kidding.  seriously, if this is a predecessor to the 1st print, should it have come with the geos or not?)


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Post Posted: Fri Oct 24, 2008 9:07 pm 
 

I think Lankhmar, Dungeon!, Little Big Horn, and William the Conqueror all had those white bottoms in their earliest printings, and IIRC they're all c. 1975-1976 too.  I don't own LBH, so I can't confirm that one.  I don't recall the white box bottoms extending into 1977 for other box sets, though.  Perhaps it was left over stock, perhaps it's a Frankenstein??


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