#BECMI
I found AD&D fascinating to read from an anthropological perspective. This was pure, unfiltered Gygax and supposedly the most comprehensive vision he had for the game.

It's also nearly unplayable. After each session, I reflected on what I'd strip back. In the end, I had just recreated BECMI.
November 2, 2026 at 7:37 AM
The write up for episode 6 of ACS D&D is done.
The 5 adventurers continue exploring Castle Mistamere's basement.

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#Roleplaying #RPG #TTRPG #DND #D&D #DungeonAndDragons
October 31, 2026 at 4:38 PM
Weirdly enough I have a feeling "hirelings demand share of treasure" is a thing back in BECMI even.
October 28, 2026 at 7:30 PM
How well do various human cultures see their world? What about demi-humans? Does this affect D&D gameplay?

#TTRPG #RPG #OSR #DnD #D&D #BECMI #Mystara #Roleplaying #HobbyGaming #Fantasy #DragonMagazine #Dungeon

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October 28, 2026 at 6:08 PM
First five #TTRPG in the order I played them:

1. Vampire: The Masquerade (1st edition)
2. Amber Diceless Roleplaying
3. AD&D (2nd edition)
4. BECMI D&D (Holmes)
5. Warhammer Fantasy Roleplaying (1st edition)
My first five #TTRPG in the order I played them:

1. AD&D (single session)
2. TMNT & Other Strangeness
3. Ninjas & Superspies
4. Heroes Unlimited Revised
5. AD&D 2nd Edition

At least this is what I think it was? It was a ways back. 😅
My first five TTRPGs in the order I played them:

1. Everyone is John
2. D&D 5e
3. D&D 4e
4. Actual Cannibal Shia LaBeouf
5. Slayers
October 24, 2026 at 5:03 PM
The first 5 TRPGs I played:

1. BECMI Red Box D&D solo
2. Fighting Fantasy/CYOA series
3. BECMI D&D/AD&D2ed
[– looooong break –]
4. D&D4e
5. Star Wars: EotE

Afterwards mostly OSR/NSR
Currently soloTRPGs / nothing
1. Red Box D&D solo
2. Warlock of Firetop Mountain
3. Warhammer FRP
4. Five eeee
5. Cthulhu Dark

Then down the OSR/NSR rabbit hole
I'm not exactly sure but I think:

1 Basic D&D
2 TMNT & OS
3 Paranoia 2e
4 Heroes Unlimited
5 Chill 2e
October 25, 2026 at 7:53 AM
First five TTRPGs:
1. Dragon Warriors
2. D&D Basic (BECMI)
3. D&D 2nd Edition
4. Dungeoneer
5. Werewolf: The Apocalypse
My first TTRPGs

1. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles & Other Strangeness
2. Palladium
3. Rifts
4. D&D (Red Box)
5. Werewolf: The Apocalypse
My first 5 TTRPGs

1. D&D (back when it was original D&D and aD&D)
2. Car Wars
3. TMNT
4. Heroes Unlimited
5. Shadowrun
October 25, 2026 at 10:29 AM
My first 5 RPGs played (probably):

BECMI D&D
Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay
Marvel Superheroes
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Other Strangeness
Cyberpunk 2020
My first 5 RPGs played:
1. D&D
2. MERP
3. AD&D (2d edn)
4. Cyberpunk 2020
5. Vampire (1st edn)
My first 5 RPGs played:

1. D&D
2. AD&D
3. Gamma World
4. Traveller
5. The Fantasy Trip

(I think that list is correct. It's been a while.)
October 24, 2026 at 5:32 PM
Got a lot of affection for BECMI as it was my first and the Known World (Mystara) is a great setting but yeah I doubt I would play it again
October 25, 2026 at 8:27 AM
My first five TTRPGs in the order I played them

1. Mechwarrior (the TTRPG for Battletech)
2. Marvel Super Heroes
3. Red Box/BECMI D&D
4. Star Frontiers
5. GURPS
My first 5 TTRPGs in the order I played them (I think)

1. Red Box D&D
2. Marvel Superheroes
3. Robotech (Palladium Books)
4. RIFTS (Palladium Books)
5. WEG's d6 Star Wars (#1 in my heart)
My first 5 TTRPGs, in the order I played them:

1. Red Box Basic Dungeons & Dragons.
2. Fighting Fantasy Introductory RPG.
3. Traveller.
4. Star Wars D6 RPG 1st edition.
5. MERP.
October 24, 2026 at 2:17 PM
My first 5 TTRPGs are all very 80s:

1: D&D (BECMI)
2: Marvel Super Heroes (TSR)
3: DC Heroes (Mayfair)
4: Heroes Unlimited (1E)
5: uhhh Gamma World?
Mine first 5 RPGs are pretty boring:
1. D&D 3.5
2. Shadowrun 4e
3. GURPS (Discworld, so 3e?)
4. Star Wars (WotC d20)
5. Feng Shui 1e
My first 5 TTRPGs, in the order I played them:

1. D&D Red Box (1983 Mentzer art cover)
2. D&D 3rd Ed (2000, into 3.5)
3. D&D 4th Edition (original circa 2009)
4. Savage Worlds 2nd Edition
5. Delta Green (not sure of the edition, played in 2011)
October 24, 2026 at 2:21 PM
1. Advanced Fighting Fantasy
2. D&D Red Box (BECMI era)
3. D&D 3rd
4. Feng Shui
5. Iron Heroes
My first 5 TTRPGs, in the order I played them:

1. Marvel Superheroes Advanced Set (TSR 1986)
2. Star Wars: The Roleplaying Game (WEG 1987)
3. Middle Earth Roleplaying System (ICE 1984)
4. Our homebrew thing (Us 1992)
5. Dungeons & Dragons (TSR 1991 -- black boxed set)
October 24, 2026 at 1:41 PM
My first five ttrpgs in order (probably)

1. D&D- type things (BECMI, AD&D 2e and 1e - yes that order)
2. Interstellar (SF homebrew)
3. Paranoia 2e
4. Cyberpunk 2020
5. Aliens Adventure Game (1991)

Interesting side fact - I'm not particularly keen to go back to any of them. Nostalgia. - bah!
October 24, 2026 at 2:57 PM
First 5 RPGs:
D&D (BECMI)
AD&D
Lone Wolf gamebooks (counts because I say so)
Paranoia!
AD&D 2nd edition

I'm old.
First five pen-and-paper RPGs (so ruling out cRPGs)
Mage: The Ascension
D&D 3.5
Werewolf: The Apocalypse
(my own d10-system based high fantasy homebrew)
Vampire: The Masquerade
D&D 5e
My first five RPGs
Dungeons and Dragons Fourth Edition
Pathfinder 1st edition
Dungeons and Dragons Fifth edition (including play tests)
Planet Mercenary
One of the Hunters don't remember which one
October 26, 2026 at 2:34 AM
My first 5 RPGs in the order I played/ran them (I think… it's a long time ago)

BECMI D&D
AD&D 1e (orange spine)
Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay
GURPS
Cyberpunk 2020
My first 5 RPGs in the order I played/ran them :

AD&D 2nd edition
Rolemaster 2nd edition
Spacemaster 1st edition
Champions 3rd edition
Mage 1st edition
My first 5 RPGs in the order I played/ran them:

1. ALIENS Adventure Game.
2. Deadlands
3. CONSPIRACY X.
4. DnD (2e)
5. Vampire the Masquerade (2e).

There was also LARPing, CCGs and such in there.
October 24, 2026 at 3:03 AM
What were my first 5 TTRPGs?
1. Basic D&D (BECMI)
2. AD&D 2nd Edition
3. Champions/HERO System 4th Edition
4. Vampire the Masquerade 2nd Edition
5. GURPS 2nd Edition
1. Basic D&D, supplemented by White Box supplementary kipple
2. AD&D (original, as it came out)
3. Metamorphosis Alpha
4. Traveller (original)
5. There is no 5.
My first five RPGs played (I think):

1. White box D&D
2. Holmes Basic D&D
3. AD&D (1st ed)
4. Villains & Vigilantes
5. Champions
October 24, 2026 at 9:09 PM
My first 5 TTRPGs, in the order I played them:

1. BECMI
2. AD&D
3. MERP
4. Call of Cthulu
5. Runescape
October 24, 2026 at 6:47 PM
My first five ttrpgs in the order I played them:

1. Star Wars, West End Games version.
2. Dungeons & Dragons, BECMI version (1e).
3. Mage: the Ascension.
4. Runequest.
5. Call of Cthulhu.

...and that still puts me in the late 90s, with GURPS being next up. And then D&D 3.5 after that...
My first five ttrpgs in the order I played them:

1. Warhammer Fantasy RPG
2. Shadowrun 2e
3. Vampire: the Masquerade
4. Earthdawn
5. DnD 3.5

First 4 in the 90s, last one in 2006
My first five ttrpgs in the order I played them:

1. Vampire: the Masquerade
2. Demon: the Fallen
3. Changeling: the lost
4: Werewolf: the apocalypse
5: d&d

(4 and 5 might be flipped it was so long ago now but the rest are for certain)
October 25, 2026 at 5:49 AM
Every time you mention BECMI I think of BESM.
October 25, 2026 at 12:11 AM
My first 5 TTRPGs, in the order I played them:

1. D&D BECMI
2. Star Wars WEG
3. D&D 2nd Ed
4. Tales from the Floating Vagabond
5. Traveller

Oh. That explains a LOT.
My first 5 TTRPGs, in the order I played them:

1. AD&D 2nd Edition
2. TMNT and Other Strangeness / Palladium
3. Marvel Superheroes
4. GURPS
5. D&D 3.5

This is going back a while, so the details are fuzzy around the first 4. Probably missing some.
My first 5 TTRPGs, in the order I played them:

1. Advanced Fighting Fantasy
2. Warhammer Fantasy Role Play
3. AD&D
4. TMNT&OS / Palladium
5. GURPS? I was playing loads of games by then so unsure of order.
October 24, 2026 at 11:14 AM
My first 5 RPGs

D&D (BECMI)
2300AD
AD&D (2nd Edition)
Call of Cthulhu
Rolemaster Standard System
My first 5 RPGs

D&D (B/X)
Traveller
Stormbringer
Champions
James Bond 007
My first 5 RPGs

D&D
Traveler
Gamma World
RuneQuest
Paranoia
October 24, 2026 at 6:25 AM
My first TTRPGs, on the order I played them:
1. D&D BECMI
2. AD&D 2nd Edition
3. WHFRPG 1st edition
4. Call of Cthulhu 4th Edition
5. RIFTS (that was 100% a fever dream)
My first TTRPGs, in the order I played them:
1. Traveller
2. Beyond the Supernatural
3. WHFRP
4. Judge Dredd RPG
5. Shadowrun
My first 5 TTRPGs, in the order I played them:

1. Advanced Fighting Fantasy
2. D&D Expert Set
3. WFRP (1st edition)
4. Vampire: The Masquerade
5. Call of Cthulhu
October 24, 2026 at 11:03 AM
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October 24, 2026 at 6:55 PM