What that all adds up to is that there were a ton of D&D-related releases that I not only didn't experience or play but also never even heard of till much later. "Black-box BECMI" was one of those. Again, as I mentioned, I was into AD&D2 pretty hard and then left D&D, so BECMI was not something I paid attention too. Fast forward to the mid-late 2000s I started to discover these boxed sets. In some ways they seem so retro; a boxed set with board-game like pieces in a world edging towards glossy (and thick) hardcovers.
At a +Games Plus auction I was able to pick up these,
They are a ridiculous amount of nostalgia and I REALLY want to use them some time as the start of a pure BECMI campaign.
Well today we got two new releases in this line on DriveThruRPG, The Dragon's Den and The Goblin's Lair.
I have no idea how the scans are. The box interiors have quite a lot of pieces.
So it will be interesting to see how they scanned all of this. At $5 a piece, that is not too bad of a deal really. The "Black Box" is not available on DriveThru yet, so you will need to use the Rules Cyclopedia for these.
I don't have a campaign in mind for this at all, outside of knowing I want to use Quest for the Silver Sword as the next adventure after these. I am always a sucker for a haunted house adventure.
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I miss Games Plus. Even though I'd only go there once or twice a year while passing through Chicago.
Each time I'd spend at least two hours poking around their old merchandise looking for buried treasures, and I'd come away with a good haul.
Now I'm just too far away.
Black box D&D was one of the first three games that I ever owned. My mother bought that, HeroQuest, and The Lord of the Rings Adventure Game all at the same time. It was a good start to a hobby that has been going strong since. Having a family, buying a house, etc. did cut into my gaming a bit though. ;)
I'm afraid that they did a crap job on the scans. A lot of bad crop jobs, and a few bad renders on the files. Several of the standie sheets got there ends cropped off, loosing part or all of the end figures. Just bad.
I scan stuff from my collection, for my own personal use, all the time. And I would never do the half-ass job that who ever did this did.
Games Plus is the best game store there is. Really.
Sorry to hear about the crappy scan quality though.
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