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Introduction to Advanced Dungeons & Dragons Game
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Published January 1, 1997
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February 20, 2020
Oh man, the days of THAC0 and a lower armor class being better... I picked this box set up years ago super cheap on eBay for the nostalgia factor, and never really intended to play AD&D again. I just liked having it on my roleplaying shelf next to my Planescape and Dark Sun stuff. Fast forward a decade and now I've got a son who is getting big into dice and card games, so I pulled this out to see what he'd think.
He's too young to really grasp the rules fully, but he loved the giant full color maps that spread across the table, and was a big fan of looking through the cards to pick a character (he went with Beldar Ironfist). The minis are pretty basic, but get the job done, and I really like what they did here with the monster tokens. They come as little cardboard cutouts that fold into a triangle shape so they stand on their own and don't need any extra bases.
The audio CD (my son had no idea what this was and insisted it was a Blu-Ray movie that had something wrong with it) explaining how AD&D works is wildly cheesy and goofy, but that's not really a bad thing. The world's shitty enough right now, so maybe kids seeing roleplaying can be silly fun and doesn't have to be grimdark horror might not be such a terrible idea.
He's too young to really grasp the rules fully, but he loved the giant full color maps that spread across the table, and was a big fan of looking through the cards to pick a character (he went with Beldar Ironfist). The minis are pretty basic, but get the job done, and I really like what they did here with the monster tokens. They come as little cardboard cutouts that fold into a triangle shape so they stand on their own and don't need any extra bases.
The audio CD (my son had no idea what this was and insisted it was a Blu-Ray movie that had something wrong with it) explaining how AD&D works is wildly cheesy and goofy, but that's not really a bad thing. The world's shitty enough right now, so maybe kids seeing roleplaying can be silly fun and doesn't have to be grimdark horror might not be such a terrible idea.
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